the japanese and their oddfangled snacks

oh wait wait I thought of another thing to write about.
so as all of you /should/ know, being in Mrs. Musick's class, the Japanese class is selling Japanese snacks to raise money. Right, right.

To some of you, the current snacks may be weird, and to others, that stuff may be completely normal.
I mean, Ramune. A neat bottle sealed by a glass marble. People seem to be disappointed when they find out you can't take the marble out, though. (Unless you break it!) But I like seeing people amazed by what the marble does and stuff.

Pocky. Mrs. Musick says chocolate-covered pretzels sticks, but I just call them biscuits because they're not salty. (Which is good, because I don't like salt + chocolate. I don't even like pretzels.) Not too odd looking since they do look like chocolate pretzels, they just look oddly skinny compared to those. And if you happen to let it melt, you have to eat it in a huge blob. I am speaking from experience.

Safe to say, those two snacks are on the normal side of the Japanese snack spectrum!
There are weirder things out there in Nihon.

Let's show you what you're missing out on, hm?
In no particular weirdness order.
First up!!

Green tea chocolate sticks. To most Westerners, any sort of snack that has tea in it is already odd. In the Asian world, green tea anything is kind of super common. I've never tasted this, but I have tasted other green tea products (ice cream!). Mostly it just tastes like green tea. I don't like green tea myself unless there's a bunch of sugar, so I normally describe the taste as usually "plant". I wonder if the chocolate would change anything, though?

Next!
Pancake-flavored Kit Kat bars.

For some reason unknown to me, Kit Kat has become weirdly popular in Japan. They have all sorts of weird flavors. America, we have like, 2, I think? White chocolate and milk chocolate. Japan has things varying from Green tea (told you they make green tea everything in Asia), cheesecake, and Sakura/cherry blossoms (yes, flower-flavored kit kat).  I would want to try them all, but the more limited/rare flavors are expensive.

つぎ！(next!)

Tomato Chocolate. I don't even. Apparently Meiji is trying to get children to like the flavors of vegetables. Good luck with that!

つぎいいいい (nextttttttttttttt)

Yeah, what it looks like. Rose-flavored gum. The Japanese make several flower-flavored things...

P.S. My sister bought some Sakura bubblegum at the airport in Japan. It tastes exactly how it's labeled. Like flowers! XD Weird experience, but I didn't hate it. Seems like a flavor that could get addicting after a while. Weh, I want some now.

I think I will end it here. But I'll leave you with a list of other Japanese treats I've heard of but am too lazy to find pictures of:

1. Any kind of seafood? Name it, and they'll likely have an ice cream flavor of it. I've seen Sardine ice cream, octopus and squid ice cream... yeah. Kinda. Blegh.
2. Soy sauce flavored pretzels. Sounds salty.
3. Sakura green tea. Wow, that's like super Japanese.
4. Chocolate ramen. But isn't really ramen. false advertising! shame, I would have wanted to try it, too.

Oh look, a list of different kit kat flavors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_kat#Varieties
Check out how many are from Japan, woah. Aloe vera? Bubblegum? There are Calpis and Ramune too, lol. (Calpis is another Japanese drink.)