Friday, June 20, 2014

JAPAN QUALITY: Frozen Mousse

A stroll down the aisles of one of Tokyo's many convenience stores will rarely fail to deliver an unusual treat to sample.

Name: Mousse.  It is in the frozen food aisle so it is clearly frozen.

Flavour:   I am not sure but there's a picture of a white jelly that resembles a blancmange.   The girls's in the office inform me that it is milk flavoured.  Milk Mousse?

Appearance:  Packaged in what appears to be a toothpaste tube.

Taste:  Ripping off the top and squeezing out the "mousse" I am given the impression of some kind of carpenters putty.  It's soft and hard at the same time which maybe just due to the fact that it's 29 degrees outside.   In the mouth it feels like a cross between toothpaste and plasticine and not in a good way. It's not very milky or creamy as you would imagine something milky to be.  Just sweet.

Overall impression:  A child has added a load of sugar into a glass of skimmed milk along with a healthy squeeze of superglue and decanted it into an old tooth paste tube.

Buy Again?  No.  It doesn't taste of anything really and the texture is wrong.

                                                                                                                 text by simon void

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