Twisted Ice Cream

Lori Lancaster | July 5, 2006
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Amy Austin | July 5, 2006
You've got to be kidding me, Lori... of all the most heinously disgusting flavors imaginable for ice cream, you think that "the Cool Garlic one is gross"? Did you actually click through the whole puke-worthy spectrum?? What about "raw horse flesh" and "squid gut"/"squid ink"... or would you choose those over Cool Garlic??? 8-P

Jackie Mason | July 6, 2006
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Lori Lancaster | July 6, 2006
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Lori Lancaster | July 6, 2006
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Kris Weberg | July 6, 2006
My advice on sushi -- start with the cheaper places that sell vegetarian sushi, then go on to the cooked fish kind, and then go to a good sushi restaurant and take the "raw" plunge.

(And before anyone "corrects" me regarding the phrase "vegetarian sushi," the word sushi refers not to fish but to the vinegar rice used in the wrapping; raw fish is called sashimi. Lori, you probably already knew that.)

Jackie Mason | July 6, 2006
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Tony Peters | July 12, 2006
Kris is right, I lived in Yokohama for three years and Sushi was pretty much a daily thing for me (even for breakfast) You would not beleve the things that are "presented" on rice. If you ever get a chance to eat at a kaitan sushi bar (everything is served via conveyor belt) do so as it will give you a chance to look at all the choices available. As for Ice Cream the Natto icecream was horrid, I liked the Stout icecream. but my true favorite is Japanese green tea icecream, not weird really, but sadly the west doesn't make/sell good green tea much less green tea ice cream

Jackie Mason | July 13, 2006
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Denise Sawicki | July 13, 2006
Speaking of green tea flavored things, we've been getting a lot of Zota soda - (link) It's $1 for 6 bottles at this one dollar store near us so apparently it must not be very popular but I think it's pretty good - for soda :P. It doesn't taste very tea-like either though.

Tony Peters | July 13, 2006
the truely stupid thing is that one of the largest Green Tea Seller/bottlers in Japan is the Coca Cola company, though finding the logo on the bottle is next to imposible even if you know where to look, yet they don't sell any here in the states. At least my wife found some real green tea in NYC so hopefully I can trace the distributor and get someone to order/stoke

Lori Lancaster | July 14, 2006
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Jackie Mason | July 14, 2006
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Anna Gregoline | July 23, 2006
Ooh, which place has the conveyor belt?

Jackie Mason | July 25, 2006
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Anna Gregoline | July 25, 2006
Do you know whereabouts it is?

Jackie Mason | July 25, 2006
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Anna Gregoline | July 26, 2006
OK, thanks. I'm a North Sider and I love sushi so I was curious.

Kris Weberg | July 27, 2006
I think I remember that place. Its that the upscale one with the really weird minimalist decor? Never ate there when I lived in LP because I was too poor at the time.

There are like three sushi places in the five or six blocks between Fullerton and Diversey. There are even more bars. Sometimes I wonder why I moved to the South....

Jackie Mason | July 27, 2006
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Adrianne Rodgers | August 12, 2006
Frankly, I'm not surprised if it's Japan we're talking about here, at the risk of sounding like a racist. It's a facsinating culutre, but I could do without;

Green Tea Kit-kat bars
Marshmallows filled with jelly
Pizza with corn on it
Cricket on a stick!

(And on a side note, anybody read any Japanese mythology? Don't. And Japanese toys? I had a friend who went to Japan two or so years ago. As a joke, she brought me back plastic sushi. That winds up.)

Although, I have to admit, red bean ice cream and inari sushi....could not live without them. And I'm being a little hypocritical, being a native of the country that invented cheeseburger egg rolls. But ice cream with silk in it? WTF? I suppose if a famine breaks out, I'll be upstairs eating my old prom dress.

In the meantime, I think Americans could actually find a great use for all these flavors.
Emetics.

Note: May I suggest Jones Sodas to Jackie. Those guys get some pretty crazy ideas.

Jackie Mason | August 12, 2006
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Adrianne Rodgers | August 12, 2006
Those would be them. They are kind of neat ideas, except those ones they release every year around Thanksgiving maybe. I tried one of those once, on a dare. It was mashed potato flavored. Tasted just like the real thing, actually. Smooth....and buttery....but fizzy. It was preeety gross.

Amy Austin | August 12, 2006
Yuck! That sounds like "buttered popcorn" flavored Jelly Bellies... tastes just like it, save texture -- but not what I'm looking for in a jelly bean. (Not a big fan of the jelly bean in the first place, but no need to go mucking it up with crap like that!!!)

BTW, welcome to "goo", Adrianne... I don't know how to say it without sounding stupidly giddy, so I won't try not to: "Oh, goody! Another girl to mix it up with on TC!!!" (There's really only 5 of us here -- Anna, Jackie, Lori, Denise, and myself -- but Megan Baxter occasionally pops in, too. Haven't heard from Nadine Russell in a while, either. So you about even things up male/female-wise.) I know... really stupid comment. But it isn't very often we see new faces here. In fact... I'm pretty sure that I am actually the "newest"? (Weird, that -- I feel right at home, like I've been here all along... but that's because everybody here is sooo cool. ;-P ;-D)

So, anyway, now that I've thoroughly embarrassed myself -- glad you could join us! ;-)

Adrianne Rodgers | August 12, 2006
I'm glad I could join us too. I guess I shouldn't be complaining about mashed potato soda when I still have a few bottles of the Brussel Sprouts flavor around. If I ever have kids, I know just how I'm going to punish them....

Amy Austin | August 12, 2006
HAHAHAHAHA... gross.

Actually, upon further reflection, I realize that Aaron is the newest face here -- not me! (Yay!) Unless I'm missing somebody else, I'm pretty sure he's the one, and that's been a while now, too. See... hardly any time before it feels like you've been around forever. ;-)

Ok, dumb teenage moment over. No more caffeine for me, either. ;-p

Scott Hardie | August 12, 2006
I gave a five-pack of that Jones Soda away at a holiday party, the kind where each person grabs a gift from the pile or steals someone else's. I thought I was supposed to bring a gag gift, but the only laughter came from the recepient unsuccessfully pleading with people to steal it from him for the rest of the party.

Mmm, cheeseburger egg rolls. It's a little depressing that one of the local Oriental buffets has more American food items for the kids than they have sushi items. A friend dubbed the pigs-in-a-blanket "American rolls" in protest.

Kris Weberg | August 12, 2006
The guy at www.x-entertainment.com reviews the Jones Soda gag pack every year, apparently. Search the site and you can find his twisted comments and experiments on them. WARNING -- X-Entertainment is painfully pop-up heavy.

Jackie Mason | August 13, 2006
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Scott Hardie | August 13, 2006
I buy candy rarely and international candy even less often, so candy purchased as edible souvenirs at Epcot Center sparks the strongest memories. I recall buying a foreign knockoff of M&Ms at the Norwegian gift shop and being struck at how bland and nearly tasteless it was, as if it had just a faint whiff of chocolate and the rest was just there to chew. I threw out half the bag when even my friends wouldn't eat it. After reading what you said, Jackie, I still wouldn't eat it again, but now I think I get it.

Tony Peters | August 13, 2006
Red Beans are deffinatly an aquired taste...even afer three years it was only the rare red bean treat that I wouldn't throw away...you see the problem is that it looks just like a really tasty chocolate cream/pudding and when you are buying food in the local Sun Q's (think 7/11 only better...) unless you read spagetti (my name for Kanji) you just have to guess and hope that what you bought is tasty and not terrible...let me tell you when you guess wrong it's only rarely that the check out clerk will stop you from making a BIG mistake...more often they will watch the silly gaijin eat something strange. On a related note I was really happy yesterday when I realized that Starbuck's plain Green tea frapachino tastes almost exactly like green tea icecream

Scott Hardie | August 14, 2006
I knew green tea had become mainstream when the new vending machine installed this week at work had four rows of it.

I missed this discussion (and just about everything on TC) back in July, so let me offer you a belated welcome, Tony. Amy's glad to have you here and so am I.

Amy Austin | August 14, 2006
Ha! Thanks, Scott... I wasn't thinking about him when I said that Aaron was the newest, either! Well, you know what they say about familiarity... ;-p

Adrianne Rodgers | August 14, 2006
Oh boy....Mexican candy....don't get me started.....cucumber flavored lollipops......le yuck!

Aaron Shurtleff | August 14, 2006
Careful with the brussel sprouts soda! That's the best one of the holiday pack! Which is scary in and of itself. :P

Adrianne Rodgers | August 15, 2006
I don't know....the cranberry wasn't too bad, as I recall. But I don't know if those were the same holiday pack. Whatever. The point is, there's no possible way to truly enjoy those things, so long as you have teeth. Maybe I'll stockpile them in case I get a root canal or some other horrifying dental procedure near Thanksgiving.

Tony Peters | August 15, 2006
hey I've been here since April I'm not exactly new

Amy Austin | August 15, 2006
That makes you the "newest" before Adrianne, chum(;-p)...

(And long enough that you should GET A PICTURE!!!)

Scott Hardie | August 16, 2006
I wonder if there are recipes online that let you use those sodas as extra flavoring in actual food dishes. I'd look, but all I expect to find are how-to guides for Mentos fountains and gag alcholic mixes.

Tony Peters | August 16, 2006
I sent in a picture...I'm waiting to have it attached to ME

Scott Hardie | August 19, 2006
Sorry, Tony; it has to be a picture of you. I'd have told you sooner but I couldn't think of a way that didn't violate the privacy policy. Ever since I added the upload-your-own-photo tool, it has seen a lot of activity and I'm very pleased about that, but it has also seen a few users submitting photos of their favorite things instead of themselves. I don't mind the sentiment behind those, but I also won't place them on the site, for the same reason I make people use their real names instead of handles. If you don't want to show people your face, don't send in a photo; it's ok.