# Bizarre Kikkoman flash **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 22, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228 "2002-11-22T20:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/1 "2002-11-22T20:27:48Z")
Submitted for your consideration: [This](http://yoga.tripod.co.jp/flash/kikkomaso.swf) and [This](http://yoga.tripod.co.jp/flash/kaijin.swf) Too funny. -mdf ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/2 "2002-11-22T20:35:16Z")
Lots of homoerotic stuff going on in the first one. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/3 "2002-11-22T20:47:54Z")
Why does this remind me of Mr. Sparkle? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/4 "2002-11-22T20:51:43Z")
“There’s your answer, fishbulb.” -Bart Simpson ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/5 "2002-11-22T20:52:53Z")
In the first one: What are those fried doohickeys? Kittens? Why are sugarcubes being bandied about? Does Kikkoman make them, too? Who hung the kitty and why? This reminds me of that bizarre Japanese soapbox video ad that Homer Simpson once watched. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/6 "2002-11-22T21:38:09Z")
How about why does Kikoman have a FISH SHAPED HEAD?!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![mdf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@mdf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mdf)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/7 "2002-11-22T22:12:00Z")
I was thinking salt crystal for cube-man’s head, and maybe hot mustard for the yellow pot-head [sub]heh. There’s definitely a pot-head involved here somewhere.[/sub] There was also a quick flash of another figure with “Heints” on its chest - mistranslated Heinz? Something else entirely? Dunno. mdf ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/8 "2002-11-22T22:20:11Z")
The kitty thing is a shrimp…I think ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/9 "2002-11-22T22:34:47Z")
The kitty things are tempura shrimp. (Cause, you know, they go well with soy sauce.) There was definately ketchup involved. Unfortunately, my somewhat limited Japanese didn’t process the rest of it fast enough in the face of “I never realized my soy sauce was gay before”. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/10 "2002-11-22T22:51:14Z")
Heh. These guys look like alternate characters in the “Too Much Coffee, Man” comic strip: Too Much Sugar Man Too Much Sake Man and, um, Too Much Sashimi Man? I’ve had days when I felt like Too Much Sake Man. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/11 "2002-11-23T00:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mdf \* > **There was also a quick flash of another figure with “Heints” on its chest - mistranslated Heinz? Something else entirely? Dunno.** The lyrics at that point sound a helluva lot lot “Ketchup something something mayonnaise-ah.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/12 "2002-11-23T00:21:20Z")
Fish head for fish sauce? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/13 "2002-11-23T00:22:39Z")
P.S. I’d like to recommend “Silver Swan” soy sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/14 "2002-11-23T19:59:47Z")
Soy sauce is made from soy And I think “shoyu” means soy sauce in Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/15 "2002-11-23T21:07:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Terminus Est \* > \*\*Soy sauce is made from soy > > And I think “shoyu” means soy sauce in Japanese. \*\* Yea, but what about “show me”? Why did he hang the kitty? Can somebody translate that? This isn’t official Kikkoman is it? Doesn’t showing Kikkoman in bed with that Sailor Moonish type female break some kind of law? Do Japanese people put soy sauce on bananas? Strange. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/16 "2002-11-23T22:00:35Z")
> [@](#): > > From: [http://yoga.tripod.co.jp/index\_e.html](http://yoga.tripod.co.jp/index_e.html) > > We are now working on inserting English subtitles. Um, good? ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/17 "2002-11-23T22:30:13Z")
Was it just me or did that cat look like one of the cats from the sad-kitty-in-a-box-singing flash animation from a while back? Soy sauce on bananas? _::shudder::_ ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/18 "2002-11-23T23:35:13Z")
Show you, show me. It’s a pun. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/19 "2002-11-23T23:36:23Z")
I don’t get the soy sauce on bananas, either. _Unpeeled_ bananas. ---
**Author:** ![Pigs\_in\_Space](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@Pigs\_in\_Space](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pigs_in_Space)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228/20 "2002-11-24T01:20:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pugluvr \* > \*\* > Why are sugarcubes being bandied about? Does Kikkoman make them, too? > Who hung the kitty and why? > \*\* I’m guessing tofu for the square head guy. No clue on the kitten. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-kikkoman-flash/138228.md?page=2)