Gari Gari Kun Genki Drink

Japanese Food Review #100

Wow. 100. Obviously there have been a lot of tear-filled speeches today given by myself to a mirror. Umm, I want to thank Girlbot for all of her hard work. Couldn't have done it without you... unless maybe if I got a chicken that randomly pecked at the numbers 1-10. That probably would have also worked, but thank you. I also want to thank the two or three of you who bothered to comment on the food reviews. It's really good to know that you think I'm an idiot. I guess that covers everyone. Let's get to the review.

We have looked at a couple other Gari Gari Kun popsicles before, the spaghetti version and the stew one. They were both horrible. Today we are looking at the genki drink flavor popsicle. Genki drink means energy drink. They're slightly different in Japan, but this is basically Red Bull flavor. The popsicle doesn't contain any bull semen or even caffeine. It did, however, have both apple and pineapple juice.

It smelled like an energy drink, and the first taste did provide that sort of weird energy drink aftertaste. But the more I ate, the more it tasted just like fake pineapple, or maybe some tropical popsicle.

Ratings:  
Gaybot: 6  It wasn't bad and for the price, ¥66, it is a great value.
Girlbot: 7  She said it reminded her of when she was in high school and drank a lot of energy drinks.
Overall: 6.5

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