Vlog: Jacksonville Burger

I am a fool who does "Coming of Age Day" in the most American tradition I know: eating burgers.

Check the vid!

For some reason the video doesn't fit into the screen... hmmmm.

Click the link for a direct youtube vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5sOrV1Wy-k

Japanese Cheetos

Who doesn't know what Cheetos are?

The puffed crispy strips of delightful nuclear orange cheesy powdery goodness, every kid in America has had a cheeto before. And everyone knows exactly how they taste. Salty crunchy, and artificially cheesy.

But alas, perhaps in an attempt to market to different tastes, cheetos, do exist here, but they taste different.

That's right, they taste different.

And no, I don't mean they sell "roasted corn" flavor here and Cheese flavor there (which they do). I mean that A cheese flavored cheeto from Japan tastes COMPLETELY different from a Cheeto from America.

I mean dang they aren't even the same color!

But Alas, as I mentioned before, they have other flavors besides cheese. Perhaps one of the most shocking is "Coffee Nougat flavor". Tirol, a chocolate company, teamed up with Cheetos to make this "collaborative effort"

Aka, a chocolate covered cheeto.

I am an adventurer, and so when I noticed the package labeled "Tirol x Cheetos", I simply HAD to purchase it.

Ohhhhh delightful.

Upon opening the package I was surprised to find that the cheeto itself was rather... boring looking. It almost looked like it just had Dusty Chocolate powder on it.

I mean really Fritos, what a lame looking snack!

But how'd it turn out?? That's the important question!

Kinda tasty actually. Think chocolate pretzel, but more crunchy, less salty, and a bit of coffee on the coating. Also Chocolate. And a cheeto. Wow.

Super surreal though. What a ridiculous snack.


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What the... soy flour mochi flavored chocolate covered?? TIROL YOU MONSTERS!!!

(I wish there was a better translation for that...)

Japanese Snow

Okay look look, I'm tired of this.

In Sapporo, it snows. ALL THE TIME.

I love snow, I love snow a lot. But I have one problem, my fluffy friend.

When you pack that snow down, over and over again by, say, the feet of a thousand rushing around college kids, things tend to become less fluffy and much more... icy.

Normally where I come from, the good ol US of A, this isn't a problem, since we have the beloved idea of shoveling the sidewalk. Then the way is clear, and walking is lovely. Nice, pretty, beautiful tufts of snow on the lawns, the trees, etc.

BUT IN SAPPORO, OH NO NO NO, shoveling the sidewalk DOES NOT EXIST.

I don't really have much to say about this one, except the ice is PACKED on, usually around a foot high at this point. The only time you see cleared sidewalks is when a company pumps hot water underneath the concrete to melt the stuff away via pipes built there, but if people don't have that, then they're just too lazy to clear it, and you get slick icy sidewalks. No salt, no shoveling, nothing.

They barely even clear the streets! I've seen cars skid EVERYWHERE.

The closest remedy you'll see is perhaps, some kind soul will sprinkle charcoal on the ground to embed itself in that caked-on mess of ice, providing a bit of traction.

But that's it.

Blows my mind really. I mean in America there'd be people suing as far as the eye can see with such a situation.

Last year over 1000 people slipped and had to go to the hospital in Sapporo ALONE. And not ONE of them sued?

WHAT A COUNTRY!

Time for some noodles...