Chocolate-covered dried shredded squid
Is one of the worst things I've ever eaten in Japan.

Shredded, dried squid is pretty good snack food, it's like a yummy, fishy teriyaki jerky. And while chocolate-covered bacon = heaven, giving dried squid the same treatment yields much stranger results.

If you're currently over there and curious, Japan has a chain of stores called Village Vanguard which carries this odd confection in various chocolate-covered flavors, including butter-garlic, kimchi, and hot curry.

Tastes (and smells) better than natto, at least.
(Ainadae, Mon 30 May 2011, 21:14, 2 replies)

wouldn't eat kimchi if you paid me

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 30 May 2011, 21:28, closed)

Indeed
I tried so many times to like natto but it never worked. I like every other fermented food I've encountered (sweaty cheese, kimchi, alcoholic things) but not natto. Dried squid I grew to accept, but I think I'd stay away from the chocolate covered variety, too.

You've just reminded me of some food I had living in Osaka so maybe I should post one. Now I wish I had seen a Village Vanguard. Where are/were you?
( the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Tue 31 May 2011, 3:38, closed)