Fizzy eel drink developed in Japan

[paulham]

A new carbonated drink has been launched in Japan - made from eels.

The product has been developed to coincide with the country's eel-eating season and is said to have a taste akin to that of broiled eels.

Extracts of the bones and head of the fish are used to create the yellow drink, which also contains five vitamins - A1, B1, B2, D and E.

Japan Tobacco produces Unagi Nobori (which translates as Surging Eel) and the company claims it can boost stamina.

"It's mainly for men who are exhausted by the summer's heat," spokesman Kazunori Hayashi stated.

At an equivalent price of 65p, the drink costs about one-tenth as much as a portion of broiled eels.

Meanwhile, an ice cream expo is being held in the Japanese city of Yokohama this week, with flavours featured including eel and ox tongue, the Mainichi Daily News reports.

http://fdin.co.uk/news/index.php?type=related&news_article_id=18709236

That has to be disgusting.
I'll die at 70 and at least have enjoyed my food.

[loulou]

Get me  a bucket, i'm gonna spew.

[paulham]

And on a similiar vein.......
To celebrate the diversity of British culture, LateRooms.com, one of the UK’s leading accommodation websites, has created the world’s first ice cream that captures the ultimate ‘Taste of Britain’ in a single lick.

The huge ice cream contains 20 of the UK’s most popular regional flavours from traditional ‘clotted cream’ to the more wacky ‘sausage and mash’ scoop - making it the most flavoursome cone in the world.

Respondents were asked to pick flavours that best represented the UK, allowing brave taste-testers the chance to experience the extent of British regional dishes from Cornwall to Scotland…in one mouthful!


Top Twenty UK Flavours included in the Great British Ice Cream:

1. Yorkshire Pudding (Yorkshire)

2. Sausage & Mash (Cumberland)

3. Pork Pie (Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire)

4. Cheddar Cheese (Cheddar, Somerset)

5. Cornish Pasty (Cornwall)

6. Clotted Cream (Cornwall)

7. Lancashire Hot Pot (Lancashire)

8. Eccles Cake (Salford, Manchester)

9. Worcestershire Sauce (Worcestershire)

10. Haggis (Scotland)

11. Shortbread (Scotland)

12. Morecambe Bay Potted Shrimps (Morecambe)

13. Black Pudding (Bury, Lancashire)

14. Stottie Cake (Tyneside)

15. Haslet (Lincolnshire)

16. Red Leicester Cheese (Leicestershire)

17. Wensleydale Cheese (Wensleydale, Yorkshire)

18. Arbroath Smokies (Arbroath, Scotland)

19. Welsh Rarebit (Wales)

20. Kendal Mint Cake (Kendal, Cumbria)
For those brave enough to stomach it: all 20 flavours are available to try for free at Morelli’s ice cream parlour at Harrods, while stocks last, ensuring that everyone can get their very own ‘Taste of Britain’, regardless of what region they’re in.

http://press.laterooms.com/press-releases/britains-got-taste.html

Mmmmm, Haslet ice cream....

[smurfboy]

What's Haslet when it's at home?

[paulham]

A spiced cheap meat loaf.

It is typically made of stale white bread, pork (traditionally the entrails), sage, salt and pepper, and sometimes onion.

[loulou]

I've seen haslet in the deli and it is very cheap.

[paulham]

It is very moreish. That old one about arseholes, eyeholes and earholes.