Weirdest Japanese Snacks We Secretly Want to Try
Japanese culture is just plain weird, as we’ve addressed before. They have a high sense of honor and propriety, but that conflicts with the bizarrely sexualized world of Japanese animation and other forms of entertainment.
We now present a new facet of Japanese culture that we can all collectively scratch our heads at: food — specifically, snack food.
Everyone knows sushi and even shabu, but most of Japan’s cultural contributions to the field of cuisine haven’t been exported abroad, and with good reason. The foods you’ll find at a Japanese convenience store border on the surreal, often combining American brands with local flavors to make concoctions that are either disgusting or delicious. We’d have to take a trip to Tokyo to find out, but we don’t have that kind of money, unfortunately.
For now, we’re just puzzling over the weirdest Japanese snacks we could find, trying to imagine how snacks as bizarre as roasted baby crabs or wasabi Kit Kats might taste. We can only wonder, but we thought we’d share the slideshow with you.
Scroll through it above, or look through one of our older Japan slideshows below.
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Despite having the lowest obesity rate in the developed world, they need diet water.
Need a hand to hold? Get a forever alone iPhone case.
Bejeweled noose toys for kids.
Things like this…
And this!
They worship the penis.
Bug fashion?
Men have collections of love dolls. While they age, the girls stay forever young.
Their endless inventions of beauty gadgets.
The straight up mind-boggling insanity from Japanese television.
Violently bloody fluorescent light fights.
Their choice of animated facial expressions.
Seriously. Stuff like this only happens in Japan.
Breast milk dispensers for stay-at-home dads.
Cat sushi.
Looks like we won’t be hitting the snooze button after all.
She’s preparing for acid rain to fall from the sky.
They’re calling it… “donut head.”
Can I just take a quick nap on your lap?
Guys like this…
And women like this!
A better way to eat ramen.
Swimming lessons.
Poop snacks? We heard they taste just like Coco Puffs.
Just what we were looking for! Sagging boob scarves.
More inventive kids toys.
Is she the big spoon or the little spoon?
If you’ve licked one door knob, you’ve licked them all, right? Luckily, we’re germophobes and won’t be jumping on this trend.
The strange need for something as vulgar as this.
The only thing that comes to mind here is Ginuwine’s hit “Pony.”
Women get twisted and exaggerated canines, called Yaeba because they are obsessed with vampires.
