2003-01-26 8:27 p.m.
A Trip to the Cute Asian Candy Store
I could tell you about the past week, which would involve whining about work or about how much time I've spent lately cleaning up my apartment here at Stately Penis Car Manor, so called herein because our parking lot has the greatest concentration of overwrought muscle cars in the county. (Well, the worthwhile part of the county, anyway.)
My little corner of the manse is usually an avalanche of books and paper, which landlords tend to frown on when they come a-visiting. Especially when they're coming to inspect the gas wall heater. Cough.
Instead, let's go to the Cute Asian Things candy shoppe!
- Zoygs. "An invasion of sour taste!" says the packaging. These taste a bit like chewy SweeTarts, only, sadly, with much less sour.
- Blue Soda Tarts. By far the most cutely packaged of this haul, the "tarts" (actually kind of a granular powder) come in a little blue shaker with Hello Kitty on it. (The spout is in the shape of a heart. Aww.) It tastes like what a Blue Raspberry Slurpee would taste like if you soaked it up with silky starch.
- Meiji Chelsea Yogurt Scotch. "THE TASTE OF OLD SCOTLAND. CHELSEA is the candy with traditional Scottish flavour. Please enjoy its superior taste." This is a hard candy that's vaguely yogurt-colored, but have a strangely neutral fruitish flavor. And what it has to do with Scotland, I have no clue.
- Amira Tamarind Flavoured Candy. TheBoy got a very puzzled expression on his face when he tried this, and I imagine I did too. It's not bad, exactly -- I just felt like I ought to be popping a little samosa-flavored hard candy along with it.
- Kasugai Coffee Candy. This one came in a tiny triangular foil pouch, and the only way I could tell it was supposed to be coffee was because of the wee little beans printed around the edge of the foil. Potent coffee flavor. YUM.
- Pola Foods Soda Candy. Cute blue foil wrapping, complete with a little soda bottle. The flavor? Like fizzy, berry-flavored cola. Another yum.
- Pinky. The packaging doesn't have the cute dancing animals on it that the webpage does, and the candy itself looks exactly like St. Joseph's Children's Aspirin. TheBoy liked it fine, but I thought it had a nasty aftertaste.
- Kasugai Litchi Gummy. "Litchi is a fruit originally grown in Southern China and said to have been favored by Yang Guifei. Kasugai's Litchi gummies are gummy candy which has the flavor and texture of the original fruit." The flavor is pretty good (though sweet) but, unsurprisingly, the texture is nothing like the original.
- Salted Plum. At first all I could taste was corn syrup. Then this weird salty flavor started to seep through. Then my stomach started to hurt, a sure sign that it was time for the candy to go. TheBoy had warned me about these, but it was worth a try, anyway...