I know that the locals are experts in copying and making fake stuff, but this is ridiculous.
Take a look at what I found at a gas station convenience store in Sukhumvit 26:
 My e yes totally bulged out when I first saw it. Obviously, whoever chump made it, s/he tried to shamelessly copy the very popular Japanese snack "POCKY".
(For those who don't know what "POCKY" is, it's a Japanese snack made by Glico; and it's especially popular in Asia. "POCKY" is basically just a stick of biscuit with chocolate covering on  the outside. It's very easy to eat and extremely addictive - try putting "POCKY" in a glass of cold water before eating; it's soooo YUMMY~~!!!
Click HERE to read the Wikipedia entry on "POCKY".
Click HERE to check out the "POCKY" Shrine.
Click HERE to find out which "POCKY" flavor you are~!!).
Anyway, after the initial shock wore off, I actually thought the whole thing was funny. I ended up buying one (24 baht); just to see how it tasted like.
 As expected, "TICKY" was nowhere near "POCKY".
The first thing I noticed was that "TICKY" (the pic on the right shows "TICKY" written in Thai alphabet) had a bigger box than "POCKY" (and it's got more individual wrappers inside instead of just one - like "POCKY").
Nevertheless, in this case, size definitely did NOT matter.
The chocolate coating was uneven and oily.
And the taste was... well... there is no ONE WORD that can describe it... It tasted like... something that should NOT be eaten (and that's me being nice).
I bet I can leave one stick of "TICKY" outside, and not even ONE insect will dare to touch, much less eat it~~!!!
(Yes, I am actually doing this totally unscientific experiment as I'm typing this).
Worse, it's got some weird Engrish writing; for example:
 "Biscuit coated chocolate"~?! I thought the chocolate was s'posed to be on the OUTSIDE, right~~?!?!It's "chocolate coated biscuit", for Buddha's sake~~~!!!!
 I dunno whether "TICKY" has more Engrish; coz by this time, the offensive snack was already making me nauseous and my brain was shutting down involuntarily...
(Dear "TICKY" owner: You can hire me as "English editor" for 5 baht per word and I GUARANTEE "TICKY" will have NO MORE ENGRISH~ ~!!!!!!)
But why the hell was the poor snack given a name that sounds dangerously similar to a blood-sucking insect~?!?!
NOT appetizing at all.
In short, "TICKY" was just plain YUCKY.
 ticky ticky crapstreetsmartsukhumvit@gmail.com  sukhumvit  bangkok  thailand | LOL !! CS should see this! |
 | I won't try it when I visit, I'd rather have the Crickets. |
 |  LOL !! CS should see this!   Yea, that's right~!!!
CS people are total Pocky addicts~~!!!
Wonder what they're gonna say about zis "Ticky"... |
 | where's my crickets by the way? hahaha |
| I like Pocky..just wondering if Ticky tastes like Pocky...hmmm.... |
 | Lol. I know a Thai who named her dog Ticky. You can imagine that too :) |
| oh SS... i think i know what u mean... i can taste it in my mouth already....... |
| I knooooow~~~!!! It's so SCANDALOUS~~!!! Thumbs down for "Ticky"~!! Boooooooo~~~!!! its all your fault Faa.. now i am craving for Pocky.. and the nearest 7-11 is 3 kms away... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
 | my god. pocky is by far my fave snack. total rip off. :| sheesh. there are actually lots of imitation chocolate. even here in the philippines. :| |
| 3 kms away?? where the hell are you staying?? on top of the mountains??!! hahahaahahaha.. do you know Lad Lum Kaeo??? or Prathum Thani?? hahahaha.. thats where i am staying during weekdays.. *sniffs* |
 | wha hahaha+ I never ever found TICKY before! but it's so tricky, I think! |
| hey! have you tested it anyway? |
 | Hahahaha..............Curiosity killed the cat! I used to try a giant chocolate coated stick but the taste was not good at all. :P |
 | Hahahah another garbage copy cat!! Who in the Pocky world would buy this craptacular piece of junk? If I wanna buy unhealthy snacks, I'd stick with my chocolate POCKY!!
And Ticky is right! The whole package and its content ticks me off with its super lame box art design. Are you sure those atrocious-looking biscuits are safe enough to even look at? |
 | Hahahaha.....very very interesting conversation here... all I can contribute is that yes, Pocky is very much available here in Manila, and my lil sister likes it a lot too... I think I'll buy for her 20 boxes of Ticky next time I'm in Bangkok! - bwahahahah... |
| I think I'll buy for her 20 boxes of Ticky next time I'm in Bangkok! - bwahahahah... you're such a mean brother!!!!!!! :P |
| Prathum-fucking-far-Thani??!!
no shit!! its' FaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaRRR !!!
do you have electricity there?? hahahaha!! geez Acer, you're so JAI RAI~!!!!!!!! Prathum Thani ain't that bad after all... you get verrrry fresh air here and you get to hear birds singing in the morning too.. hahahahahahaha :'P |
| Waaaaaah~~ naa song sarn jang leu-iiiiii... so, next time i see you.. you better buy me lots and lots of Pocky then :P hahahaha |
| Hahahah another garbage copy cat!! Who in the Pocky world would buy this craptacular piece of junk? If I wanna buy unhealthy snacks, I'd stick with my chocolate POCKY!!  YOU SAID IT, BRO~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Are there rats over there~?? yeap, rats and lots of bugs.. i hate it here hahahahahahhahahaha :P |
| I really like this new biscuit coated chocolate (maybe you got some preproduction sample and the discovered too late that they had to invert the process). Hahahahaaa... yea, that was quite a hoot, wasn't it~?? I got a similar kind of Engrish here:
 So it's the pores that are clogging the makeup, eh~?!?! Hee hee heeeeeeeeee... |
| yeap, rats and lots of bugs.. i hate it here hahahahahahhahahaha :P |
| no problem Faa!!! we found it and we ate so much khao phat moo, noodle soup (too bad we dnt know the one that has blood in it), and the thai "halo-halo" (dnt know the name too..hahah).
after RCA last night and breakfast this morning, we tried our luck again to order noodle soup with blood, unsuccessful again!hahahah. Anton doesn't mind if it has blood in it =).
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| i hate you for making me miss Thai food again...aaargh!!!just checked out the fridge and I cant find any sticky rice with mango, khor mu yang, and khao phat moo...sad-ness...
good thing I have Oishi tea in my luggage!hahhahahaha!!!
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| i hate you for making me miss Thai food again...aaargh!!!just checked out the fridge and I cant find any sticky rice with mango, khor mu yang, and khao phat moo...sad-ness...
good thing I have Oishi tea in my luggage!hahhahahaha!!! awwwww.. poor thing :P |
| Sherry, both you and I are responsible for making our Al a total 'khor muu yaang' addict~~~!!!!!!!!! Guilty as hell~~!!! Bwa ha ha haaaaaaaaaa~~~~~ kekekeke.. how come i don't really feel sorry for Al... probably its because i'm also stuck here in Baan nork.. and i can't get any goood khor muu yang here either... kekekekekekke |
| wahahahhahaha!! actually when I was still in Suk, i feel sorry for sherry!whahahahha |
 | The maker of this Ticky snack is probably an idiot and of course an irresponsible douchebag who's just trying to make a few baht off of some kids who really dig chocolate on bread sticks. Though not to trash Thailand alone, I think countries all over the world as well as in so called developed countries such as the US or the UK also have stupid products, mispells, typos and poor editing. I see it all the time on Leno, Letterman or Conan. ( http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/headlines) |
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