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thistlechaserSince I went shopping the other day, I have lots of candies to choose from. Good candies. Things with cute kittens on them, things with lists of ingredients on them so that I know what I'm getting into. So why am I doing one of the most scary items currently in my bag? Probably for the same reason I ate my veggies first when I was a kid: Get the bad things out of the way first, then you have only good stuff ahead of you. That and bad candies are probably more entertaining to read about than good...
Just how scary are Chocolate Starfish Kisses? (I made up the name, there's not a single word of English on the bag.) Check out this picture of the character on the front of the package. Look at the "mouth". What does that remind you of? Now look at the figure. Looks like chocolate, doesn't it? Put it together with the mouth and get... blech.
So happy-go-lucky Thistle took photos of the front of the package and the back, then opened it up so I could take some of the product itself.
Talk about flashbacks.
The first thing that hit me was a rotten wood smell. Now, I've had lots of experience with Japan's version of chocolate, so I knew to expect a smell (burnt oil), but I was not expecting that awful smell the orange peels had. Without realizing what I was doing, I poured them out of the package. Guess what. They're covered with white powder, just like those peels were. See?
Whimper.
That was about a half hour ago. Once I talked myself into coming out from under my bed and returning to the task at hand, I sniffed them again. Perhaps I was wrong in thinking them chocolate. Maybe (strong maybe) they're root beer? Or cola? The American shorts the chocolate figure thing on the package is wearing might fit with the soda theme... right? (The American shorts are what first attracted me to buying this. If it had American colors, maybe it would be okay to American tastes!)
However, they're enough like those orange peels to make me wary. Very wary. So I squeezed one to see what would happen. They seem to be gummi-like, and whatever that white power on them is, it comes right off. Dare I touch this to my tongue? Perhaps take it into my mouth? Bite it so that it gets stuck in my teeth and I never get the flavor out?
Have I backed down yet?
(Oh look! Photos are finished! I can save and resize and upload them first!)
(All done, but now Catlove is down. Again. Grr.)
So time to taste one!
jdewbvaswn fnejranjrenf fbjreklqbnfjlbbnlkq &^*&809!!
I said to myself that that white powder could NOT be salt. Not not not. It's a candy! This is not orange peel! GAH! Yes, that white coating these things have *is* pure salt. Some sort of super-strong burning Japanese salt! I did the same thing as last time: Just touched it to my tongue, and suddenly my mouth was flooded with burning salt! (Which explains the pucker on the package, I could *feel* all the moisture being drawn to the place that I touched it.)
Gah gah gah, blech! Covering candy with salt! Besides being disgusting, that must be terrible for you! Why is Japan doing this to their own people? Why are they doing it to me?
Sorry, folks. But I'm not eating one. I came, I saw, I tasted it... but I'll go no further than that. (Looking at them closely, they're in a shell of salt. A thick shell. That's insane!) I think I'll save the package though. It's rather... unique.
So a rating for these things? Ha. It can wait in the pile with those orange peels for a scientist to discover a number low enough. (And keep in mind, I like salty things. I sometimes add salt to TV dinners. I love salty popcorn. This is just salty to an insane level!)
Past candy reviews can be found here.
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While downloading photos, I noticed I had some of my cat. She likes to sleep on my footrest, even though it's nearly too small for her. See? That plastic bag right behind her is the candy bag of dooooom.
Edited to add: The candy has a website. It's ... really different.
And don't mind the clutter in the cat photo. That's my clutter-corner, right next to my desk. Lots of stuff ends up there until I can deal with it.
Just how scary are Chocolate Starfish Kisses? (I made up the name, there's not a single word of English on the bag.) Check out this picture of the character on the front of the package. Look at the "mouth". What does that remind you of? Now look at the figure. Looks like chocolate, doesn't it? Put it together with the mouth and get... blech.
So happy-go-lucky Thistle took photos of the front of the package and the back, then opened it up so I could take some of the product itself.
Talk about flashbacks.
The first thing that hit me was a rotten wood smell. Now, I've had lots of experience with Japan's version of chocolate, so I knew to expect a smell (burnt oil), but I was not expecting that awful smell the orange peels had. Without realizing what I was doing, I poured them out of the package. Guess what. They're covered with white powder, just like those peels were. See?
Whimper.
That was about a half hour ago. Once I talked myself into coming out from under my bed and returning to the task at hand, I sniffed them again. Perhaps I was wrong in thinking them chocolate. Maybe (strong maybe) they're root beer? Or cola? The American shorts the chocolate figure thing on the package is wearing might fit with the soda theme... right? (The American shorts are what first attracted me to buying this. If it had American colors, maybe it would be okay to American tastes!)
However, they're enough like those orange peels to make me wary. Very wary. So I squeezed one to see what would happen. They seem to be gummi-like, and whatever that white power on them is, it comes right off. Dare I touch this to my tongue? Perhaps take it into my mouth? Bite it so that it gets stuck in my teeth and I never get the flavor out?
Have I backed down yet?
(Oh look! Photos are finished! I can save and resize and upload them first!)
(All done, but now Catlove is down. Again. Grr.)
So time to taste one!
jdewbvaswn fnejranjrenf fbjreklqbnfjlbbnlkq &^*&809!!
I said to myself that that white powder could NOT be salt. Not not not. It's a candy! This is not orange peel! GAH! Yes, that white coating these things have *is* pure salt. Some sort of super-strong burning Japanese salt! I did the same thing as last time: Just touched it to my tongue, and suddenly my mouth was flooded with burning salt! (Which explains the pucker on the package, I could *feel* all the moisture being drawn to the place that I touched it.)
Gah gah gah, blech! Covering candy with salt! Besides being disgusting, that must be terrible for you! Why is Japan doing this to their own people? Why are they doing it to me?
Sorry, folks. But I'm not eating one. I came, I saw, I tasted it... but I'll go no further than that. (Looking at them closely, they're in a shell of salt. A thick shell. That's insane!) I think I'll save the package though. It's rather... unique.
So a rating for these things? Ha. It can wait in the pile with those orange peels for a scientist to discover a number low enough. (And keep in mind, I like salty things. I sometimes add salt to TV dinners. I love salty popcorn. This is just salty to an insane level!)
Past candy reviews can be found here.
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While downloading photos, I noticed I had some of my cat. She likes to sleep on my footrest, even though it's nearly too small for her. See? That plastic bag right behind her is the candy bag of dooooom.
Edited to add: The candy has a website. It's ... really different.
And don't mind the clutter in the cat photo. That's my clutter-corner, right next to my desk. Lots of stuff ends up there until I can deal with it.
