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markle · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 1316 Location: Out of Japan

Ok we all know about some of the more infamous dishes that are just wrong - corn and mayo on pizza (in fact anything on pizza here) but any new ones.

Yesterday I came across chocolate covered potato chips (I sh*t you not)watdafa???
Also cheese in nabe.

Let's steer clear of traditional Japanese foods - I know natto is pukable but I don't need 50 posts reminding me and anyhow it is a good way of preserving beans.

maya.the.bee · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 118 Location: Stgo

They've got chocolate covered potato chips in Ohio. Mike Sells.

From Hokkaido, lamb flavored candy. I'm not sure if its supposed to be a joke or what...its gross.

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Ice cream, Japanese style
http://view.nowpublic.com/?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sergetheconcierge.com%2F2006%2F06%2Fseafood_icecrea.html

Various flavors include crab, corn, wasabi, shrimp, eel, noodle, chicken wing, miso, and cactus.

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Soya sauce ice cream. Tastes like chocolate for the first second or two and then the soya flavour hits you.

Atlas* · Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:28 am Post subject:

genghis khan flavored toffee
also beer flavored toffee

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

madeira · Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 182 Location: Oppama

What bugs me sometimes is the total disregard for temperature... combined with a strict order for eating stuff.

You're supposed to eat the miso soup last, even though it arrives along with everything else. I don't like cold soup, so everyone laughs at me.

J. · Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 327

Around here they eat the miso soup at any time, a few sips here, a few sips there. Maybe those people laughing at you are the weird ones. I never heard of having to eat things in a special order. Sounds obsessive to me.

Atlas* · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:42 pm Post subject:

genghis khan is a meat dish from hokkaido, i guess - well i had it there, and got candy from a friend from there, i guess it might be the lamb flavored candy that was brought up earlier

sallycat · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 303 Location: behind you. BOO!

placenta gummi bears

sethness · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 209 Location: Hiroshima, Japan

+ Pizza served so thin it looks like a POSTCARD PICTURE or stained glass;

+ "Italian" spaghetti, in which the secret sauce is KETCHUP. (Shouldn't that make it American spaghetti?);

+ Serving icewater in restaurants, even in the dead (cold) of Winter;

+ Serving hot towellettes to patrons for cleaning their hands, even in the dead (heat) of Summer;

+ Mayo on EVERY damned thing. Pizza, okonomiyaki, hot dogs, french fries...

+ making ketchup unavailable at McDonald's, even if you beg for it (WTF, cheeseburger and fries w/o ketchup? );

+ Fish in evvverything, no matter how many times you beg the waitress to warn you away from foods containing fish

+ Pseudo-icecream: 'lacto-ice" is everywhere, as is kaki-gohri, but is there REAL ice cream? Noooo.

+ Charging as though the main ingredient were precioius metals or gemstones. GET OVER IT, JAPAN! A slice of cake should never be $3, and a cup of coffee should never be $5!

+ Playing "let's cover a big plate with a drizzle of sauce, and hope the customer will think the actual food is larger than my pinky".

+ Pretending that shredded lettuce is a good way to bullk-up any lunch, when the rest of the food on the plate is only discoverable with an electron microscope and a bloodhound.

+ Tortillas made with Indian "Nan" bread, at Mossburger. For pete's sake, guys, look at a map! This is not a naturally occuring foodstuff, unless a shipwrecked Nepalese cook drifts onto Mexico's shores! Wink

+ calling okonomiyaki "Japanese pizza". No, chef, that's NOT what pizza looks like!!! That's what pancake batter mixed with salad and noodles looks like.

+ "Big Empty Bag" syndrome, in which anything you buy at a convenience store comes in a bag with a clear window at the bottom & looks full, but is in fact 2/3 air. WTF, is anyone stupid enough to fall for that trap TWICE? Kill the marketing weenies.

+ "Pyramid sandwiches". This is when you arrange 5 grams of food along the leading edge of sandwiches, then wrap the sandwiches so that ONLY the leading edge can be seen. The resulting sandwich is shaped like a pyramid, the widest part being where the 5 grams of filling are, and the narrow remainder being PLAIN BREAD. Again, shoot the marketing weenies who assume people will be dumb enough to fall for that stunt twice.

+ wrapping EVERYTHING individually. Every...damned... cookie...wrapped...separately. Rolling Eyes

...and so on. Shocked

markle · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 1316 Location: Out of Japan

Hmmm deafness this was a toungue in cheek thread aboud some more unusual Japanese attempts at "fusion" food not an invitation to vent like a petulant 5 year-old that things are differnt here. Grow up or go home.

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

JimDunlop2 · Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 2286 Location: Japan

I think sethness is an immigrant from the "baffled/annoyed" Japan thread (http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/job/viewtopic.php?t=46348).... A lot of these I'd classify as such, rather than actual "crimes against food."

This one I'll agree with though...

canuck · Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 1921 Location: Japan