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For what it's worth, I found the timing to be pretty hilarious. Good for a chuckle. Any idea if whoever made it made the thing before or after the debate?

Potato has a pretty distinct flavor, and this stuff just had that same aggressive lack that rice cakes embody. I've gotten more taste out of munching on dried potato flakes.

Also I've had flavored ones, too. They're arguably even worse, because you have the taste, and then you have this undercurrent of non-taste making everything worse -- you'd literally be better off just mixing together some salt and vinegar or whatev' and eating it raw. Even when the flavored ones are fresh, the cakes themselves make it taste like they're a month stale or somethin'. Horrible stuff.

The ones I tried didn't have the neutral inoffensive taste of rice cakes - they actually tasted like lentils. Of course, I hate lentils. 

I think you mean offensively neutral taste of rice cakes. I swear, rice cakes are the snack food of people who hate themselves, their lives, and everything involved in the sensation of taste. Or at least the ones they sell around here are. They're like cardboard's even more bland cousin. And I mean that very literally, as I have tasted cardboard. Least flavorful anything I've ever tasted, rice cakes are, and the texture is faintly horrific.

These things tasted pretty much dead on for 'em, just in a different shape and somewhat different texture. How the hell they managed that with something made mostly with potato starch and lentil powder I have no goddamn clue.

I kinda' want to find out, so I can strangle everyone that has knowledge of the black magics involved and ensure the stuff stops being sold.

Update: Oh god, they taste like those horrible fluffy round rice cake monstrosities. The ones primarily produced by Quaker Oats, in this region, I think. If you've ever experienced the taste sensation of dry salty cardboard, you know of what I speak.

I have tried one. I will eat no more. Blegh.

Yeah, same flight and mile high club initiation comes to immediate thought. Also communication and whatnot's really easy these days, and there's not terrible odds that someone at the same stopover is either from near where you came from or are going, so... it's not the worst venue to pursue a relationship of varying lengthiness. Far from the best, but people can get really goddamn bored waiting for a flight.

Government also has a fair amount of data it could pursue as thought crime, and does, though, as we've seen from persistent accounts of harassment and infiltration and whatnot of various activist (and in more recent years, religious as well) groups. It's fair to be leery about giving them more official powers to, well, do just that.

... well, if you're intent on going through that much effort, what are your complaints about it?