Chicharon Adventures sponsored the first annual Mabuhay Festival at USC. The team was there to promote the tees, but we also wanted to show support for the Angels of Hope Orphanage in Cavite. It was a good event. We'll see them again next year. Below was our ad, with Kim and Cheenz representing.
Chicharon Adventures representing in Seattle! Spoken word poet, eLa, was seen wearing the “Make Chicharon Not War” tee at the Seattle Poetry Slam competition. She read one of our favorite pieces called “My Incredible Woman”. We were so thrilled to see her wearing our tee, we asked to write something about it. Check it out…it’s crazy funny.
I grew up in a home where love equaled food. Food was the only offering available cause the lights of anything and everything else was subdued. Imagine that…food as a sharing buffer. And if times grew tougher, no matter the trials we suffer, I always knew the light of it all would include food. At times like these, with all the disease of cancers, and trying to find the answer, and who has the most power, in the final hour, as the tragedy of the world empowers our minds, let us devour…chicharon. Big massive rinds of pork, like a crunch treasure, fried for our pleasure. Let’s make huge crunches into anti-war punches, add chicharon in our children’s lunches to share with their friends so their crunches can drown out the negativity the world bunches in our ears. Let’s add BYOV, bring your own vinegar, to invitations, create celebrations and people of all nations will make declarations of peace with chicharon bits stuck in their teeth. Watch all of the world’s armed forces become so obese that they cant get up to fight in wars, cause they can no longer fit through doors. But this is only a dream. A dream I kind of wish would come true. Chicharon is the kind love that I wish the whole world knew. Enjoyed by many, but appreciated by few. And as we watch the time advance…lets stop dropping bombs, and give love, peace and chicharon a chance!
Chicharon is a simple food to explain, right? Plain and simple, it’s fried pork. But the Filipinos seem to have so many other names/variations of it. The eggplant tee, The List, has most, if not all of them. There’s crispy pata, lechon, pork rind, pork crackling, and of course chicharon (adventures). Whatever the case, fried pork is booooomb!!