DEEPLY MEANINGFUL, OH!

The egg roll cookies mentioned in a previous post were crumbleome and delicious. I had three of them. The technique for eating them is to extend your lips in a tube shape around them and bite, in order to minimize crumbs and fragments going all over your clothes. The name of the brand roughly tranlates as "East Gazes at the Ocean", and there is a cute drawing on one side of a manga type person warmly dressed riding a fish.

No, I do not know what the back-story there is. I bought the tin on a whim a few weeks ago, because it is red and colourful and the Chinese text on one side wished me a happy new year. You would have done the same.

Probably also without noticing the smilling fish-riding munchkin.

We did not open the tin till yesterday evening.
Which was an oversight.



It is traditional to purchase a supply of egg roll cookies around the time of Chinese New Year. I have no idea why this is so. There's probably some deep spiritual significance. Invented especially to impress the white people. Who are unwilling to accept that sometimes something will be done because it's fun.

Just like the manga type person riding the fish. Cute illustration. Let's put it on the box! Why? Because it's fun, dude. What's the connection to the product? There isn't any, but who cares?


Which is why there's a picture of a stone bridge across a jungle ravine in England above. No connection to the egg roll cookies. None whatsoever. But it's kind of pretty, if you like green stuff and scenery, and I thought placing it here without any logical connection or context would be fun to do. And I had nowhere else to put it after creating it.



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