{"id":242,"date":"2004-05-02T10:42:02","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=242"},"modified":"2007-08-14T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T22:54:08","slug":"japanese-snack-food-review-porute-whipped-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Porute (Whipped Cream)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CocoaPorte.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/boo\/images\/CocoaPorte.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPorute &#8220;Whipped Cream&#8221;<br \/>\nIf you take a gander back to Valentines Day of this year you will find these fella&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/141.214.84.74\/~jeannie\/blog\/index.php\/?p=339\">strawberry flavored<\/a> siblings.  You might also notice that these are Por<b>U<\/b>te and not Porte like the strawberry variety, which had me a tad confused.  I mean, they look about the same, they are packaged just about the same and they taste about the same&#8230;save the whole strawberry and not strawberry thing.  Our current theory is that it is a bad English translation and they both should be either Porte or Porute.  If anyone has a different and more plausible theory, let me know. Otherwise I&#8217;m going with the Engrish.<\/p>\n<p>These, like the strawberry, had a dusting of cocoa on a chocolate shell and a cookie crunch.  The whipped cream filling (the only thing that differed from the strawberry) was nice, light and creamy in an airy and less dense Three Musketeers way but with a hint of alcohol.  It was a more subtle flavor that strawberry so the whole bitter cocoa dusting and sweety sweet strawberry dichotomy was missing.  Not to say that these were bad, I just think the flavors were more dynamic in the strawberry.<\/p>\n<p>The alcohol taste (maybe bourbon?  Possibly port?  Hard to tell) isn&#8217;t overpowering either, which does not subtract a point from the rating.  Normally I would knock half a point off of anything carrying with it a strong alcohol taste, since it&#8217;s one of those flavors (like coconut) that seems to have a 50\/50 chance of being tolerated or not, but the Whipped Cream Porute is very light on the alcohol.  I didn&#8217;t even notice it until Rob mentioned that he thought he might taste a bit o&#8217; booze on the Porute.  It&#8217;s a very sneaky flavor indeed, so much so that I am going to go out on a limb and say that those of you who don&#8217;t much like alcohol tasting things might at least give this one a chance.  I don&#8217;t know anyone of that persuasion so I don&#8217;t have an appropriate Guinea Pig.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, these Whipped Cream Porute are pretty much like their strawberry cousins; good cocoa bitter dusting, nice melty chocolate, sweet whipped filling and a satisfying cookie crunch.  We really liked these &#8220;porute&#8221; and decided to go with a <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?page_id=2\">Rating<\/a> of <b>4.5 Wasabi Peas<\/b> out of a possible 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45-peas","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}