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January 29, 2009 |
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Enjoy the Mess
FOUND by Zoe
in Cheltenham, England
I found this in the Easter egg section whilst waiting to buy a magazine. It's written on the reverse of a torn Rice Krspies box. I hope Julia and her friends enjoy their sleepover.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
sometimes i add raisins to my outfits, just to be different. then i add a little easter chick, and most people say that's going to far. but they are wrong.
You go, Ceesick. On the cutting edge of fashion, there IS no wrong.
This is a fake found- I found one too on the floor of a bus its to advertise rice crispies if you look really closely you can see its printed!
1) Cooking chocolate is bitter. Wouldn't be good without sugar.
2) If someone is sending an advertisement for Rice Krispies to Found, Kellogg's should pay a fee.
Boooooo if this is fake. I hate those kinds of ads. A friend of mine felt so bad when she got a note from "J" telling her to try this diet "it really works!" She thought one of her friends really sent it.
If Zoe Found it not knowing it was fake, does that make it not a Find? Somewhat like the problem with those silly exam answers a while back.
(How did I just know this was English before I saw where it was Found?? Heh heh.)
Anyway I thought everyone knew how to make those Rice Krispie things without the need for a recipe.
@Basil, I think there's enough unhealthy sugar in the Rice Krispies to make up for the bitter chocolate.
Yeah i found this once and thought i was really on to something, then when my friend produced the exact same one i realised we'd been had :(
I just KNEW Found would get around to swapping recipes!
@Jonathan: you know nothing! Rice Krispies are not very sweet at all. @Baby Basil: "Baker's" chocolate is bitter. What's "cooking" chocolate? Nestle's morsels?
Where's the butter and marshamallow in this recipe?
Hey, cooking was definitely NOT on the sleepover agenda! There was talking, playing, playing outside, computers ... but no cooking. What are you trying to pull here, chickie?
random fact for the day: "Rice Krispies" are marketed as "Rice Bubbles" in Australia.
(under the rubric of 'learn something new every day' can I go home now that I've learned this?)
In America, Rice Krispies are not sweet, you have to add sugar. Then you get to enjoy the sugar/milk sludge at the bottom of the bowl.
Are they different in England? (I know some things are different in Canada.) Do they still say, "Snap! Krackle! Pop!"? Do they say it with a British accent? "Bloody Snap! Krackle! Pop, old chap!"
I may need to take a field trip to England to test my hypothesis. Librarian, we should go to Australia as well to verify the Rice Bubbles information you gave us. Pack your bags Sistah!
@ Librarian, I never realised that Rice Krispies and Rice Bubbles were actually the same thing. Does this mean that I get to go home too?
I also never realised that a 5 step recipe complete with diagrams was necessary to make something so straight forward. This is a really odd marketing campaign. Who is Julia? I sure hope she knows these Emma and Laura characters who are planning on invading her home. Not to mention that Eva person... I won't even start on the poor little 'Easter chick'...
They put chicken in their rice krispie treats over there? Gross.
Seriously, cake cases? I thought "pan" was universal. And it sort of looks like she should break up the chocolate for this recipe using her mouth. But really, the chicken is well drawn. So bravo.
this is seriously a fake? a recipe that's commercially printed on the inside of a RK box?
@ lemon or lime ... "the same thing" might not be literally true, though, because the huge multi-national industrial food giant corporations are known for 'reformulating' their recipes based on what they think are local tastes and prejudices. So, the packaging is the same, the advertisements look pretty much the same, the product names are often the same, and yet expatriots will say "it doesn't taste right"
@ Terrie ... yeah, you know the saying: 'tastes just like chicken'? This is where it originated.
@ lemon: I don't think it was necessary; it's just more fun to have all of the pictures and sweet messages. I'd much rather receive this than a typical old recipe...But an odd marketing campaign indeed.
Like Mona Lisa, I'm curious as to why a company would feel it productive to advertise on the inside of a box, where most of us don't look. Plus, I feel like if they had, they'd make the pictures a little better, the smiley face an exact circle, and the handwriting more legible. Or perhaps they're going for charm, and a crooked smiley has got just that?
it wasn't on the inside of the box- this shape was laser cut out to appear ripped and the other side of the piece was a Rice Krispies box front- to look like it has simply been torn away I imagine it was then put into women's magazines as an insert
Also thinking about it Zoe might well work for Kelloggs!
Cake cases??? I'm picturing a special type of briefcase thing with a handle and combination lock, specially for containing/transporting cakes.
Adding an Easter chick may not be a great idea, as one may choke on the feathers.
I'm also wondering about these cake cases. And adding raisins to rice crispy treats is just wrong.
Not only should Peeps be omitted from this recipe, they should be obliterated from the planet completely. Vile little sugar-encrusted Nerf balls. If not for that unforgivable baking folly, I'd eat these things all day long.
Jonathan - I think "loads of" and "come round" are pretty good giveaways that it's English. Or that it's pornographic in nature.
There really are such things as "cake cases", I believe. My mother brings cakes over to my house all the time in hers. It's a Tupperware-type thing, complete with a handle. No lock, though. Hmmmm, maybe it would be better for my waistline if it DID have a lock!
@Mom interrupted--I say, veddy British Snap, Crackle and Pop! I love it!
@ Flargy ... generations of folks have tried to obliterate Peeps. It cannot be done.
See:
http://www.peepresearch.org/
I reuse most of my cereal boxes, cracker boxes, etc. to make mailing boxes (guess what shape?), boxes for candies, stuff like that, so I look at the insides of boxes all the time. Haven't seen anything like this, though. The recipe sounds nasty (and I'm in complete agreement with Flargy, re the marshmallow peeps. ack!) but it's a cute little ad ploy.
I like the little "fishie" ampersand between Eva & I.
My favorites are the little "sushi" rice krispie treats, with stuff like swedish fish and fruit rollups.
(Oh- and hey you... I still haven't made it to the post office. Sorry!!)
For "cake cases," read "paper cupcake pan liners." Or "petit four papers."
Teacake, cupcake, potayto, potahto.
I don't like this find - I can't find any misspelled words to make fun of, good lyrics to change the words to, or a cool haiku, plus Robert Kiem didn't submit...
It makes sense this is a fake. It's way too well-written, organized and illustrated for your typical secondary student - that's who would be having a girl's "sleepover" right? Not to insult teens, but where's the profanities, misspellings, text lingo? If companies are going to use this type of guerilla marketing, they need 2 B more rlstic.
@Librarian: Thank you very much for the link. I loved the website and now have something to waste time doing (instead of grading papers) while my students take a test.
ENJOY THE MESS sums it up for me. Regular Rice Krispie Treats are messy enough to make, thank you. Ooooo-eeeee gooeey melted chocolate takes this classic recipe to a whole-nother level. If a recipe includes the word "mess," forget it!
Which is a paradox, really, because I'm not a neat-nik. If you were to visit my humble hovel in its everyday state of squalid disarray, I doubt any of you would have the stomach to try my cooking.
My definition of hell: Spending eternity cleaning up messes.
@ Laura in Bristol - what was on the other side of what you found?
I think the co-brand marketing of Rice Krispies & PEEPS to be an odd match.
The whole recipe sounds weird - why not just eact a Nestle's Crunch bar instead?
When I saw this Find (fake or not does not concern me in the least. I got a kick out of it, and that's good enough for me), that happy smiley guy reminded me of this one, which is either the same guy, on a not-so-banner day, or a close relative.
http://foundmagazine.com/comments/5960
(and boy, that made me miss Alan and Farmer in the Dell. What'd you guys do? go ahead and get lives or something?)
:-(
You don't have to read the blurb (or even be from Wimbledon!) to know this is a Britfind...the rounded, tightly grouped penmanship says "British Middle School Girl" loud and clear.
Or should I say, "Loudly and clearly?"
Maybe the Easter chick is supposed to be a garnish, poised on the heap of chocoKrispies? Like a nest?
@ Bunny ... that's what we're here for! Glad to be of service.
"Cooking chocolate" IS sweet. In French it's called "gran fondant". It's not milk chocolate. You just melt it and dip things in it or pour it over things. Or indeed people. (But let it cool a bit first.)
@Mom interrupted... Rice Krispies are not sweet, we add sugar to them too, (and they do say snap, crackle and pop). Ricicles, however, already have a sugar coating on them.
My mother-in-law makes a recipe like this, except she doesn't use "cake cases" (she forms the mixture into flat, roundish shapes) and she doesn't use Peeps. Instead of the Peeps, she puts three jelly beans in the middle. (these are to represent eggs) Not sure exactly what kind of chocolate she uses--tastes like Hershey's to me.
She calls them "nests" and the result is rather like a large fat Nestle Crunch bar with a lot more "crunch" in it. Good, but I don't like to eat a lot of them.
Some people said this was the recipe for Rice Krispies? It can't be because there is no melted marshmallow. Duh. This is something completely different.
Yeah- these might be "treats" made with rice krispies, but they sure as heck ain't no rice krispie treats!
Yeah... this is a b.s. replica! Plus nobody is that upbeat!
Aah! This find is absolutely adorable! I especially love the little drawing of the chick!
Chrome: Swedish fish in sushi? Pickled herring or gravad lax? Contact the Japanese - Swedish cultural exchange society!
why does everyone in america think that british people always say 'bloody', and 'old chap' and 'chip off the old block my good sir'
unfortunately we no longer live in victorian times, sorry :S
Amy,
I don't think everybody in The United States of America thinks that...
...we think they say, pip pip cheerio my good man and all that guff, I say, I say, old man, would you fancy a spot of tea?
oh dear.
some of us aren't very culturally aware are we? we don't really any need to criticise cultures different to our own, nor throw in potentially offensive stereotypes.
back to the point. this is a 'recipe' for rice crispie cakes and every british child over the age of seven knows what they are and now to make them, which makes the 'fake' notion rather probable.
The normal way to do it is to use plain cooking or normal plain chocolate - bournville etc because the milk chocolate like dairy milk would be far too sweet.
you melt the choc (usually in a glass bowl over a pan of boiling water), add the cereal (can be cornflakes or crispies), mix and then spoon it into paper fluted cases - the kind you use for small cakes.
when i make them i add vanilla extract and raisins to the mixture then when they are spooned in i add sprinkles to the top.
you can also make an 'easter nest' version using shredded wheat broken up into strands and making a 'nest' shape then adding cadbury's mini eggs to the top. for those who haven't tried british cadbury's mini eggs, you are missing a treat. peek into european street cafe or the world markets and see if they stock them.
some brits know about rice krispie treats not because we tend to make them here but because kellogg sell them already made in foil wrappers
There are people here who are much more potentially offensive than me, I promise. Unless you weren't talking about me, then..there are people here who are much more potentially offensive than the person you were talking about.
I don't actually know what all Americans think, but I'm fairly sure that we don't all think that British people speak hoity toity.
i should hope not!
thanks for the clarification, and although i wasn't personally irritated by the comments, some of those left on this page could bring offence to a british person and i was just checking to make sure those comments weren't deliberately racist.
British is a "race"? Nationality perhaps, but race?
Jolly good then. I'm going home now, on the basis that I've learned something new today. My work is done here.