everyone says GOOD GOOD EAT - GGE BBQ cube

Why are you pouting, little girl on package?

Last week Friday my friend Lailani had a Harajuku-themed birthday party to ring in her 32 years on this planet.

In keeping with the theme (which is Asian - specifically Japanese), there were tons of Asian nom-noms to nosh on.  There was sushi, fried calamari, rice, katsu chicken... as well as some other crispy snacks like wasabi peas and some Oriental trail mix type stuff.

There were also several bags of Japanese ramen noodle wheat crackers that looked interesting.

The brand: everyone says GOOD GOOD EAT.

Yeah.  You read that right.  Just look to the pic to the left.

Oh you kooky Japanese and your weird names for stuff.

Anyway - there were leftovers so the birthday girl doled out food stuffs to people in true Filipino mama fashion.  (You should see the piece of cake I was sent home.  I think it was responsible for sinking the Titanic.)  One of the snacks I took home was a "good good eat" bag of BBQ ramen crackers.

Ahhh, ramen.  You versatile food you.  Aside from your soupy goodness, I've also had you in salads.  Quite tasty.

Now the bag *I* took home looked different than the pic I found whilst Google'ing.  (Don't worry.  I wore protection.  *wink*)  On my bag, there was a word bubble near the girl's head which had her saying, "GGE BBQ cube".

visual cube example, yo!

I have no idea WTFrak "GGE" stands for (and maybe I don't want to), but let us forget that for the moment and discuss the whole "cube" thing, shall we?  I mean, we all know what a cube is: a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.

Thanks dictionary.com.

So when I reached into the bag I expected to find a bunch of square pieces of ramen crunchy goodness.  Things similar to the size of a bouillon or sugar cube.

Did I find that?  No.

What did I find?  (see below)

Do these look like cubes to you?

Look.  Go ahead.  Look.  Tell me what you see.

Wanna know what I see?

I see round mini pucks of dried noodles.

During the party while chilling near the snack tables, a group of us tried the various ramen crackers, and at least once we drew a cracker from the bag and held it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull and posed the question with a quirked eyebrow, "These are cubes?"

nerd cube reference just for me

Regardless of it's lack of cube shapeyness, the crackers themselves were rather tasty.  Depending on your heat tolerance, the spices that make up the BBQ flavor can be a bit strong for the weaksauce people or bland for those that love the burn.  In either case, the snack is still salty but yummy and kind of addicting if you like that sort of thing.  (Which I do!)

I was surprised to see the list of ingredients was so short: wheat flour, potato starch, soy sauce (soybean, salt), yeast powder, palm oil, garlic, white pepper, black pepper, chili powder. 

And let's not forget the allergy information while we're at it: contains wheat, soybean.

The front of the bag claims "no preservatives" and "no artificial flavors" as well as being a product of Taiwan.  The nutrition facts on the back state the serving size is 1.05 oz (30 g).  With the bag being 4.5 oz (115 g), that leaves the snacker with a little over four servings.  Since the bag was part of the leftovers, I'm guessing I ate about two which at the rate of 160 calories per serving, I ate over 300.

Whoo-doggie!  Don't I feel piggish!  LOL!

Would I ever try this again?  Sure I would.  I'm all about salty snacks.  This also makes for good PMS food.  Curious as to how many other flavors there are as well.

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