Samyang Ramen Caution! 1. Please avoid sunlight, moisture, cereals, and dried fishies 2. Please store at clean, dry and cool place. Samyang foods Co. Ltd.
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Well, no problem avoiding cereals, ’cause now I’ve got this big box of Ramen to eat.
Found this next to the Chocolate Captain Crunch with dried fish Crunchberries.
Which part of fish are the crunchberries?
OOOOOH. Ordinal.
… but not Cardinal
Seriously, tho’, why would you have to keep ramen away from cereal? Do they breed and produce some sort of mutant starch?
Yes. Not just mutant starch, but mutant, dried-fish-adjacent starch! Run!!!
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In considering this, I’m wondering if it’s really Engrish when it’s just a part of once sentence out of order … or am I just being a picky English major for life?*
*What else do you call it when your degree was granted 15 years ago?
Well, should we actually deconstruct it, since there’s not a lot going on here anyway?
- You’ve got the “please avoid”, implying the person reading the box, not the contents
- “please store at”
- fishies: doesn’t pass the spell checker for ages 5 and up
- keeping things away from dried fishies probably an issue in some cultures but a bit of a non sequitur in most of the English-speaking world
- a big white-on-red “CAUTION” is a bit of overkill. It’s not going to burst into flames if exposed to these items
- and, I almost hate to come back to it, but why *not* near cereal? I’m going to look for some ramen noodles and put them next to my cereal to see what happens. Wait, it says “cereals”, so it needs to be multi-grain, I guess.
I’m out of ideas…
Well, the dried fishies may come back to life and eat the Ramen…
Not the dried fishies!
oh, these are vampire fishes, they can’t come out in the light!
Unless they’re stupid swooning teenage girl no-sex-romance pretend vampires, who just sparkle, apparently. What sort of vampire neglects to burst into flame and crumble away to ash when exposed to sunlight? What the hell are they teaching kids these days? Jeez, it’ll be fairy-tale castles as boarding schools for student magic-users, next…
Or thinking you can get to some other country via a wardrobe. That’s a laugh – I tried it and it doesn’t work.
Cereal refers to grains. A bag of organic oatmeal hatched a litter of miller moths at the grocery store and they were quickly into everything else cereal, grain, or noodle. Ramen boxes and bags of spaghetti would have holes, webs, spots, or dry larvae and moths. They had to nuke the dry and organic foods isle with pesticides to get rid of them.
Dried fish vapors pass right through most plastic wraps and are absorbed and change the flavor of most dry foods easily.
[serious] Thanks, your reply and my 2nd inquiry crossed in the email. [/serious]
OK, back to the general mockery…
I think the advice to stay away from dried fishes should go out to everyone/everything!
Well, perhaps that’s why the picture is here. If we’re lucky, it’ll get on Fox News as a warning to everyone.
Which side of the oriental foods market is “away” from the dried fish?
OOOH! OOOH! OOOH! Salted Fish Frosted Corn Flakes with the tiger on the front.
Well, in the one I go to occasionally, the left side (as you enter) is the wet fish, and the dried fish is on the right. This might be the opposite south of the equator.
Hey!! It ain’t nice to say “oriental”. You should say “Asian” instead. Now go wash your keyboard out with soap.
Oh dear – in that case, I’d better drop in to my local “Oriental” specialty foods shop on the way home, and tell the Chinese fella who runs it that he’s at risk of offending himself. He’ll be horrified, I’m sure, because he’s a really nice bloke.
When political correctness attacks, next, on FOX!
The orient refers to a part of Asia. Not one of my Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Vietnamese, or other ORIENTAL friends are the slightest offended by the term.
We have several stores in town with a sign that says “Oriental Food Market”. It is a very owner independent group of stores. There is one wholesale supplier, but each store stocks for its community. I have encountered Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipino stores . The food selections are different.
It is hard to explain to the kids that the live tanks does not mean it is a pet store.
Okay! Okay! My bad
I looked it up and it’s OK to call food, furniture, and
other things from Asia “oriental. It’s just not OK to call people from Asia
that. However, even that rule varies from one place to the next. Dang!
All this political correctness stuff is making my head hurt.
Avoid cereals and dried fishies, for these are deemed sinful and unclean in the sight of Grud, whom we trust to keep us safe from salty over-processed food, forever and ever, ramen.
*Groan* Get thee to a punn’ry!
*forever and ever, ramen.*
Hahahahaha! I’ll have to incorporate that into my daily prayers. Particularly relevant if you’re having Ramen for dinner, but still funny if you’re not!
I’m sure the Good Lord would agree.
Thou shalt have a fishy
on a little dishy.
Thou shalt have a fishy
when the boat comes in.
Except if it’s a Mafia Boat, then you’ll be sleeping with the Fishies
This is one of the few where the title makes it way better.
Oh fishie, fishie, fishie, fish!
A fish, a fish, a fish, a fishie, oh!
Oh fishie, fishie, fishie, fish!
And it went, where ever, I, did go…
It’s in his trunk!
Oh, this makes me sad because it reminds me of when a fish escaped from my aquarium. I thought one of the other fish had eaten it until I was house cleaning and found its little desiccated corpse behind a potted plant about six feet away from the tank. I’m still traumatized! * sniff sniff*
poor desecrated corps of a fish -_-
oops. spelling mistake. i meant to write corpse.
If Mafia Hitmen sleep with the Fishies what do the Fishies sleep with??
um…….
With other vessels of ramen destruction, like cereals, of course.
Ooh except, mafia hitment don’t sleep with the fishies, they send offensive fishie eaters and ramen destroyers to “sleep” with the fishies – forever and ever, ramen.