Possumblog

Cacahuates Japonés

We had to stop last night on the way home to pick up some paper towels and olives (we needed them for our favorite Absorbent Cellulose Salad) and the store has a small section of Spanish-language labelled food and housekeeping stuff over by itself, and I noticed a little bag of gray-beige nodules.

"Oh, it's food," I said to myself, after reading the ingredients, which were in English. I put them back and turned to leave, but just then a hunger pang hit, and a hard peanut snack that has caca as its first syllable suddenly sounded pretty good. So, I turned around and went back and got myself a package of them.

I'd never had this stuff before, and I have to say, they're pretty good. Crispy hard shell that was almost sweet, but not quite, and very nearly salty, but not really. But undoubtably a peanut inside of it all. Pretty interesting flavor. I'm still kinda at a loss as to what constitutes the Japanese part, though.