Just so you know. . .
If ever you are in China (interpret: open invitation!) never, and I repeat, NEVER assume that items which LOOK like onion rings in the freezer section at the Metro (import) store are in fact ONION RINGS!!!!... for if you do, you shall be sorely disappointed when after looking forward to onion rings all day, and stinking the apartment to high heaven because apparently cooking oil in China MUST smell like well, not cooking oil . . . after all that, you find, to your dismay, that they are infact NOT onion rings at all, but some mysterious substance that resembles the texture of a rubberband and tastes, like, well, A RUBBERBAND!
Had we been able to READ the language . . . this mistake would have been sweetly avoided, however in our eager excitement to find something, ANYTHING relatively american (interpret: deep fried junk food) in the freezer section . . . well, you can imagine our excitement, and yea, also our bitter disappointment upon our first taste of deep fried rubberbands.
I am debating whether or not to ASK someone who can read the package what we infact DID purchase, but i am afraid I, or someone dear to me, may be scarred for life . . . we shall see, and we'll let you know.
P.S. I must apologize, before I realized this would be a wonderful example of our great cultural ignorance, I threw out the afore-mentioned deep-fried rubberbands and they were quickly whisked off to the trash bin outside by my dutiful husband...thus, no proof in picture form that they truely LOOKED like ONION RINGS...you'll have to take my word or come on over!
6 comments:
Sorry to hear about your unfortunate food experience. :( I wonder if it was squid, but I don't think it comes in pieces as big as onion rings...or maybe it does.
Yep, I remember those things . . . I'm betting on squid, too.
I thought I taught you to clean your plate. That does not mean to the garbage can. Surely fried frog legs would sound pretty good about now.
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Ok, what part of "I didn't want to know very badly or I would have asked someone" didn't you understand? Ha Ha Ha, I guess it could have been worse.
La
But squid is pretty good, really. The frozen and fried is probably what ruined it. :)
OK. Not sure what you actually cooked but either the nasty oil and frozen rings were a bad combination, it wasn't squid, or they fix squid WAY different in China than they do in the US... because, even though squid doesn't have alot of flavor, it certainly isn't all that bad. At least not trash can worthy... but then, you DO come from a family of questionable tastes when it comes to food. (note: fried frog legs followed by beans and chocolate cake!) Ever think of making your OWN Onion Rings?? Not hard to do and I bet you can even find the right ingredients over there... I'll send you the recipie. :o)
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