Editor's note: This is one of the weirdest emails/posts we've ever received. But it's pretty awesome. Here's the full email from William Wonka Bitters of The Big Candy Apple in which he pleads for the acceptance of cheeseburger and non-cheeseburger unions. Read and be amazed.
Your glaring oversight of the introduction of the Cheeseburger variety of Combos snacks is just the latest transgression in a series of bad decisions to aggravate our already rocky relationship. It smacks of the high-minded elitist rhetoric that toppled the once mighty Democratic Party, but includes none of the populist hypocrisy that sustains the Republicans. And frankly, that Kennedy-esque picture of Ed Levine in the "About" section is condescending—we all know he's a beautiful man, enough already.
Without further ado: Should you ever wish to see Mayor McCheese again—who I'm sure you've noticed has gone missing—you must post the following review of aforementioned hamburger-inspired snacks on AHT no later than yesterday. Your failure to do so will result in the slow but thorough disassembly of the universally loved politician, his disparate limbs and organs to be blended up smoothie-thick and sold back to McDonald's as "Extra" Special Sauce.
This posting is free of charge. Should you desire the submission of future reviews of hamburger-related goods and services to fill your weekend void, I will require a packet of sugar weighing no more than 1.489 grams be deposited in the trash can at the corner of 42nd and 6th once in a fortnight. Further proof of my glorious writing skills (and photography) can be gleened from my blog, The Big Candy Apple.
The Unrequited Love of Mutant Foods
By William Wonka Bitters
As a child of mixed races—my father being Willy Wonka, my mother an Oompa Loompan prostitute—I am painfully familiar with the marginalization people of ambiguous backgrounds face. There is nothing wrong with the natural fear of something that is different, but without the requisite curiosity you risk damning a diamond in the rough to a short lifetime cloaked in obscurity.
Cheeseburger-flavored Combos snacks are one such victim of this attitude that I would like to highlight. Not unlike the love-it or hate-it cheeseburger pizza, the cheeseburger-cracker hybrids have been thrust into a cold world of high culinary standards and low morals. Have we no decency? Are the children of affectionate burgers and crackers any less a food than the foods from whose loins they have squirted?
While we may have invented the cheeseburger, it is a creature in its own right, independent and mature, worthy of the same respect we would afford any food. Let the cheeseburger procreate with other foods, I say! And let us embrace these wonderfully wacky offspring, not for the qualities we think they should bear, but for their individual contributions to the diversity of the foods we consume. Who knows—maybe two mutant foods will make a little super mutant food that can cure fat people. That, however, will only follow on our acceptance that mutant foods should be judged not on taste, but on potential.
I tried them once. They smelled and tasted kind of like McDonalds cheese burgers. I not sure if that was good for combos or bad for McDonalds? Let's think about that for a minute? Needless to say after eating them I didn't feel so great ( I had the huge bag that I bought at a 7-11) My wife and I both said we are better off sticking to the pretzel cheddar ones...
What looked good and but only tasted ok after a few handfuls... Then to concluded never again...
I tried and liked them. I also like ketchup flavored potato chips, but that's another story. The combo's are reminiscent of a McD's cheeseburger. Having not eaten a McD's cheeseburger in, oh, say years, I find myself craving one. Damn you "Cheeseburger Combos", damn you!
I love Snyders Dill Pickle potato chips. I don't like burgers but I have two kids who love them and love Combos, so I'm sure they'd like these. Hmm, how's about those dill potato chips with the combos? My youngest insists on pickles on his burgers.
@Channa: you will find these snacks fifteen paces north of the 42nd Street entrance to the unsightly PA Bus Terminal; make a left of 9 gilderblocks and step on the blue sidewalk panel three times while clucking like an Ecuadorian rooster to reveal a 7/11 wherein they can be bartered for (but cash works best)
@Anyone who liked them: I never said these were good- they're not- and you have foolishly revealed to all AHT readers your disgusting habit of lighting sticks on fire and extinguishing them on your tongue; shame on you
@Anyone who tried them: provided Karma is not laid off in the coming months I'm certain she will repay you with an appropriately insubstantial reward
Despite my best efforts, I was unable to get the Cheeseburger Combos to mate with the McDonald's french fries and large Coke, even in the presence of Barry White's sexually inviting voice. Our search for that elusive Cheeseburger Combo Combos continues...
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Your glaring oversight of the introduction of the Cheeseburger variety of Combos snacks is just the latest transgression in a series of bad decisions to aggravate our already rocky relationship. It smacks of the high-minded elitist rhetoric that toppled the once mighty Democratic Party, but includes none of the populist hypocrisy that sustains the Republicans. And frankly, that Kennedy-esque picture of Ed Levine in the "About" section is condescending—we all know he's a beautiful man, enough already.
9 Comments:
I tried them once. They smelled and tasted kind of like McDonalds cheese burgers. I not sure if that was good for combos or bad for McDonalds? Let's think about that for a minute? Needless to say after eating them I didn't feel so great ( I had the huge bag that I bought at a 7-11) My wife and I both said we are better off sticking to the pretzel cheddar ones...
What looked good and but only tasted ok after a few handfuls... Then to concluded never again...
burgerboy at 10:47AM on 10/23/08
I tried and liked them. I also like ketchup flavored potato chips, but that's another story. The combo's are reminiscent of a McD's cheeseburger. Having not eaten a McD's cheeseburger in, oh, say years, I find myself craving one. Damn you "Cheeseburger Combos", damn you!
aungeinphx at 11:58AM on 10/23/08
I much prefer the nacho flavored combos.
wunami at 12:25PM on 10/23/08
Pizzeria pretzel!
cm82 at 12:30PM on 10/23/08
Are these available only in test-markets? They're not listed on the Combos website.
Channa at 2:22PM on 10/23/08
I think I am in love! :)
not with the food as no offense but they are nasty.
love2cook at 2:22PM on 10/23/08
I love Snyders Dill Pickle potato chips. I don't like burgers but I have two kids who love them and love Combos, so I'm sure they'd like these. Hmm, how's about those dill potato chips with the combos? My youngest insists on pickles on his burgers.
dhorst at 2:36PM on 10/23/08
@Channa: you will find these snacks fifteen paces north of the 42nd Street entrance to the unsightly PA Bus Terminal; make a left of 9 gilderblocks and step on the blue sidewalk panel three times while clucking like an Ecuadorian rooster to reveal a 7/11 wherein they can be bartered for (but cash works best)
@Anyone who liked them: I never said these were good- they're not- and you have foolishly revealed to all AHT readers your disgusting habit of lighting sticks on fire and extinguishing them on your tongue; shame on you
@Anyone who tried them: provided Karma is not laid off in the coming months I'm certain she will repay you with an appropriately insubstantial reward
Despite my best efforts, I was unable to get the Cheeseburger Combos to mate with the McDonald's french fries and large Coke, even in the presence of Barry White's sexually inviting voice. Our search for that elusive Cheeseburger Combo Combos continues...
-Wm. Wonka Bitters
LikesToEatJunk at 4:49PM on 10/23/08
They have them out on the Long Island 7/11's I got my combos @ 7/11 off the L.I.E exit 63 ... They have the huge bags of them!!!
burgerboy at 4:49PM on 10/23/08