It’s July! We still have a month of Megapartying to go! Let’s start with potatoes.
As a kid, any excuse to use that wonderful thing called a “microwave” was a good one, but even without the thrill of cooking my own food like a superstar, I still would’ve adored “Micro Magic” fries.
There was a whole line of Micro Magic microwaveable foods available in the ’80s, but the fries…there was nothing on the planet like those fries. They were kind of like the fries you’d get on the hot lunch line at school, assuming you took them home in a napkin, chilled them, and nuked them back to the appropriate level of hot, oily fun. After opening the boxes, you zapped ‘em right inside the package, which served the dual purpose of making the fries taste something like cardboard and making the cardboard smell something like fries. They were crude, disgusting and absolutely delicious.
I went on a little Internet hunt that took me to the poorly translated webpages of Japan, where the Micro Magic line has evidently lived on for all of these years. I’ve never had much of an interest in world travel, but for these fries, I think I’d do it. From what I could gather, they’re pretty common over there.
I really should credit the blog I found the picture above on, but I totally lost it. Had like fifteen tabs open in Firefox, all in Japanese, and I just got overwhelmed. Sorry, mystery blog. I owe you one.
What are some of the foods you wish you could eat one more time? Answer in the comments!
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Looks like the “Locate A Kwik-E-Mart” section on the 7-Eleven website doesn’t go live until tomorrow. Assuming one of them is close enough to the revival house that’s playing Grindhouse, Gremlins AND The Goonies this coming month, I think I will end up making the trek. I’m not a Simpson’s fanatic or anything, but it’s too cool to resist.
I want the cheese pizza rolls I had when I was a kid. I can get cheese pizza rolls now, supposedly, but they’re just melted mozzerella. The one when I was a kid had like Velveeta type cheese and peppers in them. They were made by Patio and they were the best pizza rolls in the history of mankind.