Yesterday was Lag BaOmer, the thirty-third day that we come across when counting the days between Passover and Shavuot. The most common Lag BaOmer custom here in Israel is to enjoy a bonfire with your friends. Bonfires mean hotdogs and marshmallows, and that's how I came across this package:
Innocent enough, right? Silly caricatures, nice and appealing. Then we look to the other side, find the usual mishaps...
No big deal, right? And then I got to this part, which I suppose, technically, makes sense, but struck me as quite hilarious nonetheless:
Forget about the sirop and the potentially hazardous colorings. Are we not all singing Donovan at this point?
6 comments:
I like carbonydrates. It's a new chemical. cool.
I'm glad you caught that - I liked it a lot :)
It took me a moment to get the Donavan reference--I kept on thinking "Superman and Green Lantern ain't got nothin' on me"...but then I saw the mallow yellow and caught on...so, basically, they got nothing right. And to top it off, there's sodium in the marshmallows! Too funny.
ingredients only in america? lol
Bubby - yes, and it fits really nicely: "yellow mallow yellow" to the tune of "they call me mellow yellow..."
little sheep - yeah, I think that's one of those things that I'd prefer not to understand :)
If you take a look at the origin of the word "marshmallow", it's not surprising that it contains sodium:
http://www.balashon.com/2007/05/marshmallow.html
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