{"id":393,"date":"2007-03-03T19:59:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T00:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=393"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:13:21","slug":"japanese-snack-food-review-kurogo-pocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Kurogo Pocky"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nThey made more Pocky! So of course I had to pick it up because…ummm…they (the other they) may have also made more Pretz and I felt that I couldn’t pick up some new Pretz and not pick up new Pocky. So I did just that, except I spent a good deal of time dithering about it because…hadn’t I done Kurogoma Pocky<\/a> already? Except this was Kurogo<\/u> (no ma!) pocky which is different right? <\/p>\n

Kurogo…kurogoma…I STILL CAN’T READ JAPANESE!<\/strong> The two Pockies look the same, maybe they were and it was just a repackaging thing? Errr and a missing “ma” thing and what’s with all the Kurowhatsits all over the box and oh hell. I know people who know Japanese and I could always ask them what the difference was, if any, between the two.<\/p>\n


\nIt bothered me, though, that missing “ma”. I mean…”ma”. Was it one of those ‘flavoring’ words or what? Maybe it was a regional thing or a colloquial thing and adding “ma” made the Pocky sound trendy or more formal. Or maybe adding “ma” changed the word substantially. Hrrrmm. Not reading Japanese sucks. But! I remembered looking up kurogoma and discovering that it broke down into black and sesame and hey! One of the five kuros was<\/em> kurogoma. Huh. But what about the other four kuros? Black-Matsunomi? Black-Gome? What’s in<\/u> this Pocky anyway?<\/p>\n


\nAhhhhhHA!!! Black Sesame, Black Rice, Black Bean, Black Pine nut, and Black Chinese Orange! Five black ingredients and five Kurowhatsits on the Pocky!<\/p>\n

Wait-a-minute…Kuro-go. D’oah! Go. As in five in Japanese. Also as in five black ingredients. Also also as in I should have had this figured out much sooner than I did.<\/p>\n

Oh look over there! What could that be? A review? Why yes! It is! I have to say though, five ingredients is perhaps a bit busy in a Pocky. The black sesame was nutty with both a peanutty and a sesame flavor but also tempered with that nice smooth creamy Pocky coating. Kurogo has that same peanutty, sesame flavor as well as a hint of citrus bite from the orange plus a deep toasty pine nut flavor and also a depth of black beanieness and I have no idea what black rice tastes like. That’s a lot of flavors. I can’t even taste the smooth Pocky goo flavor there is so much going on in this Pocky.<\/p>\n

Kurogo is not bad…just busy. I think Kurogoma is a better, simpler Pocky and personally, I’d rather munch on that, but Kurogo is still tasty in its own multi flavored way. I taste tested Kurogo with a couple of Guinea Pigs and they too liked the Pocky but weren’t ready to form a Kurogo cult. Some thought they were a 4 pea Pocky, others thought they were a 3 pea Pocky and then there was the one 3.5 pea person (hi!). Hmmm. Well, I’d give Kurogo a 3.75 if there were fractional pea points given but there aren’t. Let’s call it a really, really, high (and busy!)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/a> of 3.5 wasabi peas<\/strong> out of 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":[11,22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35-peas","category-pocky","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}