Toilet Food

Taipei, Taiwan (and, unfortunately, other places too).


Two girls, one toilet

This could go under "Stupid Food Products" but it deserves its own post...

There is a restaurant -- a chain of them, heaven help us -- that serves food in toilets. It's called Modern Toilet and it's poopular with teenage girls. I was wandering about Ximending shopping area in Taipei, near the "American Street" (slang term) where they have hip hop clothing shops and b-boy types rock bi-lingual graffiti. Me and my friend Desoto were DJing outside one of these shops one afternoon. After dropping a bit of bhangra funk, I went for a pit stop.


(My t-shirt is here.)

As I was walking -- I'm sure I'm not the first sucker tourist to fall for it -- I saw a sign that said "Modern Toilet" and thought I'd go in to take a piss. I did. But I also nearly vomited as I watched the patrons eating food out of toilets. [disclaimer: I did, as usual, have a hangover]



Seriously guys. What's up with this? I've heard about these places before, and thought it was some wacko gimmick that would pass -- but this place was packed! There was a line out the door. And it's not the only one!



You sit on Western style toilet seats, drink bubble tea out of mini-urinals, and eat desserts out of little squat toilets. Some of the dishes look like sh*t. Intentionally! Girls with Hello Kitty accessories flock here. More. More.



I couldn't do it. I'm the weird meat guy. I've eaten real poop. But eating food out of a toilet -- file under "wrong", not just weird.

Do you get it? Could you eat food out of a toilet? Even if it looks like a turd? Leave a comment.

Stupid Food Products

We were shopping at Shanghai's expat food mecca, City Shop, and in the baking aisle found a food product we find so incredibly stupid, we had to share it with you. This item comes from Australia. It's "White Wings Shaker Pancakes ORIGINAL" in a bottle:



Here's the deal. It's sold in a see-thru plastic bottle, and it's only half-full of the dry mix. You are supposed to fill the rest of the bottle yourself with water, give it a good shake, and pour onto the frying pan for your flapjacks. Yes, it's purposefully sold half-full. What a sad sad waste of resources, and what sad way to encourage inexcusable laziness.

Actually, the product has been around for a while, and ran into a bit of trouble back in 1999, being recalled -- "Defect Details: Potential Contamination With Fizzing Agent Causing The Bottle To Rupture."

Yummy!

Who comes up with product ideas like this, and who lets them get away with it? Worse, who buys this stuff? Suckers!

Extra negative bonus points for being 97% fat free -- it's a pancake dammit!

* Trendhunter.com did a great collection of stupid meat products.

Share with us your favorite stupid food product finds, in the comments below...