Hungry Man: Murloc Fin Soup
Manda Miller: The Murloc Fin Soup was hearty in a different manner. Instead of infusing me with the essence of Aslan's cousins, I felt imbued with the insidious power of slime.
The noodles felt unusually slippery, until I realized that they aren't noodles at all, but strips of Murloc skin and the fins (tentacles? hair?) from their backs. The chewier carrots are actually fingers, which aren't so bad if you don't think about it too much.
I think that my favorite part of the meal was actually the eyeballs. The experience took me back to the days when I would share a can of fruit cocktail with my brother and a friend every day at lunch, and every day hoping that I would be the one to get the solitary cherry, or a hunk of chicken from the "chicken" noodle soup. Plus, it seems to seep some sort of mild hallucinogenic eye juice, that's squirty like a giant ball of Gushers.
In the end, the spicy fish breath is enough to knock down any foe within melee range, and it's nice knowing that I'm eating a renewable resource. After all, murlocs spawn faster than rabbits!
The noodles felt unusually slippery, until I realized that they aren't noodles at all, but strips of Murloc skin and the fins (tentacles? hair?) from their backs. The chewier carrots are actually fingers, which aren't so bad if you don't think about it too much.
I think that my favorite part of the meal was actually the eyeballs. The experience took me back to the days when I would share a can of fruit cocktail with my brother and a friend every day at lunch, and every day hoping that I would be the one to get the solitary cherry, or a hunk of chicken from the "chicken" noodle soup. Plus, it seems to seep some sort of mild hallucinogenic eye juice, that's squirty like a giant ball of Gushers.
In the end, the spicy fish breath is enough to knock down any foe within melee range, and it's nice knowing that I'm eating a renewable resource. After all, murlocs spawn faster than rabbits!
Zach Yonzon: To a lot of people, the taste of Mae-un Tang can be a tad unfamiliar. You could even say the strange taste sparks the imagination quite a bit -- I mean, just check out Manda's reaction to the soup! It looks like the gochujang -- a fermented soy bean hot pepper paste -- that they used for the soup might've been a really strong one! But Mae-un Tang is actually one of my favorite Korean dishes, so I was massively surprised to find that Blizzard and Hungry Man chose the dish as one of the flavors in their new Gamer Grub frozen dinner line.
Working from Manila, I wasn't able to taste any of the samples that Blizzard sent the WoW Insider office, but I was able to speak with Hungry Man Gamer Grub marketing manager for Korea Hui Foo Joo. He explained that Blizzard developed the Murloc Fin Soup variant specially for the Korean market, where players simply have no time to waste making their own meals. "We feel that this is a perfect fit for Korean gamers, particularly professional Arena players who spend all their time practicing," Joo stated.
"With Hungry Man Gamer Grub Murloc Fin Soup, Korean gamers can enjoy their favorite meal without disrupting vital Arena time," he explains, "(they) just pop it in the microwave during the queue times between matches." Blizzard's rep for food research Emma Lyer said that they think this will be huge in South Korea, and have lined up H O N's Mage Orangemarmalade, engineer of the legendary 1 vs. 2 comeback, as its spokeperson. Orange will team up with pop sensation Hyori Lee (이효리), who is reportedly working on the jingle for the TV commercial.







Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Johnnyd2 Apr 1st 2009 11:06AM
Hard to tell if this is april fools or not. lolz either way.
Johnnyd2 Apr 1st 2009 11:07AM
though the coke 2 comparison and the bitter plasma kinda give it away XD
Tushar Bharadia Apr 1st 2009 11:09AM
"Hungry Man Gamer Grub marketing manager for Korea Hui Foo Joo"
We fool you?
Goobenix Apr 1st 2009 11:24AM
Hard to tell? Come on...rat meat! :)
BigDogg795 Apr 1st 2009 11:08AM
I see what you did there...lol...
WNxSajuukCor Apr 1st 2009 11:12AM
Murloc Fin Soup ftw XD
Slayman Apr 1st 2009 11:43AM
you should be happy to know that while I was suspicious you had me fooled on the first two.
Wilburton Apr 1st 2009 11:21AM
humorous... long winded.
JB Apr 1st 2009 11:20AM
HA! I love the "Bigger then Coke 2" quote. Priceless. Real lion straight from Africa, yummy. Reminds me of this gem of a quote "... it's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good."
Jodi Apr 1st 2009 11:21AM
This would be too cool if it were real, I was almost had too until I hit the rat kabobs..
Mastique Apr 1st 2009 11:53AM
Same here! The rat kabobs revealed it for me too. But Well done! The dragon breath chili actually kind of made me begin to question - alligator meat, in a frozen dinner? How many "traditional gamers" could afford that? Not that alligator is all that expensive, but certainly is mores0 than beef. Either way, well done!
Elzreth Apr 1st 2009 12:39PM
Had me going until the lion meat. I actually bought off on the rat kabobs. lolz on floor like cat on acid (check youtube, funny as hell).
Lyraat Apr 1st 2009 11:22AM
Had to put a hand over my mouth to keep myself from laughing too loud.
Awesome :D
Chase Christian wins for his Dragonbreath Chili review :D
Lycanthro Apr 1st 2009 11:28AM
I thought this was very obvious and as I was reading through the first couple I thought it was total fail. But the rat kabobs and abom guts.. Good work guys, this is classic. Really puts a lot of the more disgusting stuff in game in a sick new light. Lots of fun, thank you!
Evelinda Apr 1st 2009 11:36AM
Its funny, i was already thinking it was gross on the first page... microwave salmon? bleh!
i guess i am just a snob :P
Still, this article was amusing, and it had me going up until you introduced "faye kerr" :)
and i feel it should be portentous... if there can be wow mountain dew, then why not wow microwave dinners? it only makes sense, now doesnt it? Not that we'd ever see either in oz... our mountain dew isnt even caffeinated :/
Erogroth Apr 1st 2009 11:38AM
Almost had me for a second. Then I got to the one with Rat and with Bile and I /facepalmed myself. There is just no point in reading any blog sites wow related or otherwise on April Fools Day.
Ashvoyager Apr 1st 2009 11:45AM
April fools!!!
Karilyn Apr 1st 2009 11:48AM
I love how they started off so normal... baked salmon... and cruddy pork shaped in the form of ribs... Boo McRib. So flavorless :(
Until they started getting into the utter absurd.
*thumbs up*
Scones Apr 1st 2009 11:49AM
Laughing out loud, very funny guys. Now all we need is [Dalaran Stew]
Ace Apr 1st 2009 11:51AM
Darn, and i was actually looking forward to trying the salmon ... until I got to the rat kabobs and knew I'd been had. haha. Nice one guys!