(For a delicious snack?!?)
I’m not sure why, but the Japanese fascination for cute characters almost always seems to involve eating them. I showed a couple examples before with the Anpanman curry and Hello Kitty rice, but I found one last night that takes things to a whole other level –
It involves Pika-cannibalism
I went out to dinner in Shinjuku with a friend last night, and there was some temple festival going on in the Golden Gai. (A famous bar-filled area.) This means there were food vendors all up and down the sidewalks. We were going to a proper restaurant, but that didn’t stop us from charging up our appetites by stopping to check out all the food along the way.
It was then that we discovered this:
Pikachu bread-snacks!
And how does one manage to get sweet, tasty batter into a Pikachu shape? With one of these, of course:
I’d seen similar treats like this in Korea, but never with molds this detailed. (The ones in Korea were usually shaped like walnut shells or fish.)As if that weren’t odd enough, the bag you get your Pika-snacks in was what pushed things over the edge:
Yes, Pikachu is eating the snacks shaped like himself.
Now, I imagine that even Pokémon get hungry now and again, what with all the battling they have to do, but would they really want to eat snacks shaped like themselves? Think about it, they spend most of their existence cooped up in Pokéballs, only able to come out when their masters (“trainers”) want them to fight other kids for “Gym Badges” or other worthless trinkets. And then when they’re all worn out, tired and hungry from the senseless fighting, the only food they get is shaped like a miniature version of themselves?!?
Ash, you are one sick fuck, you know that?