Remarkable Retro Rations 2 & Crappy Chicken

Oh ice-pops, shaped so suggestively like.. Well.. Randy things.. Oh gummies that are shaped like PUCKERROOOOOMS! and oh strange gums that just don't make sense, I love you! You make me want to do naughty and dirty things to you, things that can only be done to the magical sounds of Mr. Barry Whites musical talent. Oh yeah, baby. Lick that ice-pop, suck that puckeroom, and gently, softly, and sensually masticate that gum (Wow does masticate ever sound like a dirtier word than it is in this context!)

We love you, Strange redolent candies and we adore you, remarkable retro rations!

It never ceases to fill me with joy when I see a product branching out into the strange domain which it was not meant originally to dabble, these products usually don't survive their companies commendable foray into the abnormal but they're almost always beloved by someone in the long run and you can always find someone that remembers them fondly. Some of them rock, some of them suck, and some of them are just.. Straaaange.. Let's see what we can drudge up, shall we?

Trix Ice-Pops:

Introduced in the 90s, this was another case of a company taking a cereal-brand and turning it into something that wasn't cereal. Much like the Chocula Pops of their time, this was an ice-pop naturally meant to taste like Trix Cereal.. NAH, YA THINK!? What? You thought it'd taste like potatoes maybe!? DURH!

Well they're meant to taste like Trix Cereal anyway, they tasted more like Lifesaver Ice-Pops which was kind of disappointing, frankly I think if they actually tasted like Trix Ice-Pops they'd be considerably better. Trix is fucking delicious cereal, a way to freeze it in a liquid-like form and make an Ice-Pop out of it would be epic. That wasn't what these were though and now it's definitely not what they are because I'm pretty sure they're gone, I haven't seen them sold for years. Shame because they weren't bad, they just weren't anything special; you could get cheaper that were just as good without the brand.

Know one thing that would be better though? If they made Ice-Pops to taste kind of like the Trix Yogurt. Trix Puddin' Pops. Tell me that doesn't make you salivate.

Soda Gum:

Wow, yea. 'The out of the ordinary soft drink', I think we're more focused on the fact that this is a really out of the ordinary gum. Who the hell makes a soda flavoured chewing gum? More than Dr. Pepper apparently as recently in the Dessert Delights poll for Extra's Dessert Delights the flavour 'Root Beer Float' won out and will be the new flavour released. Sounds weird and nasty to me like this stuff.

Whatever, though. Maybe it'll be good..

Dr. Pepper Bubble Gum was introduced in the mid 1980s and much like the Freshen Up Gum of 1975 this gum sported a strange liquid center. This shit was really weird, it was weird not because it was bad which is an extremely strange thing to be saying, I would have expected this gum to be terribad but it was actually pretty good, it amazingly tasted just like Dr. Pepper. I don't know how.

It's strange then and perhaps a little bit of a positive precursor for the possibility of the Extra Dessert Delights Root Beer Float Gum being decent that we've had a decent Root Beer Gum in the past in the extremely unexpected A&W Root Beer Gum.

Another gum in the style of the Freshen Up line, this one featured a liquid center like the Dr. Pepper and it wasn't half bad either if you were in the mood for a Root Beer. It tasted damn close to Root Beer, it was pretty damn good too.. So we already know that Root Beer is possible to emulate closely with a gum, at least that's a good sign for things to come. This one was introduced around 1983 and I can't help but think that with the increases in technology and improvements in the world and food-industry that a new Root Beer gum has to be even better by comparison.

...Right? ...Right?

..At least I hope.. I've liked all the Dessert Delight gums so far, I'd really like them not to fail me now but I have to admit while I'm on the subject, I really would have preferred to see Bananas Foster to have won the gum voting.. That or Lemon Squares..

Back on subject and in closing, the soda gum was surprisingly good for what it was, it's pretty amazing.. It's actually somewhat surprising that it was in fact discontinued, I would have expected something so good to have been more popular.. But I guess when people want a soda they might just go for a soda, not a piece of gum...

Hubba Bubba Soda:

From soda flavoured gum to gum flavoured soda, this seemed like the logical next step and product to choose in the list, out of the two I'd say this one actually has more of a 'what the fuck' factor. This I believe if I remember correctly was introduced in the mid to late 80s and ran well into the early 90s, it was a mutant pink soft-drink based off the shite they make shaved ice with and was from my opinion and memory truly vile and most foul.

Picture if you will a can, this can has bubblegum flavour.. Except it's not bubblegum flavour, it's bubblegum syrup. Not just any syrup, it's like pure extract of bubblegum syrup, sickeningly sweet, makes your teeth hurt on contact, and over powers your taste buds the first swig you take. Your stomach churns when you try to drink this and you immediately feel as if you're going to forcefully hurl the entirety of your stomach contents as this heavy and thick shite plops down and spills into your stomach.

My god this was awful.

Strangely a lot of people actually liked this shite, I can't understand this. I cannot for the life of me fathom why anyone would consider this crap good but some people did.. I mean for fucks sake it was basically snow cone flavouring syrup in a can. Who the HELL drinks snow cone flavouring syrup? Eck..


Dinner:

Eh.. I tripped up a good bit on this meal, I'm not very happy with it I gotta say.. Though James keeps reassuring me it was fine, it's not up to my standards personally and I just felt rather disenchanted and somewhat depressed with it. It's a simple Karaage (Japanese fried chicken basically) and comes with an Anpan (Sweet Roll) that burst and smashed potatoes which turned out fine themselves. The rice is pickled beet steamed rice and well.. That aside from the chicken is pretty much it..

I suppose it doesn't look that bad, it's just not perfect like my meals have been. I'm kind of mopey because of it.. Hopefully tomorrows will be better..