{"id":491,"date":"2007-12-30T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T17:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=491"},"modified":"2007-12-30T14:15:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T19:15:58","slug":"sake-ame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Sake Ame"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nMore candy from the Great J-List Snack Buying Extravaganza of Aught Seven. I actually requested these among the list of snacks I thought would be a fun addition to the review because I like sake and a sake candy sounded fun and unusual. And also Japanese. Does America make beer candy? I mean other than root beer? Not to my knowledge but the Japanese don’t think twice about whipping up a sake candy. After all, they made tomato candy<\/a> so sake candy is really rather hum drum if you think about it.<\/p>\n

The thing I liked about this sake candy, and some of my pigs did not, is that it tastes like chunky sake. You know the good stuff that has a rich ricey flavor rather than the processed sake flavor? That’s what these taste like. It’s not a taste for everybody but if you like the more “rustic” tasting sake, you’ll like these. <\/p>\n


\nIt even has a fun pic of some sake making dudes on the bag. Heh. <\/p>\n

One thing against the candy, other than the taste if you aren’t so much into the chewy sake, is that the candy is a little bitey. Don’t be so enthusiastic with the candy sucking because you may get lacerated for your efforts. The candy also has a more granular center so it tends to break up before it gets to that point which can also be a tad pointy. I would have preferred a smoother hard candy but oh well. I do like the creamy white and the packaging. Pretty.<\/p>\n

Personally, I’d give these a 4 pea rating but my pigs weren’t as enthusiastic about them as I was. Rob, I’m sure, will agree with my 4 because these are fantastic in comparison to a lot of other Japanese hard candy. However, in the American mindset they might not be so splendid. Eh. I’ll let my pigs sway me but I do have the final say. So when I say that Sake Ame gets a<\/p>\n

Rating<\/a> of 3.5 wasabi peas<\/strong> out of a possible 5 wasabi peas, think of it as a really, really enthusiastic 3.5 peas. Almost as if it might be a 3.75 if I did quarter pea points.<\/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":[11,25,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35-peas","category-hard-candy","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quirkspace.com\/jsfr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}