Comments on: My kingdom for a Choco Pie

By: amstravels

amstravels — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:39:08 +0000

Heh! Mongolia, too, subsists on Choco Pies (and mutton). No occasion is complete here without it. I think the massive sugar injection is the reason for it’s enduring popularity.

By: David Sanderson

David Sanderson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:39:47 +0000

I can see a marketing phenomenon in the making here. The Israeli Army Diet is way passe - it is time for the North Korean Civilian Diet to make its gaunt debut. It would be a legitimate export to the world in contrast to North Korea’s current exports of illicit drugs, fake viagra and genuine nuclear technology (if only it was genuine viagra and fake nuclear technology the world would be much happier, safer and more upright).

Choco Pies are the key ingredient and the marketing ballistic weapon of the NKC Diet. After a week of subsisting on rice and gruel you would get your reward: the right to tear a Choco Pie (one only!!) limb from limb.

Bring it on, lose those kilos and you will no longer resemble Kim Jong-il in any way, shape or form. And isn’t that worth striving for?

By: Adam Barker

Adam Barker — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:23:24 +0000

Looks like a Moon Pie I had recently in the states. I thought it was like a wagon wheel too. Instead it was marshmallow between what was like 2 Sao biscuits covered in chocolate.

One bit was enough. Still, beggars can’t be choosers…

By: amy corderoy

amy corderoy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:28:44 +0000

Choco Pie got me through 2008! Its (I would call it) “understated” flavour means that you can eat one every day and never get sick of them - little did I know that as I slunk across the road to a Chatswood 7 eleven every afternoon I was actually expressing solidarity with the workers of North Korea! Thank you Ruth Brown!

By: David Sanderson

David Sanderson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:02:50 +0000

Just like a chocolate milkshake only crunchy.

Soft power has clearly taken a new candy-coated form.

I appreciated the review but really to do it properly you would have to live on a starvation diet of rice and gruel for at least a year before sampling and reviewing this sauceless pie. May I suggest that Jonathon Green volunteer. Having seen him on a video recently lounging around outside a public school it was clear that such austerity might do him some good.

Then he could have a Choco Pie and thoroughly enjoy it. He would be so damn grateful he wouldn’t even notice that it is too dry.