[CH] new japanese snack...
KnoxBill Jernigan (billjernigan@iqonline.net)
Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:37:44 -0500
ok, first, you need to take a look at the site, so you'll have some
idea of what i'm talking about...
http://tohato.jp/products/habanero.html
note: you need flash to view it, and when the site is busy, it looks
dead...keep trying...i think that is an actual picture of el
grande...
surfing around the site, i decided that it was probably a hab
flavored carmel corn, since their main product is carmel corn, in all
the favorite flavors, like strawberry and vanilla...(their latest
addition to the line, except possibly habanero, is crab flavored
carmel corn...mmmm...my favorite...)
then i discovered strawberry pretzels, and what looks like extruded
potato 'rings' which bear some resemblance to the rings in the hab
commercial...hmmm...could it be carmelized slices of hab?...
now...drop down to the second product(?) listed below...the one with
the pic of the halloween hab (hi, jeff) and the regular hab...if you
dig thru all the gibberish (at least on my monitor, it's gibberish),
you'll find "Red Savina Habanero The world's hottest spice"...are
these slices of red savina?...
the movie is not much help...a tray of orange habs, and a woman in a
paper mask, (a *paper* mask?) apparently crushing some habs in a
mortar, and handling a bowl of slices...is that the product?...
it is obviously a big product announcement -- elsewhere on the site,
they have pics of whole stores decorated to introduce the hab-
whatevers...
whoda thunk that the japanese would go wild over habaneros?...
anybody able to translate this?...and those slices really called
'rings of fire'?..and if not, why not?...