Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Won't Miss #526 - mentaiko

Mentaiko sembei (rice crackers). I want to love you like so many others do. I really do. We are just incompatible.

I really am open-minded about food. I'll try nearly anything, and I'll even make a good faith effort to like things which I experience repeatedly. That being said, mentaiko, or spicy cod roe, and anything flavored with it was just not something I could come to like. The strange thing is that I can generally come to appreciate anything which is flavored with chili. Since I write a snack review blog, I've obviously sampled things which are mentaiko flavored. They always seemed to be "off" to me in some fashion. They either had a weird combination of spices or were just too "fishy".

Mentaiko is one of the most popular flavors in Japan and, unfortunately, I never came to like it and certainly do not miss it. 

4 comments:

  1. Thank goodness! I thought I was the only one. I just cannot warm up to mentaiko anything. :(

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    1. It actually also makes me feel better to hear that you also can't come to enjoy it. I felt as if I was being too picky about food!

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  2. No comments accepted on subsequent 2 posts. Are you doing this on purpose or by accident?

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    1. Hi, Richard. I mentioned in a previous post that I have to manually enable comments on every single post due to a Blogger bug that won't allow me to set comments to being allowed globally. In that same comment, I also mentioned that it's harder for me to track everything these days due to moving and some pretty stressful life events.

      The answer then is, it is by accident. I will enable them, but please be patient. At this point in time, I'm struggling to get my posts done at all. Thanks for letting me know.

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