A Nut-crushing Update
Normally if I had updated information on a blog post I’d just edit the entry and be done with it. This nut-crushing update is a special case, however, because so many people have been visiting the original entry. (I’m not quite sure how it happened, but the Doritos Japan Nut-crushing Package Design became the most popular post ever here on Adverb.) So I just couldn’t let this one go with a simple edit.
Most of the traffic is being generated from my new blogging friends over at Pantherhouse’s “The New Shelton Wet/Dry” blog and it is from their efforts I’m able to tell you what the package says, give you some context and show you more examples.
The New Shelton folks are good.
It appears my detecting a “slight, joyful smirk” on the crush-ee’s face was no hallucination (I have been known to hallucinate, just not about this). The Japanese characters on the far right of the package read, “denki anma,” or “revived by an electric nut-grind!” A phrase, it turns out, that comes from the crazy world of Japanese porn.
The chips themselves are black corn, chili-taco flavored and are part of a line called “Tights-kun Doritos,” or “Buddy-boy in tights Doritos.” Mr. Buddy-boy in Tights is a popular (adult) cartoon character in Japan and having a rotating stable of illustrations appearing on Doritos packages has caused people to begin to collect them. You can see a few of the packages in the image at the end of this entry.
That’s perhaps more than you ever wanted to know about “Revived By Mr. Buddy-boy in Tights’ Porn-derived Electric Nut Grind, Chili-Taco-flavored, Black Corn Doritos (from Japan)™,” but I’m sure you think it was worth it. (And thanks again to the nice folks over at “The New Shelton Wet/Dry Blog.”)
You guys make Fark’s outflow traffic look amateurish.
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