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Entertaining Japanese Food

May 17, 2004 6:39 PM
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Behold:

The jarring prominence of seafood in Japanese ice cream.

The shocking confluence of mayonnaise and tuna on Japanese Pizza.

The profound insight that the contents of Japanese lunch boxes should look as dope as the outside.


Comments: Entertaining Japanese Food

One thing I've heard of the Japanese doing (and I also witnessed in Hawaii) is putting red beans in the ice cream. But fried eggplant or chicken wings?

A lot of people in this country put mayonnaise on a kind of vegetable pizza.

Oh yeah, feel free to go into that bit about real pizza only being Jersey "pies."

Posted by: O'dell on May 17, 2004 7:48 PM | permalink

Haha ... FWIW, the best pizza is in NY -- not NJ. Chicago's also great. I haven't been thrilled with it elsewhere, but I don't eat much pizza.

I have had Japanese food with that red bean stuff -- green tea ice cream too. I wasn't a big fan of either.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on May 17, 2004 9:16 PM | permalink

The lunchbox contents may "look dope," but good heavens, what a gross mix of ingredients. That first one is a Hello Kitty made of cheese, with seaweed eyes and a ham hair bow.

Posted by: S on May 18, 2004 11:53 AM | permalink

...not to forget their curry-mania! Are they still hype with curries, btw.?

I think the ice cream thing is just which angle you see it from - but it's kind of weird. Getting such lunch boxes for school would have made me a very happy kid, though. There is just much devotion in it....

Posted by: mademoiselle a. on May 19, 2004 6:13 AM | permalink

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