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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This is just something personal to me, but I am originally from the southern Louisiana area and now I live in D.C.
I have now NONE of the foods I grew up with.
I asked a guy at a restaurant for Crawfish etoufee and he looked at me like I had just asked for Urainium.
—sigh—