Thursday, January 6, 2011

The most un-assuming, tastebud tickling snack...ever...EVER.

I love popcorn.
But...popcorn may be evil.
I try not to eat things that stab me in the gums over...and over...and over.....it's sooo tasty and yet those sharp little hulls get jammed between my teeth every time. I can think of no other snack that's as dangerously delicious to eat. Unless I started playing Russian roulette with my chocolates by hiding a choking hazard in every other one...which I won't because, like I said, trying to avoid evil snacks.

Behold the puffed wheat snack.

It's like one of those people that are a secret agent and knows how to maim OTHER people with one finger and yet blends so effortlessly into normal society that they may very well have been the bloke who bagged your groceries during your last trip to the super market. (he handled my frozen spinach in a way that made me suspect he could speak a dozen languages fluently and diffuse a bomb with his teeth whilst rescuing the President, of any country)

This is a brown wrapper sort of snack.

It's also delicious. It punches you right in your tastebuds, in the good way!

One bowl of puffed wheat berries, found in your cereal aisle, is drizzled with olive oil, then Tabasco. While it's still recovering from the shock of spicy hot vinegar raining down all over it's rather plain jane surface you start going Emeril all over it. Bamming it with sea salt, garlic powder, Parmesan cheese and ground flax seed.

Then you eat it...with a spoon.


p.s., I imagine this could be made with the puffed grain of your choice, be it rice or millet. I'm not gonna stop you...heck if you're looking for a little excitement, a little dangerous thrill in your life, make it with popcorn. See if I care.

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