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“Je voudrais un verre de ‘Hello Kitty’ vin s'il vous plait.”
(That's "I would like a glass of Hello Kitty wine please" for non Francophiles.)
The Sanrio cartoon cat rarely has sounded so fancy — or so unexpected. That’s because wine now can be added to the long list of Hello Kitty-related products (alongside contact lenses, tattoos and even vibrators!)
While perusing the list of vendors that will be in Las Vegas for the 2010 Nightclub & Bar convention March 8-10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, one booth on the map jumped out at us: Hello Kitty Wines. (OK two; Big Ass Fans has a nice ring to it.)
Yes, our little girl is all grown up ... and drinking. But she’s been of age for years anyway (Hello Kitty was "born" in 1974), so it’s all good.
Innovation Spirits recently unveiled the Hello Kitty Wines in four varieties, but forget the notion the vino will taste like cotton candy. Produced by the family-run Torti Tenimenti Castelrotto vineyard founded in 1910 in Italy, this wine is made from some serious grapes.
All the four Hello Kitty wines are 100 percent Pinot Noir. The Brut Rosé comes with a special Hello Kitty Pendant with a ribbon in the colors of the Italian flag, and the Rosé demi-sec dubbed Sweet Pink makes for an ideal dessert paring. Hello Kitty Wines also offers Angel White and Devil Red.
Curious NC&B convention attendees can walk the pink carpet like a VIP at the Hello Kitty Wines booth and sample some of the kitty’s creations. Whether they’re the cat’s meow or not, we’ll just have to wait and see.



By Marvo | February 19, 2009
Death by Hello Kitty is not how I hope to leave this Earth, but the Hello Kitty Rice Seasoning Mix has the power to make it happen with its 2,739 milligrams of sodium per package.
Although that’s not how I imagined Hello Kitty would truly off me.
I figure if Hello Kitty wanted to end me, she would use Hello Kitty chloroform or Hello Kitty roofies to knock me unconscious, restrain me with Hello Kitty handcuffs or Hello Kitty duct tape, keep me silent with a Hello Kitty gag rag, throw me in the back of a Hello Kitty van, drive me to the nearest Sanrio shop, secure my body to a Hello Kitty torture rack, pour water all over me with a Hello Kitty bucket, wake me up via electrocution with Hello Kitty jumper cables connected to a Hello Kitty car battery, break my nose with the butt of a Hello Kitty M-16 assault rifle, place several connected sticks of Hello Kitty dynamite around my body with a long fuse, light the fuse with a Hello Kitty blowtorch, say to me “Goodbye, Kitty,” walk away and I blow up moments later.
The Hello Kitty Rice Seasoning Mix (or furikake for those of you who like to keep it real) is made up of Hello Kitty-shaped pieces of dried seaweed, strips of dried seaweed, rice crackers, bonito powder, monosodium glutamate and a shitload of salt and cuteness, both of which can cause high blood pressure.
When I first received the product, I expected it to contain nothing but kawaii Hello Kitty-shaped pieces of seaweed, but it came with all of the not-so-cute ingredients and only 5-7 Hello Kitty-shaped seaweed in each of the three packets. The amount is enough to satisfy a casual Hello Kitty fan, but not enough for a Hello Kitty maniac who would probably use the pieces to create an extravagant stop motion video and post it on YouTube to prove that she is THE Ultimate Hello Kitty Fan.
Each packet has enough to sprinkle over 3-4 bowls of rice or, if you’re feeling lucky, one-soon-to-be-very-salty bowl of rice. The product was much like other rice seasoning mixes I’ve had. It had a fishy and salty taste, although it was significantly saltier than others, but I guess it should be since salt is the first item listed in the ingredients list. I’m surprised that my blood pressure didn’t rise by just having it in my apartment. The rice crackers added a little crunch, but didn’t add to the taste since the salt and MSG overwhelmed everything, like the smell of a stripper after receiving a lap dance. Even with its disappointing taste, I can see Hello Kitty fanatics buying this to make their bowls of rice more adorable.
Besides increasing blood pressure, the Hello Kitty Rice Seasoning Mix proves that the people who own the license to Hello Kitty have no shame and love the money from licensing Hello Kitty to any company who is willing to dish it out. If Hello Kitty wanted to, she could probably get rid of those greedy bastard by using the second cutest way to die, which is Sailor Moon hair strangulation.
(from theimpulsivebuy blog)