Stew Popsicle Review

Japanese Food Review #72

Gari Gari is a type of cheap popsicle in Japan. It's a normal popsicle on the outside and chunky on the inside (it's supposed to be like a snow cone). Normally the flavors are sweet, but last year they made a corn pottage flavor popsicle, and this year we have a stew one. It should be pointed out that stew, pronounced shi-chew in Japanese, is almost always a white cream based stew in Japan. The package boasts that there are real potatoes inside.

First I licked the outside. It was sweeter than I expected. It was almost vanilla ice cream flavor, but then there was a fairly gross stew aftertaste. I bit in. It was not good, but clearly it was edible. Another bite. Hit a potato chunk. Pretty disgusting. It was a real potato, and it was soft, which means there's some weird chemical keeping it soft in the freezer. I took one more bite. Got a couple more potato chunks. Decided that was enough. I ran it under some water. Of course many of the chunks fell away, but you can see that there were a lot of sizable hunks of potato.

Ratings:
Gaybot: 2 It wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but it still shouldn't exist.
Girlbot: 3 She agrees that it's not that bad, but she can't eat it. She took one bite, seemed pleasantly surprised and said, "Hmm, it's very bad."
Overall: 2.5