You’re in a Japanese grocery store, picking up some interesting snacks and candy to enjoy over the course of the weekend. Unable to read the packaging, you rely on images and proximity to determine what you’ll try. It’s a fairly fail-proof method, because groceries stores don’t generally shelve rat poison next to popcorn.
After selecting your Pocky flavours of the week, you spy a colourful package of mystery. Do you:
A) skip it, because you aren’t sure what’s in it and it could be gross
B) buy it, because it has Hello Kitty on it and you’re a sucker for anything cute
C) buy it, because every mystery food you’ve bought with Hello Kitty on it in the past has always had a toy in it and the toy is more fun than the food anyway
D) buy it, because it’s colourful and very cute and might have a toy in it and is sitting on the shelf in between some sour candies and some green tea Pocky, so it is obviously delicious
E) read the packaging carefully for a clue as to what it might be, therefore realizing that it is NOT candy but rather 40 individual packets of fish-flavoured rice seasoning
If your answer is A, you are not very adventurous and quite possibly boring.
If your answer is B, C or D, you are me.
If your answer is E, what are you doing next week? Do you want to come to the Japanese store with me for some REAL candy and not fish flakes disguised as candy?
Apparently, I accidentally purchased 40 packets of adorable Hello Kitty furikake. Judging by the pictures on the very cute little packets, the flavours (2 of each) are:
- Airport security
- Karaoke
- Fire
- Flowers
- Carpentry
- Art museum tours
- Space
- Rectal thermometry
- Soccer
- Dolphins
- Bus driving
- Bar graphs
- Sushi
- Hitting someone in the head with a baseball
- Ice skating with raccoons
- Hair drying
- Science
- Gluttony
- Apple Umbrella Socks
- Serving drinks to evil bears
Mmmmm! I can’t wait to try these!
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hahahahah I wanna try the Carpentry flavoured one!
Jeez, they only include two of the Gluttony-flavoured packs? Talk about setting you up.
Also, the flavours of Airport Security and Rectal Thermometry: one in the same.
I tasted science a lot in elementry school and I don’t recommend it.
Space however is delicious.
Furikake is good stuff. Er, I think; the stuff I get is crumbled nori and sesame seeds. I am going to imagine that to be either ‘dolphin’ or ‘sushi’-flavored. Try some sprinkled on very hot, fresh-from-the-fryer french fries.
Or mix with a little soy sauce, mirin and sugar for the best ever tempura dipping sauce. Yes, it’s teh fish flakes that make it so good. Didn’t you know? Vegetarian tempura … hahahaha. Japanese people think white people are funny. Did you know that, too?
Keep dipping.