Comments on: Funyuns With Wasabi

By: marvo

marvo — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:10:04 +0000

kimdog – I think Funyuns are in the same category as hot dogs and other sausages. I don’t know what’s in them, but all I know is that they taste good.

lightpinksheep – Wasabi-crust? Bleh! I think my tongue would hide at the back of my throat if it sensed one of those wasabi cashews coming.

By: lightpinksheep

lightpinksheep — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:27:57 +0000

i need to try this. my friend got me some wasabi cashews from trader joe’s. they are like cashews in a wasabi-crust. they are way too strong but i have built up my tolerance.

By: kimdog

kimdog — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:24:35 +0000

This has to be one of the strangest permutations of a product that I’ve ever seen. I mean, what the hell is a “funyon” in the first place. Is there actually any organic onion substance in a funyon? I doubt it. Aren’t they completely synthetic in the first place? So why they got go get all upscale with wasabi. If they wanted an interesting taste combination, they could have just doused them with gasoline. That would have been more in line with the essence of the funyon.

By: marvo

marvo — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:02:18 +0000

Webmiztris – Nope, they don’t.

Mia – Um, what about celery? It’s green and crunch.

By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:35:47 +0000

Since they aren’t green, I could dare try one. I don’t eat any green crunchy things…Same thing with those guacamole Dorito’s they came out with for awhile….Green shouldn’t crunch. It goes against everything I stand for.

By: Dawn (webmiztris)

Dawn (webmiztris) — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:46:21 +0000

icky! doesn’t sound very good….

By: marvo

marvo — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:50:29 +0000

Mellie – Oh, I’m sorry. I was looking at the Junk Food Pyramid, which also happens to be upside down.

By: Mellie Helen

Mellie Helen — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:06:27 +0000

First off, Marvo, the Funyuns would be way at the top of the food pyramid, where the least amount of our “nutrition” should come from.

Secondly: I am a wasabi fiend. My husband always shakes his head at me when I order sushi, because he knows a tear fest is in the works. I’m crying and smiling at the same time. I do this with prime rib and full strength horseradish, too. Oooooh, it hurts so good.

Third: If you still have the codex for WP 1.5, you must email it to me (it’s currently not available online). Send it over with a dollop of wasabi, please.

By: marvo

marvo — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 05:57:32 +0000

Grins – Funyuns fall into the “Foods We Shouldn’t Be Eating” food group. It’s waaay at the bottom of the food pyramid.

Toni – I’m surprised your grandpa couldn’t smell the wasabi before he put it in his mouth. The smell of wasabi also burns.

By: Toni

Toni — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:58:14 +0000

Two comments:

1.) My family and I were at a japanese buffet restaurant one time and my grandpa put this HUGE dollop of wasabi on his food. For some bizarre reason he thought it was guacamole. He took a big bite of food covered with the stuff and learned very quickly that it wasn’t guacamole. Needless to say, he spat out the food and didn’t eat the rest of it. Good thing we were at a buffet.

2.) Although my 1 1/2 years of living in Japan allowed me to be more accustomed to wasabi, I still won’t touch any wasabi flavored stuff, like the peas. I can be a wuss when it comes to spicy food. Hell, I can’t even do Spicy Cheetos. And I like Cheetos.

By: Grins

Grins — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 02:08:26 +0000

I LOVE wasabi. First tried it when I lived in Japan in the mid 80s. A dime sized dollop is a bit much though if you’re not used to it. A little wasabi goes a long way. I’d actually try the Wasabi Fung-uns but I have a feeling they don’t fall into any real food group.

By: marvo

marvo — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:45:41 +0000

Suzanne – I think if you killed a puppy (or any cute animal), cut it up, and rolled it in rice, that would be considered an “Evil Roll.”

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:50:54 +0000

A little wasabi goes a long way! I’ve never seen these funyuns you speak of! ‘But you could roll it in rice and call it an evil roll.

By: marvo

marvo — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:44:05 +0000

Melissa – I don’t know about staying off the crack. It keeps me warm at night and I enjoy the hallucinations. Also, Pepsi Blue kicked Crystal Pepsi’s ass.

Thumper – “Wasabi is evil.” You know, that would make a great t-shirt.

By: Thumper

Thumper — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:42:24 +0000

I miss Crystal Pepsi…

I don’t think I could bring myself to try the Wasabi Funyuns. A friend once sent me a bag of Wasabi Peas, and I barely touched one to my tongue before the pain started. Had I actually placed it in my mouth, I think my tongue and the roof of my mouth would have been covered in blisters, and they would have gotten infected, and I would have died.

Really.

Wasabi is evil.
;)