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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Pamela
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.
Yoo
Kudzu is already thought of as a hangover cure. If only the college ids of the south knew that…
Pamela
hahaha,They would more then likely try to smoke it.
A-nun-a-mus
i would smoke it…
kai
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.
Brad F.
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.
puu
wait, did they name their high school after president obama?
a japanese
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…
quantum
I eat Sea cucumbers and black moss regularly as delicacies.
dev
i eat your mom, but i wouldn't call it a delicacy.
Spongebob
but…but…jellyfish are our friends! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
TheCoYote7777
i agree. look at thoes majestic giant groups getting slaughtered. it is a travisty to hurt anything as harmless as these giant jellyfish. they are a miricle find. wow. how dare any of us say they are a threat to the environment. you kill one species and another species will grow and gather in groups too. how long will the violence go on?
Tired
Shut up