Comments on: Wacky food items in Hawaii

Wacky food items in Hawaii

mathowie — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:25:56 -0800

"The sardines swim upstream through a river of tomatoes and hot, dangerous chilis." Cardhouse takes us on a tour of the wacky things you'll find in a hawaiian grocery store.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:55:58 -0800

wacky haoles and their internets.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:58:11 -0800

Gotta love Cardhouse.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:59:17 -0800

now not only am I trapped at work, I'm starving! smooth move, ex-lax.

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:40:53 -0800

"Baked in Hawaii since 1921?" I'm surprised those cookies aren't little wafers of carbon. :::rimshot:::

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:02:16 -0800

It looks like they mostly went to tourist friendly stores for their photo essay because, frankly, they didn't even touch the tip of the iceberg as far as our local food products go. I mean, if they'd just made it to a crack seed store... That being said, I've lived and eaten in dozens of cities and, hands down, food in Hawaii is the best. Seriously. No question. Best food in the whole entire world and I'll fight anyone who says different.

By: gompa

gompa — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:06:10 -0800

This one made me laugh out loud: This is the only ice cream in the history of the universe that has a comb-over. And all of this reminded me of this place called NewProductWorks in Michigan - which used to be called the New Product Showcase & Learning Center and used to be in Ithaca, NY. I visited it for journalistic reasons awhile ago when it was still in Ithaca, and the "showcase" part was like Limbo's supermarket. Check out some of their Favorite Failures. And do scroll down to read about Gerber's Singles, a mercifully short-lived line of strained foods for adults. Finally there's a chicken madeira you can eat through a straw!

By: naxosaxur

naxosaxur — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:30:16 -0800

"Crumpets? Hawaii? Crumpets?" (I was floored by this non sequitur).

By: tss

tss — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:37:58 -0800

coco-nuts

By: jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:04:14 -0800

"My cookies are more macho than I am." They are!

By: substrate

substrate — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:12:03 -0800

I spent a little over a month in Hawaii and got addicted to guava, pineapple and a fruit I forgot the name of that looks very odd. This coming from somebody who's ordinarily a carnivore. I do remember that spam was ubiquitous though!

By: LairBob

LairBob — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:25:22 -0800

If you haven't tried li hing mui, you ain't tried sh*t. Go ahead. Order some. And then post us some pictures of your face while you try it for the first time. Seriously, though, as someone who lived there for four years, this is funny, but it's also juvenile, just because it totally misses Joey M's point. Actually, his point is only half-right, because not only does Hawaii have some of the best food in the whole damn world, but when you're eating it, you're living in F**ING PARADISE!!! I've lived in Paris and NYC, and I love to cook and eat, so I'm not kidding--till you've tried ahi poke, fresh opakaka right off the grill, a heaping paniolo breakfast from King's Bakery, or a loco moko from the truck at Sandy's, you just don't know what you're missing. So yes...ha ha ha...there are a lot of "naif" product designers making cartons in Hawaii. But you know what? All the same cultural characteristics that contribute to the wacky packaging--like cultural diversity, and an insulation from mainstream branded culture--make for some great food. Chow down on some spam musubi (grilled spam on a rice patty, wrapped in seaweed), and then tell me Hawaii doesn't know food.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:50:50 -0800

I love you LairBob and I want to have your Spam musubi eating children. If only I had a uterus.

By: LairBob

LairBob — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:52:45 -0800

Ho, brah...I so flattered.

By: Songdog

Songdog — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:08:05 -0800

OK, that packaging is pretty funny, but I guarantee you I could find stuff just as entertaining in a grocery store in New Jersey. And the food in Hawaii (like pretty much everything else in Hawaii) is excellent.

By: paddbear

paddbear — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:14:30 -0800

Eh. "Let's make funny comments about someone else's food/books/music/whatever". That's so 1998.