Sensational Snacks 13, The Australian Edition!

Australia.

Everyone knows the country but few know the country. Australia is a strange and dangerous place where shit can get quite crazy from spiders that eat goddamn birds, sharks in every body of fucking water it seems with a grudge against humanity, torso's wrapped in Saran wrap found in the Outback and the land being 'City', 'City', 'City' and then a whole lot of The Great Australian Fuck All (Outback).

Australia also shares water supply with Japan and nothing makes this fact more obvious than the craziness that comes out of Australia, not just crazy.. Just.. Purely beyond batshit crazy. Batman's level of crazy has nothing on Australia, Batman's level of crazy is fucking childs play.

I should rephrase this too and state that Australia shares a water supply with Japan when we actually bother to drink water. Sporting and boasting a food industry that has produced Vegemite, the bastard off-spring of lager.. A literal food-stuff created second hand to the brewing of alcohol it's a little bit of a fucked up list of priorities.

Let's see.. Alcohol, alcohol, shelter, alcohol and food.. Yup.. Seems about proper..

It's virtually impossible then with Australia being what it is that the country wouldn't produce some of the coolest, best and sometimes most frightening shit. It's in this spirit and knowledge that we bring you Sensational Snacks 13, the Australian Edition!


Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs:

As if the list of priorities weren't enough the insanity of this offering should be enough to prove indisputably that there's something odd in the water supply's of Australia and Japan. Take a look at this product, a bag of delicious Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs, introduced in the 1970s it's a caramelized and ready-to-eat popcorn, pretty much identical to the American Cracker Jack but it's not really the food-stuff that makes this sensational or crazy, it's the goddamn mascot.

This is a fucking crazy happy-fun-time smiley man with a clearly psychotic disposition surrounded by vivid, bright and surreal colours and miniature explosions.. Not to mention tell-tale spiked blue hair that points all over the goddamn place with enough sharpness to the points to give a Super Saiyajin a run for their money.

The packaging was actually different up until the late 1980s and featured more of an 'acid trip' and M.C Escher surrealism instead of the crazy anime freak goddamn bright ass colours but I kind of like the new packaging myself.

Tim Tams:

First introduced into the market in 1964, Tim Tams are an Australian staple snack and are basically Chocolate Biscuits or 'Cookies' as Americans would classify them and are goddamn delicious, spectacular and definitely sensational. They're surprisingly enough something that I could probably find if I had the chance to look hard enough because through Pepperidge Farm the little Biscuits have been introduced to the U.S. and are evidently available in many grocery stores and super-markets. I've officially got to keep my eye out and start looking for these because I fucking love Tim Tams.

Each Biscuit is extremely sweet but not too overbearingly sweet to be enjoyable with a thick layer of Chocolate between each Malted Biscuit Wafer that breaks up with a thick and smooth consistency perfectly complimented by the delicious Chocolate Frosting inside that is a bit bumpy almost as if it were made from Milo to my opinion.

Tim Tams are not to be missed if you have the chance to try them especially if you're from the U.S. because they're not a Biscuit that you've probably ever had before, they're better and they're both amazing and truly sensational.

They are some times marketed in the U.S. under the name "Arnott's Original".

Loving and caring.. And the bitch in this commercial used as the hand model has goddamn murder nails. AWESOME!

UDL Alcopop:

This is UDL Cola, otherwise known as 'Alcopop', Alcopop being a colloquial term describing a pre made flavoured alcoholic beverage and for all intensive purposes, this is soda that you can buy from your local market that has goddamn booze in it right off the bat. That's right, booze 'n soda, sensational and something I think only Australia would commonly do.

UDL was introduced in 1965 largely as an unprofessional venture, sold in recycled glass bottles by two Australian men currently distributed professionally today by United Distributors Limited, AKA UDL.

Today's flavours include but are not limited to Scotch Whiskey and Cola, Sambuca and Cola, Ouzo and Cola, Vodka, Lemon, Lime and Soda, Vodka, Lime and Soda, Vodka and Orange, Vodka and Passionfruit, Vodka and Pineapple Crush, Gin and Bitter Lemon, Gin and Tonic, Vodka and Raspberry and Vodka and Green Apple.

FUCK OFF AMERICA BECAUSE AUSTRALIANS KNOW HOW TO DRINK! And never never challenge an Australian to a drinking game, you will fucking lose and may well die.

Boozed pop? Sensationally awesome. Goddamn rippa.

Dinner:

Tonight's dinner in spite of several hardships and pretty much everything that could have gone wrong going wrong while I was cooking I managed to recover and salvage, tonight's dinner is what I call Neko Baga (Cat Burger) and is an Asian inspired Japanese style burger with a molten cheese core and an Asian Sweet and Sour Red Sauce (home made), a side of Fried Potato disks and a Raspberry Pretzel Anpan (Sweet Roll)

All I have to say is originally I felt that with the number of things that went wrong this dinner was doomed but I managed to pull it back and it actually came out looking pretty amazing, I can say I'm very proud of the turn around.

James also enjoyed this quite a bit so that helps too!