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thistlechaserThis is for all of you people who are driving me insane with curiosity. Do you think I can really wait until tomorrow to find out what this Hogwarts: A Rehabilitated History thing is? No!
Tonight's candy could be really good or really really bad. While standing in the store, I looked at the front of the box. At first I took it to be some green tea flavored treat, then I noticed it looked like a mint leaf just over the name... but there's liquid in the cup. Well, I like mint as well as green tea, so hoping it wasn't going to combine the two flavors, I bought it.
Fast forward to tonight. I took the box out of the Japanese Candy Bag o'Doom and paused. Hm. The box felt empty! Could I have bought an opened box without noticing it? I checked, but nope, it was sealed closed. How odd... I opening it, I found that it might not be totally empty, it had some foil in it. Turns out, it was four wrapped things, but each of those felt no heavier than the foil itself should be. Very odd!
Upon opening one, I discovered that there was in fact something in the foil packages. It looked like a really skinny ice cream cone. It was so light that I figured under the green cap of foamy looking stuff it must be hollow, so I broke one open. Nope, looks like chocolate inside, but of that odd foaminess like the green cap.
The top doesn't smell like mint or any sort of tea, instead it's almost more like... plastic and paint mixed together and then sprayed with something orange scented. The chocolate part smells like chocolate, but only sort of.
Chicken that I am, I'm trying a bit of the "cone" first. Hm. Other than a strange undercurrent of mint flavor, it tastes okay. Onto the chocolate part next, and then I'll have to try the green part itself!
Arrrgaieek! How very and totally strange! Not 'ARG! GROSS!' as I thought at the first second it was in my mouth, but very, very strange. Picture this: A mug of hot chocolate, and take all the sweetness out. Add some mint extract into it. Now let it evaporate so it gets more dense, almost like a sponge but sort of a little foamy still. Stick it in a mint-flavored cone. The flavor isn't awful, but the consistency/texture is *bizarre*. It's really like chewing a drink, except that it's not wet/liquid.
Now, to try the green top... (Be brave, be brave.)
*twitch* Gah, gods. This must be the oddest thing ever created by man! The green top tastes like mint and coffee and some odd chemical all mixed together, but again it's not the taste that's the issue; it's denser than the chocolate part, it's sort of like eating a sponge or thick mold or something seriously odd and not-food-like. Ah! I put my finger (well, tongue) on the texture! It's just like that cheap fake leather stuff! So that's Caplico Sticks for you: Coffee, mint, chemical flavored fake leather, with a sponge chocolate center! Yummy!
While waiting for LJ to let me post, I offered it to my cat to see what she'd make of it. (Like Mikey, she likes and eats anything.) She turned her nose up at the green foam part, too. (I didn't offer her any of the chocolate.)
Tonight's candy could be really good or really really bad. While standing in the store, I looked at the front of the box. At first I took it to be some green tea flavored treat, then I noticed it looked like a mint leaf just over the name... but there's liquid in the cup. Well, I like mint as well as green tea, so hoping it wasn't going to combine the two flavors, I bought it.
Fast forward to tonight. I took the box out of the Japanese Candy Bag o'Doom and paused. Hm. The box felt empty! Could I have bought an opened box without noticing it? I checked, but nope, it was sealed closed. How odd... I opening it, I found that it might not be totally empty, it had some foil in it. Turns out, it was four wrapped things, but each of those felt no heavier than the foil itself should be. Very odd!
Upon opening one, I discovered that there was in fact something in the foil packages. It looked like a really skinny ice cream cone. It was so light that I figured under the green cap of foamy looking stuff it must be hollow, so I broke one open. Nope, looks like chocolate inside, but of that odd foaminess like the green cap.
The top doesn't smell like mint or any sort of tea, instead it's almost more like... plastic and paint mixed together and then sprayed with something orange scented. The chocolate part smells like chocolate, but only sort of.
Chicken that I am, I'm trying a bit of the "cone" first. Hm. Other than a strange undercurrent of mint flavor, it tastes okay. Onto the chocolate part next, and then I'll have to try the green part itself!
Arrrgaieek! How very and totally strange! Not 'ARG! GROSS!' as I thought at the first second it was in my mouth, but very, very strange. Picture this: A mug of hot chocolate, and take all the sweetness out. Add some mint extract into it. Now let it evaporate so it gets more dense, almost like a sponge but sort of a little foamy still. Stick it in a mint-flavored cone. The flavor isn't awful, but the consistency/texture is *bizarre*. It's really like chewing a drink, except that it's not wet/liquid.
Now, to try the green top... (Be brave, be brave.)
*twitch* Gah, gods. This must be the oddest thing ever created by man! The green top tastes like mint and coffee and some odd chemical all mixed together, but again it's not the taste that's the issue; it's denser than the chocolate part, it's sort of like eating a sponge or thick mold or something seriously odd and not-food-like. Ah! I put my finger (well, tongue) on the texture! It's just like that cheap fake leather stuff! So that's Caplico Sticks for you: Coffee, mint, chemical flavored fake leather, with a sponge chocolate center! Yummy!
While waiting for LJ to let me post, I offered it to my cat to see what she'd make of it. (Like Mikey, she likes and eats anything.) She turned her nose up at the green foam part, too. (I didn't offer her any of the chocolate.)
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Date: 2003-10-02 05:40 am (UTC)*sly grin*
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Date: 2003-10-02 09:05 am (UTC)Hee! I really love these Japanese candy updates. *g*
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