Sublight: American Cheese, and I followed Fenris’s link to confirm it, is those slices wrapped in plastic that don’t lose their shape when melted. When melted, they stick to your mouth and taste like edible oil product. If you don’t have it in Japan, you should not feel left out. I’ll never forget that famous Simpsons scene:
Setting: midnight, in the kitchen
Homer takes something out of the fridge.
Homer: Mmmmm … sixty-four slices of American cheese … sixty-three … sixty-two … sixty-one …
[time passes, morning comes]
Homer: … two … one … zero ! [passes out on the table]
… and so on. Ugh. The thought of that much cheese product in one stomach sickens me beyond words. Although, at least it’s spelled ‘cheese’ - unlike ‘cheez whiz’ and so on.
Another veiled dig at British cuisine: they sell something called ‘Breakfast Baked Beans’, which is (as near as I can tell, my investigation ended on the grocery store shelves) baked beans with bits of breakfast meat (sausage, bacon?) mixed in. (I, and all the non-British people I have asked, picture baked beans with corn flakes, grapefruit, fried eggs etc mixed in. I don’t know that that’s less gross, actually …)
I’d like to vote in favour of all of the non-animal-product-containing items on this list: marmite, vegimite, PB, KD, blueberries, pickled things, mushrooms, olives, pumpkin pie, kimchee … they’re all alright by me ! (I don’t know if american cheese actually has animal product in it … if not, it’s the one exception !)
Watermelon flavour: RED is definitely the best artificial flavour. I prefer ‘strawberry’ or ‘cherry’, but if my red candy tastes vaguely like watermelon, that’s fine by me too. It all pretty much tastes Red to me.
I’ve been told that in Africa you can get Elephant Jerky … i would suspend my vegetarian principles breifly enough to have a bite of it … just out of curiousity …
