Snack-a-Jack Attack
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Popcorn is bound with melted dairy toffees and cream, then pressed into a round container to recreate an oversized caramel Snack-a-Jack.
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- The frying pan in the first photograph was abandoned for a plastic container. Popcorn stood in for the polystyrene of a Snack-a-Jack, and the unpopped kernels were picked out of the bowl, a job the account puts at 14 hours, and cast into the neighbours’ barbecue. A bag of dairy toffees was microwaved and poured on, with some cream to loosen what the maker calls toffee-edition No More Nails, and the whole was bound by hand, which burned. It was sealed into the plastic container, set in the fridge, dropped out with a little cajoling and cut for a cross-section; the maker gives the weight as 500g and jokes it is still only half a calorie. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8 · Source 9
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The original account
Please note that due to lack of premeditated pimp planning the frying pan in the shot was totally abandoned for a strange plastic container thing which could only have been designed for pimping snacks. Watch out for it later on. You’ll be impressed.
Now we all know that Snack-A-Jacks are made from polystyrene, which is the main reason this snack requires a good pimping, and also only has half a calorie per coaster – so, for taste based necessity, popcorn was used as the basic building block for this snacky upgrade. Still only half a calorie, obviously. Please acknowledge the amazing quality of the ‘pouring the popcorn’ action shot. It’s all going on here!
Hmmm. There appears to be an awful lot of unpopped kernels in the mighty mixing bowl.14 hours later we have carefully extracted the legitimate popcorn from it’s unworthy brethren. This bowl of wasted, unfulfilled, sanctimonious (possibly) rabble of the damned was cast into the fiery pits of Nextdoor Neighbours Barbeque for later, minor explosive, comedic value.
Next pour on the recently nukeowaved bag of dairy toffees… perhaps the addition of some cream would have a positive effect on the general consistency of the bowl of gunge… that’s it! We have No More Nails limited ‘Toffee Edition’.
Now, how are we to bind these new bedfellows? Umm… Ahhh… What if we… Frelk it, I’ll stick my hands in it.
Oh! Oh! It burns! My flesh! Bonding with toffee! Why?! Now I am one with the popcorn. I’m going to need replacement hands! Behold plastic container thing!
Seal her up and condemn her to the cold embrace of the refrigerator. Before us we see the unused saucepan of ill-concept. The unnecessary chocolate of despair, and the structurally challenged Pyrex basin of doom. And a Poo clock.
With a little cajoling out drops our masterpiece.
Obligatory cross-sectional pictorial rendering.
Mmmmmm… 500g yet still only half a calorie.
