A serious question about trick-or-treating

Mexican Coca Cola is better than the American shit.

There's an international market about an hour from my house, I'll go there on occasion. Everything from there is better. Cheeses from their deli, better. Meats from there deli, better. Pastries from their bakery department, better. Sausage from their meat department, better.

There's also an "American" section, ok. Whatever.

Go into the "Specific country/culture/deli/section" where that is all imported, and you sometimes need Google Translate to read the labels, that is so much better than the American version. And prices are really not that bad. Imported sausage, $6-10 per pound depending what you buy, cheeses $8-20 per, some might be more, but worth it. Depending on what you buy, it could be around 20 to 100% more than the American version or the equivalent. Some might even be three or four times more, but still worth it.

One of the best for me, is authentic chicharrones, or pork rinds. Not the over cooked, fluffy, no real flavor ones that come in a bag, but real deep fried in lard pork rinds, with meat still clinging to the rinds. Made right there in the store, not somewhere else and trucked in, but right fucking there. If you wait until a new batch is made, which is about every half hour, you can buy them by the pound, and eat them while they're still hot and steaming. And they're around $8 per pound, totally worth it, even if it was twice that.

This right here, not the crap that everyone here seems to think are "pork rinds".




One of the guys I work with, he was saying how one his favorite snacks were "pork rinds", well I had to set him straight. I have him about 1/4 pound one day, he ate the whole thing on the way home from work. He's been hooked ever since, I also gave him a package of the chorizo that the store makes there, he's hooked on that as well. He goes there once or twice a month just for the pork rinds and the chorizo.

Pretty much everyone calls him that, it's just that everyone he didn't pay to make a video for him on Fiverr leaves off the "coolly cynical sonofa" part.

I'd take that bet and go ya the step further that he's been smoking the same shitty homegrown for the past 15 years, thus providing him another way of throwing shade at anyone who dares enjoy life/high quality weed.

Ah. Those. Yes, I’ve had those. I like the American ones only a little bit better.

dafuq are those American ones? They look like "rockets" which is probably the third least popular halloween candy after candy corn and those hard toffees.

American smarties are just sweet/tarts in miniature form.

same type of thing, I guess. sweet/tarts here have that slightly soapy after taste as well as the texture of sand.

Closest thing to a Halloween thread.

*cough*Justin Trudeau*cough*

Nah. They have completely different flavors.

I hate Sweet-Tarts but Smarties are good, even the large size.

I can't believe y'all turn your nose up at different kinds of candy. My qualification is "does it have sugar."

Yeah, like I wasn't going to eat the american smarties because they were not fancy enough. Sure I had favorites, but it had sugar in it. Besides, sugar flavored chalk is good. The people who made pocky found out if you put chocolate or other sugary things on cardboard that people will eat the cardboard. It is sugar. even cocaine does not beat sugar as a drug.

I’m not picky, but I prefer fruity candy.

Bet ya' do.

But, if I don't constantly point out how people who like stuff that I don't like are dumb or otherwise flawed, how else do I make sure they know I'm better than they are?

Nah, chocolate always wins because it's chocolate...
Been a while since i had them though...

Some of those are indeed offensive, but in many cases it's more about the name of the product.

Others, well.. let's just say some people need to get a life. For fuck's sakes.

Status symbols. How will anyone know you are better than them if you do not spend lots of extra money on a brand that says I am better than you?

None of them are offensive.

Looking at that and knowing where they are manufactured and how they are trying to sell to an english market I wonder if some of that offensive language is cultural misunderstanding? Since most of the packaging is also done in places like taiwan, china, or india and the descriptions are made by people from their culture of course it is going to have areas where it is culturlly insensitive because those workers probably don't give a fuck about our cultural sensitivities just like we don't give a fuck about theirs.

This is what happens when you outsource your manufacturing to foreign countries. I am quite sure if americans made stuff to sell in asian languages things like this would happen in other countries too. It probably does.

two. two ToTs. I'm gonna have to eat all this shit myself.

Who the hell thinks it's wrong for a kid to dress up like a taco on Halloween? Some of them I get, but a taco? Would it be OK if it was a hamburger b/c that's white people food and anyone can appropriate that? LOL.

Why is dressing up as a taco wrong? I've seen hamburgers, hot dogs, bucket of popcorn, .... pretty much any food, I've seen made into a holloween costume.

ok. Just looked at the twitter post. The sombrero on the taco does kinda send the whole thing over the edge. No idea why the sheriff costume is offensive, though.

The only non-offensive one I saw was the taco one (unless the model was wearing a sombrero that Twitter decided to crop).

Edit: okay, looked again, and no.

Leave the sombrero off, kthnxz.

ACAB or something?