Giant Japanese Jellyfish Turned into Candy
Recently, Weird Asia News reported on the imminent invasion of Japan by legions of humongous jellyfish. The 6-foot-wide, 440-pound monsters known as echizen kurage threaten to devastate fisheries and even damage nuclear powerplants.
The pressure to find a practical use for these troublesome creatures has triggered the usual creative reaction from the Japanese. Unfortunately, “creative” and “appetizing” are not necessarily synonymous. Um, jellyfish caramels, anyone?
That’s right: In what is surely a first for the confectionery world, students at Obama Fisheries High School have developed a type of caramel candy flavored with a powder made of jellyfish. The students harvested the critters themselves, as well as devising the process for producing the powder.
Word hasn’t reached us yet on the taste of these scary-sounding sweets, but it probably bears some similarity to that of the team’s previous product, the not-quite-an-international-sensation-just-yet Ekura-chan saku-saku cookies, also jellyfish based.
Where to from here? The possibilities seem endless. It can’t be long before we’re introduced to the peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich, the jellyfish jellyroll, the jellyfish-flavored jellybean. And for God’s sake, someone get in touch with the folks who make Jell-O!
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By DanBing on 03-10-2009
Comment by Pamela
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
HHHHhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm,maybe jellyfish jello or jellyfish based jelly.Maybe even a cellophane made with jellyfish. There must be a lot of things that can be made with this substance.
Hey,how about coming up with ideas for using Kudzu.Now that is also something to work on.
Comment by Yoo
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Kudzu is already thought of as a hangover cure. If only the college ids of the south knew that…
Comment by Pamela
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
hahaha,They would more then likely try to smoke it.
Comment by kai
October 4th, 2009 at 12:36 am
well, the Asian world already have shredded jellyfish as an appetizer, it wouldn't be a surprise if and when Japanese gobble this new treat up…
personally i wonder what would fried jellyfish taste like.
Comment by Brad F.
October 4th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Funny. I was at a wedding dinner Saturday night and jellyfish… just straight jellyfish… was served as an appetizer. It looked like it was the tentacle looking part. I don't know what they did to it, but it was slightly crunchy. I won't say I'm a fan of it, but it wasn't bad.
Comment by puu
October 5th, 2009 at 4:48 am
wait, did they name their high school after president obama?
Comment by a japanese
October 5th, 2009 at 5:10 am
No
Obama = 小浜, its a city name in japan.
Obama Fisheries High School is here.
http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?q=%E5%B0%8F%E6%B5%9...
Comment by quantum
October 10th, 2009 at 1:26 am
I eat Sea cucumbers and black moss regularly as delicacies.
Comment by A-nun-a-mus
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:53 am
i would smoke it…
Comment by dev
November 12th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
i eat your mom, but i wouldn't call it a delicacy.