Food Drops?! Review

[Deviruu]

I decided to order myself some tasty (to me) sounding candies from where else but Japan?

Most if not all know the delicious fruit drop candies.
http://www.mytenda.com/tenda/images/MeijiCandyDrops.jpg

What about food drops, though? I decided to add to my "tin candies from Japan" collection with four flavors.
Sapparo Beer, Sake, Fried corn from festivals, and gyouza. What's this? I looked at a description and it's said to taste like the real thing?! I must have! [ Halt! Before I get commented with "They're candy, silly girl. They're not going to taste like the real thing." I must add that I fell for it. Japanese treats make up a small section of heaven in my eyes, so I believed it. ]

Two weeks later my package came in the mail. Instantly I tore the package open and was greeted by four small tins, and a 75cent peach candy. I was ecstatic.

First : smelling the product. ...Nope. They all smelt odd. Not surprised, though.

Taste : I shake my head in disappointment.



What can I say about this? First off Sake and Beer did not contain alcohol. I kind of wish it did now, so I can suck on these without wanting to spit them out. It tastes like banana. Artificial banana to be exact. I can't say I know the real taste of Sapporo beer, but I'm assuming it does not taste as I'm about to describe. It tastes a bit like candy corn on the side, as well. Really, really sweet candy corn. I must be imagining, but a little bit of that carbon flavor?

Color - Yellow
Beer - Not approved.




I was looking forward to this one a lot. I adore corn and the thought of a fried corn drop in my mouth...~ Well, it smelt like fried corn! O_O Or coffee. With that I pop it in my mouth and give it a minute. This was the best tasting one. Not because it tasted like corn, it didn't really. At first it tasted like coffee with five giant tablespoons of sugar. Then the taste shifted to a bit like fried-something. I can't describe it, but it's a taste I've had before. I was still a bit disappointed.

Color - Yellow
Corn - Alright.



Never had sake. My teacher told me it's awful, yet I still wanted to join the fun. I wasn't expecting much out of this, really. The smell? Strong. A strong artificial alcho-hall-ee smell. So strong that I shot back instantly. It tastes like a jelly bean, kinda. It's hard to describe. Sweet, but not as sweet as the previous two. I'm not a big fan of it, but there might be people out there who are. The smell did not match the taste at all.

Color - White
Sake - ...Eh.



Last, but not least : Gyouza... I was excited for this one the most, since it's my favorite food. The smell? Garlic. Plain garlic. I'm sorry, folks, but I refuse to taste this one again for review. It was awful. I gave it a full five seconds, before realizing how much I hated it. I tried to hang in there to see if it would magically change taste. It didn't. Feeling the sensation of vomit I spit out this horrendous drop with disappointment.

Color - Wite.
Gyouza- No. Definitely not.




Mini peach candies. Really mini. Looks like baby mints, but have a full taste of a mouth watering peach. My favorite candy by far. Cute, delicious, smells just like peach.

Color - Pink
Peach - Delicious~

That concludes my long review. In conclusion I was disappointed. I should've known better, but I felt a little cheated out. Oh well, I say. I'm glad I could add to my collection.

Best part of the package? The newspaper used to wrap my candy.

Now I have something to study with.

[TalnSG]

The thought of those flavors in candy is repulsive (at least to me) and it seems as though the gyoza ia as bad as it sounds. but I understand curiousity taking over. I had a similar uncontrolled bout of curiosity when Jelly Belly came out with some of their more digusting, and all too accurate, flavors. I particularly recall everyone in my office daring each other to taste the "vomit" one.

I can see where an attempt to make a candy that tastes like Sapporo might come across as oddly sweet, even if it were closer to the real taste. If you distill the flavors of it in your mind while drinking it there is a definite sweetness similar to your description, though much less pronounced.

[Nagoyankee]

You could have gotten much better-tasting stuff from Japan for the same price!

The Japanese who buy those food-taste candies don't buy them for their taste. Rather, they buy them for a conversation topic with their friends and families. Let's face it. We can get hot, fresh, yummy gyoza anywhere anytime, so we don't need the Gyoza drops for a substitute. Some people just buy these drops for an offbeat sounenir. This is why many of these candies are area-restricted to appeal to the tourists looking for strange souvenirs.

Gyoza - Tochigi Prefecture only
Beer - City of Sapporo only
Corn - Hokkaido only

These would be sold all over Japan if they actually were any good. In a sense, they have to taste terrible to exist. The manufactures here "play" once in a while and we consumers play right along since these things only cost a few hundred yen at the most. No harm done. The worse it tastes, the bigger "topic" it makes. Not sure this concept will ever be understood in your country.

This thread so reminded me of the Cucumber Pepsi from a couple of years ago. Japanese knew from the beginning that it was just a game Pepsi wanted to play for a few weeks. The North Americans living in Japan, however, took the Cucumber Pepsi seriously and made lots of Youtube videos about it, telling everyone how terrible it tasted. What they never understood was that it HAD TO taste terrible for Pepsi to get consumers talking about it and uttering the name "Pepsi".

[ozkai]

Egg:

Eggs when dropped do not last long except in extreme heat.

If dropped on Tarmac, they would fry, in which case you would have fried eggs.

If in winter in Hokkaido, your eggs may survive from going off, however, you would have a difficult time collecting your egg.

[burkhartdesu]

最初の投稿者：Nagoyankee

You could have gotten much better-tasting stuff from Japan for the same price!

The Japanese who buy those food-taste candies don't buy them for their taste. Rather, they buy them for a conversation topic with their friends and families. Let's face it. We can get hot, fresh, yummy gyoza anywhere anytime, so we don't need the Gyoza drops for a substitute. Some people just buy these drops for an offbeat sounenir. This is why many of these candies are area-restricted to appeal to the tourists looking for strange souvenirs.

Gyoza - Tochigi Prefecture only
Beer - City of Sapporo only
Corn - Hokkaido only

These would be sold all over Japan if they actually were any good. In a sense, they have to taste terrible to exist. The manufactures here "play" once in a while and we consumers play right along since these things only cost a few hundred yen at the most. No harm done. The worse it tastes, the bigger "topic" it makes. Not sure this concept will ever be understood in your country.

This thread so reminded me of the Cucumber Pepsi from a couple of years ago. Japanese knew from the beginning that it was just a game Pepsi wanted to play for a few weeks. The North Americans living in Japan, however, took the Cucumber Pepsi seriously and made lots of Youtube videos about it, telling everyone how terrible it tasted. What they never understood was that it HAD TO taste terrible for Pepsi to get consumers talking about it and uttering the name "Pepsi".

I was in Japan during the "Cucumber Pepsi" epidemic, and unfortunately I was one of the idiots who took it seriously.



^^^^ comic I made, documenting the phenomenon... featuring my friend Randall [Ran-chan]