I don't even know how to introduce this one.
Several different groups of us at my office have joined different snack club subscription boxes, where we get sent boxes of snack foods from other countries each month. One month was South Korea. It had ... Monkey Bongs.
They were amazing.
"This pack of corn sticks from South Korea will make you go bananas! Combining both the saltiness of a traditional corn stick and covering it with sweet, banana-flavored powder, this snack is like eating cereal anywhere, and is even better with two extra big sticks in each pack!"
I looked at the packaging, confused. There was a monkey, mouth wide open, ready to receive ... something in his mouth.
I read the english label stuck on by the snack food distributor, since I certainly couldn't read the Korean characters. "Monkey Bong Corn Stick, Banana Flavor" was ... helpful, but I still had no idea what to expect.
Was this a savory snack? A sweet one? (Spoiler: both?)
I pulled out the product. It was ... a huge corn puff! Thick girth, quite long, although it snapped in half as I did so. Oops.
It did indeed have a strange powder all over the exterior.
I thought this would be an item of novelty, quickly put in the pile of discards that we then encourage others to try, just to laugh at their facial expressions (Russian meat aspic and horseradish snacks from 3 Korochki, I'm looking at you!).
It turned out to be crazy delicious.
The stick is actually hollow, which I didn't expect.
It was super crispy, yes it tasted like corn, it was crazy light. Really, truly, just a big huge corn puff. It was actually quite fun to eat.
And then, the coating. Very, very generously coated in a powder. A sweet powder. A sweet ... banana powder. Just as advertised.
And that was awesome. Corn puffs and banana powder turn out to be a great combination. I don't understand. Another taster called it a "banana Cheeto", but, it lacked cheese, so that wasn't quite right.
I, just like that monkey on the package, devoured this, in basically two huge bites. So good. I need another.
Several different groups of us at my office have joined different snack club subscription boxes, where we get sent boxes of snack foods from other countries each month. One month was South Korea. It had ... Monkey Bongs.
They were amazing.
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| Monkey Bong Corn Stick - Banana Flavor. |
I looked at the packaging, confused. There was a monkey, mouth wide open, ready to receive ... something in his mouth.
I read the english label stuck on by the snack food distributor, since I certainly couldn't read the Korean characters. "Monkey Bong Corn Stick, Banana Flavor" was ... helpful, but I still had no idea what to expect.
Was this a savory snack? A sweet one? (Spoiler: both?)
I pulled out the product. It was ... a huge corn puff! Thick girth, quite long, although it snapped in half as I did so. Oops.
It did indeed have a strange powder all over the exterior.
I thought this would be an item of novelty, quickly put in the pile of discards that we then encourage others to try, just to laugh at their facial expressions (Russian meat aspic and horseradish snacks from 3 Korochki, I'm looking at you!).
It turned out to be crazy delicious.
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| Monkey Bong Corn Stick - Banana Flavor (Side View). |
It was super crispy, yes it tasted like corn, it was crazy light. Really, truly, just a big huge corn puff. It was actually quite fun to eat.
And then, the coating. Very, very generously coated in a powder. A sweet powder. A sweet ... banana powder. Just as advertised.
And that was awesome. Corn puffs and banana powder turn out to be a great combination. I don't understand. Another taster called it a "banana Cheeto", but, it lacked cheese, so that wasn't quite right.
I, just like that monkey on the package, devoured this, in basically two huge bites. So good. I need another.
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