Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Random Picture 57


My husband and I were taking a walk around Ogikubo and happened across what seems to be the viral spread of Don Quixote shops. We walked around the mob forming around a huge box of cheap Chinese flashlights and past the 18-roll toilet paper (post-quake behavior) that people were eying nervously and headed back to the snacks area. It was there that I eyeballed this specimen, but didn't have the ovaries (that's what we say when one is female and lacks cajones, right?) to buy and sample. This is a bag of a salted snack treat called "ika meets maple". Ika is squid. Yes, there is many a day when I think that I'd like to buy a serving of squid and pour maple syrup on it. Even for the Japanese, this is pretty "out there" on the flavor front.

8 comments:

Blue Shoe said...

Did you guys buy it. My curiosity is piqued.

Anonymous said...

ew! i dont blame you

Bean Bell said...

That is so odd - who thought of that pairing! Intriguing though!

J said...

It sounds like it'd really go! Like honey chicken wings, I'm expecting it to be squidish (these snacks never taste like real squid do they?) but with a sweet glaze on top. Mmmm.

Anonymous said...

I would have loved to have tried that! Apart from being a fan of sea-flavored snacks, I really enjoy maple flavor.

Anonymous said...

I enjoy seafood snacks, but add maple to the mix?! I just may be sold!

Ikkin-bot said...

that product sounds designed for me to taste. I hope I can find it when I'm in Japan in July.

Orchid64 said...

Some of you are definitely braver than I. Since I don't like squid anyway, I didn't buy this, but now I sort of wish I did... even if I was pretty sure that I'd find it disgusting!

Thanks to all for taking the time to comment and read!