Thank you, but no thank you.

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1. They meant Marinated Meat Balls. But WTF?

2. Thanks a lot, but I think I’ll pass. Looks really tempting though.

3. Hopefully I haven’t told this story before. 😛

   One of my degree requirements was a linguistics class, which I thought would be boring but turned out to be freaking awesome. I ended up doing a group project about English use in Japan and one of the things I learned is that it is very fashionable to sprinkle one’s Japanese with English words. Product names exploit this habit as well, doubling down on ones they think are extra delightful.

   So I found a news piece about this topic and the presenter showed different products, one which had manufacturers who thought the idea of running through dewy grass was romantic, delicious, exhilarating–perfect for their cookies (not biscuits). So “dew” was the name, but it being short was a con–they believed English speakers were turned off by short words–and decided to double it, the idea being the name “twice is nice” and it then became the cookie called Dew Dew.

   I don’t think it sold well.

4. From “Aquatic Products Co. Ltd.” ???

   Thanks, but I’ll pass.

5. Ok, so it should say marinated, but who’s to say what they’re “marinated,” in?
   Blargh!

6. I think they meant ruminating. Yes, beef balls ruminating.

   Lisl, good story!

7. A delicacy in Indonesia, according to Barry.

8. Cooking instructions: Boil the piss out of ’em.

9. If you were gonna have your balls cut off, you’d urinate too.

10. Carefully examine where your food comes from. You never know these days. I see more and more food products from China that I put up the sign of the cross to!
    Ya gotta look.

11. If you eat any food product that
    comes out of China, good luck.
    You will need it.

12. @The RF: Especially true for dog treats (not the kind BHO eats, the kind for pet dogs). Probably true for cats as well; don’t buy, or shoplift, any ‘food’ from Red China.

13. Mmmmm!
    Balls!
    I love to lick em, squeeze em, suck on them … well, not necessarily BEEF balls …

14. I gotta put in a pitch for my shrimper buddies.
    Those shrimp you buy, the jumbo, oxymoron, tiger shrimp from ‘Asia’.
    Grown in stagnant nasty ponds laced with antibiotics to keep them from dying in their own filth.
    I will eat a wild bug, not one raised in a bus terminal shit house.
    Enjoy them.

15. It is very racist and ethnocentric to assume that urinating is not the word meant.

16. Dew Dew cookies. Sounds yummy.

17. Nobody can eat just one.

18. Now I know why my last Chinese dinner tasted so horribly.

19. Exported to San Francisco?

20. Obama and Barney’s Frank loved to share them from time to time.

    Though Moochelle’s were still bigger than both of them combined.