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| My all-time most favorite chip flavor: UmeShio! (Pickled Plum Salt) |
Everything is seasonal in a Japanese supermarket-- including flavors of chips. At left, my favorite chip flavor *ever* (even better than Salt & Vinegar).
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| thank goodness the bags are small... |
I found two new flavors at Daiei today, though, that I've never even seen before, let alone eaten.
This was not a bad chip flavor at all--very savory, and there actually was a bit of an asparagus taste.
The other flavor I found was "Yakitamanegi"... fried onion.
This flavor *rocked*. Very onion-y, and it really matched the potato taste well. Umeboshi is still my favorite, but I would definitely buy this again for a change of pace.
I also gave the two new flavors above to the kids and a couple of friends in a blind taste test.
Results:
Teddy-- liked both flavors, but liked the asparagus the best
Teddy's friend-- liked both flavors, but liked the onion best
Koshi-- definitely liked the onion... tasted the asparagus...said it was ok...tried it again... then I told him what flavor it was... and he said "bleah!"
Koshi's friend-- liked both ok, but like the onion best
Cici-- thought both flavors tasted weird
Me-- I liked both, but liked the onion a little better
Fried Onion: five 'Yes', two 'OK', one 'bleah'
Asparagus: one 'Yes', three 'OK', two 'bleah' (of the two 'beahs', one of those was not a decided 'bleah' until the name of the flavor was revealed. I expect my mom will laugh about that;-))
Itadakima--su!
Daz's #1 cookery-tip: Anything is yummy, if it has bacon. This is because it contains the little-known substance, baconinate, which is absorbed through the palate,directly into the brain, where it triggers the release of yummiate, recently found to be an important part of the noradrenaline* system.
ReplyDeleteIn short, bacon = mmmmm.
*That one's real, btw. The rest is, erm, 'awaiting experimental confirmation'.
Ahh-- somebody who cooks like I do! Bacon=bliss. Crispy, not floppy. It's probably a good thing that there's really nothing in the way of actual, you know, crispy bacon here. I'd weigh eight hundred pounds, surely. And... I'm sure your science is sound;-))
ReplyDeleteaww! I want to taste test (and then eat) all of those!
ReplyDeleteAlso, i never thought of wrapping asparagus in bacon before. I love asparagus, though, so maybe i should just forget about it, since the last thing i need is more bacon in my life (regardless of how much i want it)
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
ReplyDelete—Francis Bacon
Well, I liked it. And, well ... Bacon!
I'm on board with the Bacon Improves Everything crowd. I'd never thought of Asparagus rolled in bacon though. I am going to have to try that one out on Mr. Alice. I think the Asparagus-Bacon and the Fried Onion chips both sound fabulous...the plum flavor sounds icky. -wrinkles up nose-
ReplyDeletevery nice!
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