Cheesy Chocolate Chips from Japanese potatos, of course
BOXED BIO-TERROR!
White chocolate-covered cheese potato chips is the newest WTF product from ROYCE’. Their website describes it as “potato chip chocolate fromage buran” which is Japanese-franglais for a boxed abortion of cheesy chocolate deep-fried potato chip-like snack. The chips in the photo below tasted even worse than they look—They taste like the smell of over-ripe cheese that was deep-fried in sweaty tennis shoes that were chocolate-coated and then aged in a sack of last year’s potatoes.
Yes, yes, I know that chocolate-covered potato chips have been around for decades. However, these particular white chocolate cheesy chips are both painfully precious (at 800 yen or $8 USD for an 80g box) and especially nasty.
PS: Does anybody know why the company has misspelled their trademarked name with a spurious apostrophe at the end of ROYCE’?
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September 5th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Re, ‘ after e in Royce’. Let me see if my understanding/research is right, based on
http://www.legalwritingpro.com/articles/C15-feeling-possessive.php
’s is added to form the possessive singular of nouns, as in Royce’s chocolates.
Exceptions: Classical or biblical names, such as Moses, which take only an apostrophe: Moses’.
Justice Scalia and the New York Times style manual says:
[O]mit the s after the apostrophe when a word ends in two sibilant sounds (the ch, j, s, sh, ts or z sounds) separated only by a vowel sound: Kansas’ Governor; Texas’ population; Moses’ behalf.
However, a more modern approach says either way (just “‘” or “’s” is fine.
September 6th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Jesus Christ!!!
8 usd for a snack?!?! are they made of gold?? with 8 usd you can set up a decent party with good drinks and food here…
September 6th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Jesus Christ!!! 8 usd for a snack?!?!
Yes, Jumping Bejebus on a pogo stick!
It worked out to 40yen/38 cents per chip, which one of my charming 3Yen fans gave me.
(Yes, even an old frog like me has Japanese groupies…It’s kind of cute, if not strange that whenever a guy mets with a Japanese girl, she gives them some small present).
December 5th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Ohh really? Now that cheesy potato chocolate is news to me.