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thistlechaserIt's late, but I was cleaning my apartment and tripped over the bag o'Japanese candy (again), so decided to get another one of them out of the way. I picked a simple looking one, but there are some really interesting (and maybe yummy?) ones to do in the future.
So tonight's candy is... (drum roll) Botan Rice Candy! (Now with free children's sticker inside!) I almost suspect this is something besides Japanese, as the art style is odd. See the front? And the back? (Little blurry, sorry.) That doesn't look like Japanese to me.
Quite happily, there's a list of the ingredients! That makes my day, as (sometimes) when all the things in it are okay, it won't kill me. These have: Glucose syrup, sugar, sweet rice, water, lemon and orange flavor, and some colorings. Once I opened the box I scratched my head at there being food colorings in this, as they're rather clear... And the sticker I got is rather sucky -- a lizard of some sort riding a skateboard. (Whine! Wanted the kitty sticker!)
Oooh, photos are downloaded. Tasting is put off!
Okay, back. While these look like hard candies, they're actually very smushy. Sheesh, I wonder if they're really old or something. They're wrapped in two layers of plastic. The outer one comes off easily, but the inner one has sort of meshed with the candy itself... Having utterly failed to remove the inner plastic from that one, I'm trying a second one.
Man, this candy is determined not to be eaten by me. I finally got enough plastic off to smell it (very lemony), but even with the help of my exacto-knife, I can't get the darned plastic off enough to eat it. Trying a third one... It must be seriously old. Every time I touch the plastic it "shatters" (really, crumbles into a bunch of tiny pieces), all except where it's touching the candy. The candy is rather sticky, so the plastic remains there.
It's very vaguely the consistency of a gummy bear, so I'm just trying to pull off a little bit to taste. From what I can tell (tiny little specks of it), it seems sort of okay. Even these tiny little bits (about the size of the point of a pencil) are gluing my teeth together, so perhaps it's lucky I can't try a whole one. The flavor is hard to catch, but I'd guess slightly lemony, but also "powdery", as if it was dusted with baby powder.
After trying and failing to open the last three of them, I have to give up. For once I'm willing to try a candy, but it's not letting me! Too bad it's one of the ones that seems like it might have tasted okay (if rather sticky).
So tonight's candy is... (drum roll) Botan Rice Candy! (Now with free children's sticker inside!) I almost suspect this is something besides Japanese, as the art style is odd. See the front? And the back? (Little blurry, sorry.) That doesn't look like Japanese to me.
Quite happily, there's a list of the ingredients! That makes my day, as (sometimes) when all the things in it are okay, it won't kill me. These have: Glucose syrup, sugar, sweet rice, water, lemon and orange flavor, and some colorings. Once I opened the box I scratched my head at there being food colorings in this, as they're rather clear... And the sticker I got is rather sucky -- a lizard of some sort riding a skateboard. (Whine! Wanted the kitty sticker!)
Oooh, photos are downloaded. Tasting is put off!
Okay, back. While these look like hard candies, they're actually very smushy. Sheesh, I wonder if they're really old or something. They're wrapped in two layers of plastic. The outer one comes off easily, but the inner one has sort of meshed with the candy itself... Having utterly failed to remove the inner plastic from that one, I'm trying a second one.
Man, this candy is determined not to be eaten by me. I finally got enough plastic off to smell it (very lemony), but even with the help of my exacto-knife, I can't get the darned plastic off enough to eat it. Trying a third one... It must be seriously old. Every time I touch the plastic it "shatters" (really, crumbles into a bunch of tiny pieces), all except where it's touching the candy. The candy is rather sticky, so the plastic remains there.
It's very vaguely the consistency of a gummy bear, so I'm just trying to pull off a little bit to taste. From what I can tell (tiny little specks of it), it seems sort of okay. Even these tiny little bits (about the size of the point of a pencil) are gluing my teeth together, so perhaps it's lucky I can't try a whole one. The flavor is hard to catch, but I'd guess slightly lemony, but also "powdery", as if it was dusted with baby powder.
After trying and failing to open the last three of them, I have to give up. For once I'm willing to try a candy, but it's not letting me! Too bad it's one of the ones that seems like it might have tasted okay (if rather sticky).
