| Scorn! |
| Friday, October 28, 2005 |
This made me laugh. There is also Horn! chocolate and some variety of Orion beer that might be fried chicken flavour. It has "fu-ri-e-du chi-ke-n" written on it, above a ripped-off-KFC photo of some fried chicken on the can.
Foods that are good in Okinawa:
* Noodles, fish, rice, sushi, sashimi, fried chicken, spare ribs, obviously.
* Beef (that world-famous Kobe beef actually comes from Okinawa).
* Spam (this place is the 2nd largest consumer of Spam, after America, and the supermarkets have whole aisles devoted to it and Spam related products).
* Some weird cross between a giant apple and a pear called a Nashi.
* Snacks and instant food (aka pot noodles, steamed doughballs filled with pizza, cheese or random meat, riceballs wrapped in seaweed, pizza).
* Mexican food (I have no idea why).
* Chocolate milk (food of the gods).
Foods that are really really terrible in Okinawa:
* Cheese (my god, I paid a fortune for some Philadelphia yesterday only to find out that it is, like all the cheese here, tasteless and plasticky like Kraft processed cheese)
* Bread (it all tastes of cake. I've given up buying inoccuous looking baguettes because they are all stuffed with either jam or custard).
* Milk (what on earth do they do to it to make it smell and taste curdled even when it's months before the best before date?)
* Sausages, bacon, and other essential fry-up ingredients (despite having a multitude of pigs, it all tastes like spam).
Foods that I would exchange my own body parts for because you can't get them here for love nor money:
* Roast dinners
* Pies
* English breakfasts
* Yorkshire pudding
* Potatoes
Weird foods that I've tried:
* Pig ears - crunchy.
* Blowfish - it looked and tasted like blood.
* Goya, the Okinawan famous bitter melon - tastes like battery acid but it's unbelievably good for you so I'm trying to learn to like it.
* Other strange things that the teachers like to feed me.
I found Toblerone this week! And I might have even found pesto. Well, I decoded the Japanese as saying "basil pasta sauce" and it's green. Dear god, please don't let it be jam in disguise. |
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