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Old 02-27-2008, 11:11 PM
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Default Re: Genius Thread II

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Originally Posted by abcdefz View Post
AV Club reviewed the cheeseburger in a can.








"When word hit the Internet that a German camping-supplies company was marketing a canned cheeseburger, we were instantly buried
under a wave of requests—nay, demands—that we get our hands on one and rate the experience of eating it. The German company
doesn't ship to the U.S., but we paid an embarrassing price for one on eBay, acquired by an American soldier currently stationed at a
German military base. (We're fairly sure it wasn't smuggled out of the country in a coffin, à la American Gangster, but we aren't 100
percent positive.) A few days later, we all eagerly gathered around the hot plate in the A.V. Club labs to see whether cheeseburger-
in-a-can could possibly be any good.

"Answer: no. Oh dear sweet shrieking Lord, no."
man, that's a pretty pretentious article. i was gonna write a parody of it, but it would basically sound like this

Quote:
"When word hit the Internet that a German camping-supplies company was marketing a canned cheeseburger, we were instantly buried
under a wave of requests—nay, demands—that we get our hands on one and rate the experience of eating it. The German company
doesn't ship to the U.S., but we paid an embarrassing price for one on eBay, acquired by an American soldier currently stationed at a
German military base. (We're fairly sure it wasn't smuggled out of the country in a coffin, à la American Gangster, but we aren't 100
percent positive.) A few days later, we all eagerly gathered around the hot plate in the A.V. Club labs to see whether cheeseburger-
in-a-can could possibly be any good.

"Answer: no. Oh dear sweet shrieking Lord, no."
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