Ah, the wonders of traveling abroad: beautiful foreign vistas, exploring unique cultures,
and eating the local cuisine... like fish-flavored Pringles and veggie-based Kit-Kats.
When you stop into whatever your international equivalent of a 7-11 might be, you'll find
that locals have different views on what makes snacking so delicious and fun.
Here are a few unusual snacks you'll find around the world.
Japan's spaghetti popsicle
Japanese ice cream company Akagi Nyugyo is not afraid to get weird, and their bizarre
taste in popsicles is no exception.
After the unlikely success of their corn chowder and cream stew-flavored treats, they went
even crazier, releasing a line of "Napolitan"-flavored popsicles.
What's Napolitan?
You may know it by its less appealing name: ketchup spaghetti, which isn't just for prisoners
and oldschool gangsters anymore.
Get past their nightmarish mascots and you're left with a sucker that smells like tomato.
If that sounds delectable to you, Japan awaits your visit.
Otherwise, just boil a pot of spaghetti like everyone else.
Without ketchup.
Spain's ham Ruffles
When you think of flavored chips, you probably think "sour cream and onion" or "extreme flavor-blasted
nacho cheese."
You probably don't think "ham"... but that's exactly what Spain has to offer.
Ruffles' Sabor a Jamon, which literally translates to "ham-flavored", is a salty snack food mixed
with a salty meat.
The Spanish Iberico pig and has a special place in local cuisine, with the finest grade
of ham being Iberico de Bellota, which is when the pig dines on tons of acorns, giving
its meat a succulent, nutty flavor.
So, how does that translate to potato chips?
Well, they look just like regular Ruffles, and have a hint of ham flavor to them.
Pick up a bag when in Spain if you like, but you'll probably do just as well to eat a regular
old ham sandwich.
And then go get some actual Iberico de Bellota, because that sounds delicious.
Asia's crab Pringles
You're not likely to find chips that taste like seafood in the US, but in Asia they're
all over the place.
Perhaps the strangest is Pringles' line of softshell crab-flavored chips, for those people
who love the taste of bottom-feeding crustaceans, but not the act of eating or preparing them.
Made from crab extract, which is probably a whole lot of fun to collect, these chips
apparently really do taste like crab.
Whether this is a good or bad thing is up to you, though if you're fine eating chips
that taste like bacon or beef hamburgers, a crab-chip doesn't seem like a huge leap.
Japan's weird Kit-Kats
If you live in the U.S., the craziest Kit-Kat flavor you've probably ever had is white chocolate.
Japan, however, is Kit-Kat crazy; they'll throw any flavor into the mix, and it'll probably
make money.
Kit-Kats became huge in Japan due to a combination of expert marketing and linguistic luck: "kitto
katsu" means "to surely win" in Japanese.
There are currently over 300 flavors of Japanese Kit-Kats, and a lot of them sound like somebody
made them up to ruin someone's day: wasabi, sake, pumpkin pudding, soybeans, purple sweet
potatoes, and roasted corn, among many others.
Most of these have no business being lumped together with chocolate.
And yet, clearly people enjoy them, because they're still being made.
How about throwing some of those cheesecake Kit-Kats our way, Japan?
You can keep the baked potato ones, thanks.
Japan's Mountain Dew Cheetos
You thought we were done with Japan?
"(singing in Japanese)"
Cheetos that taste like Mountain Dew is a perfect combination of the two nerdiest snacks
of all time.
Instead of settling down for a round of Skyrim with a bag of Cheetos and a 2-liter of Mountain
Dew, you can get everything you need in one convenient bag with no risk of spillage.
Sadly, these miraculous snacks were available as a limited-time offer back in 2014, so for
now, all you can do is hope Frito-Lay brings it back some day.
Until then, you'll just have to settle for Japan's Sugar Butter and Seaweed Salt Cheetos,
and hope that America will one day embrace flavors beyond "cheese" and "ranch".
One can dream.
Scotland's haggis chips
Outside of Scotland, haggis is perhaps the ultimate dare food.
If you can eat a sheep's heart, liver, and lungs wrapped up inside the sheep's own stomach,
then you're truly worthy of the kilt.
But good luck having authentic haggis in the States: anything with sheep's lung in it has
been banned in the US since 1971.
But that doesn't mean you can't have things that taste like haggis, though we can't guarantee
you'll enjoy it.
"Hoot man!
Ah smell that! It reminds me of the smells me memory used to make."
If actual haggis too much for you, perhaps Mackie's haggis chips would be a better starting
point.
After all, once you remove all the weird organs wrapped inside another weird organ, you're
basically left with the taste of lamb.
Want an even weirder flavor of chip?
Mackie's has you covered with prawn cocktail, venison and cranberry, roast ham, and even
whiskey and haggis, for when you need a bigger kick than what mere pepper can give you.
Pakistan's lemon and pepper Tang
There's Tang for just about any fruit out there — though good luck finding anything
but orange in the States.
"How come I can't get no Tang around here?"
You want lemon and pepper-flavored Tang?
Pakistan's got you covered.
It's hard to understand the wonders of lemon-pepper Tang, but showing various sweaty people gawking
at cool, dry people walking around with lemons does its best to demonstrate the refreshing
qualities of lemons and pepper, together at last in a drink.
"UNACCEPTABLE!"
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