Could we pleeeeeeease have more than one of the new and absolutely awesome "taco salad" on sale in a store at the same time? Have to keep "fighting" eachother over who gets to eat that and who has to make do with other stuff...
Background - conbinis tend to have three categories of ready-made food:
Old classics, that have been there forever and never change. For example those specific cold chinese noodles or D's chicken bento.
Super-temporary stuff that is only available for a few weeks during some special campaign. Two previous ones were curry-festival-everything and extralarge-instead-of-regular-chicken.
New stuff that shows up without announcement and sometimes very rarely becomes a classic, but more likely just disappears after a random time period from a month up to a year.
The previous best thing, butter chicken curry, was from that last category. Got to eat it for about half a year, whenever they had any (was frequently sold out, so don't think we were the only fans (pun intended)), now for the past half it's just gone.
The abovementioned taco salad (and its also good cousin butter-chicken salad and the terror of fish paste salad that they tricked me into getting by having a similar package) is likely from the same category, so whenever they have any, it comes home with me (not the nightmarish anchovy one, ofc). But why the heck do they only ever put out one portion, I will never understand.
Also the thing has probably the most honest advertising ever.
Imagine a thick sauce-thingy stuck into the bottom of a deep and narrow plastic cup. Covered by a layer of barley, covered by chopped cabbage and some toppings, filled to the very lid of the cup. Sentence on the side (In Japanese, of course) proudly claims: "Hard to mix, but very tasty!"
Yeah, as promised, the only way to eat the salad without feeding the cockroaches by spilling half of it all over your table and floor, is to spend a couple of minutes scraping the contents and the stuck sauce from the bottom of the plastic cup into a large enough bowl, adding some cheese and mixing it there. To be eaten with a famichicki, naturally.
Total summerfood win, this one. Until it lasts... Want to bet that if any, they will keep the fish-poison?
Cheers,
Hedi
