May
31
Food, Glorious Food.
Thu, 31/05/2007 - 21:41

This post is the beginning of a beautiful discovery of foodulations - I sense I am only scratching the surface, but there are so many conjoinulated food words...I guess companies love conjoinulations because they are so darn catchy, and who has room for all the extra syllables involved in putting two whole words on packaging?
Smoosh 'em together, and voila!
Here are some favourites:
Spam - Apparantly it's Spiced Ham..Who knew? Never eaten the shit myself, but I always assumed it meant something more along the lines of... I dunno...'spoiled ham'... Oh hell, I guess 'spiced ham' makes sense (the name, not the product itself).
Facon - While we're on dodgy meat products - it's that Fake Bacon flavour you get. Sometimes it even comes in a meat-like consistancy - or in a paste! - like in those dreadful sandwich shops in London. Oh - there's Ficken too. Don't make me explain that one.
Smint - You are familiar with those 'small mints' I assume?
Imagine the slogan without conjoinulations - "No small mint; No kiss!"
Banoffie Pie - You get the banana's, then the toffee stuff, slap it on a pie base for body, add inordinate amounts of cream - 'Banoffie Pie'.
Nespresso - As I understand, this is some sort of shitty instant coffee (Nescafe), masquerading as some sort of posh coffee (Espresso). Aiming above it's station you might say...I believe there are some sort of pod type devices involved? Don't get it really, but I can live with that.
More will be added when I think of them. Or find that little scrap of paper with scrawled notes on it.