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Hello, Welcome to the Bootleg leftovers: the Food Addition.
Since I was noticing a surplus of Japanese food related news, I dedicated this report to food.
Sexy Time With Your Food or Sex Up Your Food
I was hesitant at first whether to post this information, but couldn’t pass up the bizarreness of this information. I am sorry if this offends people…
From an article in the Mainichi Daily News, in the underground of Tokyo’s Roppongi district, there is a member-only club/ restaurant, where for a big fee, members can have sex with the animal of their choice and then have it killed, cooked, and served to the member and his/hers party. “Patrons pay up to 800,000 yen (around $7000) for the entire experience and must have an income of 20 million yen (about $175,000) to even get that far. Once inside, through multiple secured doorways, your dating & dining choices include chickens, dogs, pigs and goats - of either sex”
The original online article was comically called “New Restaurant Lets You Pork Your Pork”
With the controversial issue of Whaling on the rise in Japan, there have been many research papers that are about ideas such as making test-tube whale babies and cow-whale hybrids for livestock, to solve the whaling problem. These essays have been published by Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research over the past 18 years in respected scientific journals including "Nature".
Had enough of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Potion drink,? Well now gamers can guzzle down Monster Hunter Drink from the much anticipated Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G game for the PSP. “The Monster Hunter Drink is produced by Hino Pharmaceutical and contains royal jelly, vitamins, and fruit flavors.” Bandai is releasing them on March 27th and will only be sold in 7-11 convenience stores up until April. Bandai expects to sell 50 million of them for it’s limited run.
What the crap is Royal Jelly? I’ve never heard of it till now.
What do you get if Mochi and Waffles had a baby? You get Moffles!
I love Mochi and I love Waffles, but how do I combine the two, simple a Moffle. “It’s the latest food craze! Sweet or savory, the moffle is a waffle made from traditional Japanese mochi rice cakes. The outside of a moffle gets crispy like puffed rice but the inside retains its chewy mochi-ness. While a number of Japanese food bloggers claim that any waffle iron will do (and the trial and errors are well-documented), one clever company has already branded itself “Moffle” and produced a moffle maker. Available on Amazon Japan, the Moffle moffle maker comes in single (¥6,800) or double (¥12,790) iron models in “milk white” or “milk pink.”” They are served in many ways, from fruits and ice cream to curry and cheese. It’s a meal in itself.
To me, a Moffle looks like inversed bubble wrap. To see pictures and read the article, click on the link:
Mega Mac hamburger is permanently added to the Japanese McDonald’s menu
In Japanese McDonalds, for a limited time they had the Mega Mac Burger on the menu, but it was so popular (It sold over 23 million burgers), that it is now apart of the permanent menu. The burger consists of 3 buns, and 4 patties accompanied by lettuce, cheese, etc.
Not only is it apart of the menu, they are also running two limited addition burgers, part of the Mega Mac Series, one Being the Mega Muffin and the Mega Teriyaki. “To keep things lively, the products are time-restricted both in dates and hours. The Mega Mac is available as usual from 10:30 in the morning, but the Mega Muffin is only available from opening time until 10:30, and the Mega Teriyaki from 7 p.m. until closing time. That, and both of these new items are only available from April 4th until May 8th.” There is also a site promoting the Mega Mac in Japan http://megamac.jp/
Obviously the documentary “Super Size Me” has had no effect in Japan…
Eva Coffee Cans Available Exclusively To Pachinko Parlors
This is old news (I’ve posted it before for the first time the podcast team wanted info), but the site Akihabanana has posted another article about UCC Coffee cans have the Eva girls dressed up as maid on it. It is for a limited time, to promote the Eva Movies and is only available at Pachinko Parlors.
Tommy Lee Jones Coffee Commerical
To end this report, I leave you a Boss Coffee commercial featuring Tommmy Lee Jones (K from Men in Black), which was part of a series of twelve commercials called "Alien Tommy Lee Jones". Where Mr. Jones plays a alien visting Japan and it's many cultural aspects. The funny part about these commericals is that he hardly says anything nor make any facial expressions in them.
This was also featured on Japanprobe.com a while back...
