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McDonald’s Japan potato shortage continues to be an opportunity for competitors using local growers.
”Do we want ramen or fried food?” we asked ourselves, and the answer was “Both, obviously.”
The ramen croquette is here to satisfy all our guilty pleasure hunger food cravings at once.
Is this a country-fair style affront to Japanese cuisine, or a delicious idea we should have thought of sooner? Our reporter Meg finds out.
We imagined that this would be either amazingly good or excruciatingly bad, and we were right.
Where Japan has taken Kit Kats (originally an English treat) to a whole ‘nother level with seasonal flavors, regional flavors, even “adult sweetness” varieties, America has taken a similar road with another chocolate goody: Oreo cookies.
Intrigued by America’s fascination with Oreos, one Japanese cook took her chances at making a fantastically American concoction: Bacon Fried Oreos. But how does the Japanese palate react? Find out after the jump.
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