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Mailbag: Giant Bomb Mailbag: Int'l Snacks Edition

Unusual foods arrive from far-flung locales. Hope you like falafels.

What's in the mail? Is it an old T-shirt? A lunchbox full of rusty knives? Video game treasures? Canadian energy drinks?

Aug. 6 2013

Posted by: Brad

In This Episode:

Israel

Germany

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Drew is vascular like a motherfucker.

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@lazyaza: At first it looked liked they tried to detonate the box. I mean you know the US and a strange box from Israel that says 'Giant Bomb' on it.

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BBQ Bissli are the best falvour.

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@herbiebug: that's a great tip, i'm gonna try that, thanks

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I love Giant Bomb, but I'm not sure even THEY are cool enough for those bears on the package. That one bear just don't care.

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Maybe next time everyone should compartmentalize each item in a zip lock bag.

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I can imagine the eye rolls at the post office when a leaky package arrives.

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You think you've "seen something..." You suppose it might be time to "say something."

STOP.

When your gut's telling you "dirty bomb," check the label for "Giant Bomb!"

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Haha, you guys just looked like animals. All on the ground scrounging food, lifting it up and looking at it; immediately stuffing it in your mouths. Made me laugh so hard.

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Wish I got Drew in my mailbox.

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That chocolate is high cocoa chocolate, the cocoa ratios are even listed on the packaging. Of course it would be more fun if those were alcohol ratios.

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That Mailbag Edition made me drool, ALL HAIL TASTY SNACKS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.

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Who wants to back my kickstarter for my 8-bit platformer, Totally Rad Bears?

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Sticky! RIP Ryan. Some things will always remind us of you.

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The stuff from the Israeli dude are not bad, most of the snacks there are considered to be quite good as a local snack (unlike something that is imported like Pringles).

Though to be honest, the only thing that I am sure that he sent as a joke, is the Crystal drinks, because they are horrendously awful to drink, as in texture and taste.

Nice to see some stuff from Israel (I am from there as well). Also the vanilla candy that Drew ate is called Halva which can be made by Sesame have have quite a lot of different flavors and ingredients like Chocolate, Nugget, Pistachio and more, it's really good :)

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@worm said:

Oh wow, doobonim (the first snack shown in the thumbnail), Crystal (the soda drink, like he said, it tastes like bleach) whoever sent these tried to poison you guys.

Eyuuup.

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Edelkakaous = high quality chocolate? Finest chocolate? Someone with better German skills translate that one.

Either way, looks good. I love dark chocolate.

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I think Drew must have been a goat in a former life, that fella will eat anything :D

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Is it me or is there something magical about watching Drew eat and give his opinion on snacks.

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@branthog said:

@lovespuds said:

I think Drew must have been a goat in a former life, that fella will eat anything :D

Yeah, I gotta be honest though . . . as much as I really do like Drew, the whole dog-eating thing sort of really puts me off the Drew train, (sorry to say), if it was done knowingly. That is just really messed up. (Though, I don't remember if it was knowingly or after the fact - it has been a while).

I'm pretty sure he are the dog knowingly, but it's difficult to hold it against him, surely?

It's like this - He was in North Korea. A country that eats dogs. Has been eating dogs for a long time, and will continue to eat dogs. If Drew had passed up on eating dog, it's not like the dog he *would* have eaten would have remained whole and set free to live on a farm in happy contentment for the rest of its life.

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@branthog: How is eating dog different from eating any other animal?

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@believer258 said:

@branthog: How is eating dog different from eating any other animal?

It isn't, it's just a "problem" because people in first-world countries don't like the idea of eating their pets.

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@dagan: You, my friend, are a horrible human being. I wouldn't wish Mint Crystal on my worst enemy.

Also, I resent you for getting Israeli snacks to them before I could.

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@dagan Master of Dimensions? Where did you get it from? I could be mistaken, but I think I got a copy of it from Wiz way back in the day.

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@perkunas: It's an Israel Post package, which means it has both Hebrew and Arabic labelling on it, since those are both our official languages.

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Drew always looks so happy lol ^_^

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Is it me or is there something magical about watching Drew eat and give his opinion on snacks.

Absolutely! They were my favourite parts in the Icelandic video too.