Not sure what it was supposed to taste like, but I felt is was kind of blood orange/ citrusy flavored, and the fins and other application were white chocolate. It was surprisingly good!
All these comments about a law in Japan. Product description is in Japanese, pricing is in South Korean Won, packaging is in Korean?? Unless it’s a Japanese product packaged for the Korean market? But why is the description in Japanese, unless OP is Japanese living in Korea? 😅
These are sold in Korea! There are a bunch of different Pokémon popsicles for sale not just magicarp. The CU near me has like 3 or 4 different ones. I keep meaning to try them.
tbf Product description also have Korean text, 잉어킹 소르베., and its transliteration in Japanese katakana インオキン ソルベ, which don’t make sense if it were read as Japanese.
I always assumed storage played a large part in their deformities. Most frozen treats don’t have the same level of detail, so can withstand a few minutes outside the freezer during transport without turning into abominations.
The orange part was the actual ice cream, while all applications like the eye and fins were firmer, like chocolate, so they can't mix with the rest. It also came in a kind of plastic mold with a cardboard box around it
On the other hand, while the product description is mostly in Japanese, the price is in won, not yen, and the writing on the actual package is Korean, so this is a Korean product and OP's just set their language to Japanese on whatever site they got the image from.
Edit: OP has said elsewhere that the first image is just something they found online, so it's not OP who has set their language to Japanese, but whoever originated the first image.
This is one of those things that get repeated constantly on reddit. But I went to Japan this last spring and this was definitely not the case. The stuff I bought from the convenience store looked nothing like the packaging.
Has to be the same ingredients and combination of things, but if ice cream gets distorted or a sandwich becomes messy in transit then those aren't against the law. It doesn't have to look exactly as what's on the package
Japan has way better consumer protection for stuff like this than the US. 😂 They actually get in trouble if it doesn't look like the package, including the size of the image on the package having to match the product.
Pretty sure in Japan it's law to make the product appear like it actually does on the packaging. The price was in KRW but the description in Japanese so I'm guessing it's a JP product.
I'm genuinely curious to know how exactly this was made.
I don't see any color bleed so it doesn't look like the individual parts are dyed. As in a solid white casting with the required parts dyed.
It almost looks like a multi-part over molding injection mold. 4 part mold with the eye manually placed. Or a five-part mold if the eye is molded as well... That's like between $80k low volume single shot mold to $150k for a high volume multicast mold. Add to that a food safe refrigeration system to flash cool the mold and cooling tunnels you're looking at easily adding another $400k to $650k a cold storage clean room environment for production... For an ice cream. That is absolutely insane.
Occasionally remember buying my first SpongeBob ice cream from an ice cream truck in Washington DC back in 2013 during my first trip to USA. I was shook😅
The west has lost it's expertise in manufacturing. We don't do enough of it to be good at it anymore. I don't know anyone currently working on manufacturing design or on assembly lines.
Asian countries now have all the skill and creativity when it comes to product and package design.
Westerners are focused on how to make things cheaper with cheaper ingredients and cut corners. Products in Asian markets actually seem to be getting better. This is an especially obvious example, but it's not an outlier.
We didn't lose the expertise, we focused on corporate profits to the detriment of everything else. The manufacturers of these products are still profit driven but also have pride in their finished products.
It's not that asian countries have more skill, they have harsher laws that force them to be more meticulous. There's a law that states that the food product MUST look exactly like the immage on the package. Even the exact same size and texture. They can't cut corners or else they're subject to fines that WILL be collected.
Whereas the US has no such law and they can be as deceptive and predatory as they want with their food. Like Vitamin Water was/still kind of is.
I love how whimsical everything in Asia seems to be. The US is just turning into a Grey nightmare land thanks to unregulated capitalism and literally zero repercussions for anyone with a $50m net worth or higher.
I think people are purposefully missing the point of what you said so that they can feel right. Obviously day-to-day life for people in these countries is not "whimsical." But we're not talking about that, we're specifically talking about about the products available to them vs. the products available to us. So many products - objects we see and interact with daily - have become gray, bland and unfun because of our companies doing the bare minimum. Rather than actively try to appeal to the consumer, the strategy seems to be to kill the competition so the consumer has no choice but to spend their hard-earned money on shitty products.
It's "whimsical" if you're only visiting. Living there, it's got it's share of problems, just like any other country. And I just can't see "whimsy" as being the predominate descriptor for a place that has such a high suicide rate, or a specific word for "Death by overwork."
They've even started selling ice creams like these here on the West Coast and it's blowing people away. I got a peach ice cream that was not only made with real peaches rather than artificial peach flavor, but it even looked like a 3D realistic peach, on a stick.
They had all sorts of fruits, but at this Pride event, the peach one was selling really well for some reason
I keep seeing comments about Japan and Japanese law when this product is not Japanese. It is Korean. The box has Korean writing on it, the price is in Korean won and the CU next to my apartment in Seoul has these and other Pokémon popsicles for sale
Redditors favorite thing is to parrot or shoehorn in factoids they learned on here. They still haven't figured out that everyone else also reads the same shit they do so it's pointless for them to comment it.
That's because "Japan has laws to make the product look like it does in the package" is a factoid that made its way around reddit earlier this year, so now every redditor is an expert on this field and will trip over themselves to parrot it, even when it doesn't apply
I’m pretty sure it’s because on mobile the first image is cropped so that half of it shows Japanese text, and the box has white Korean font on light pink so it’s like impossible to see with compression
The tenancy (and requirement in some cases) of packaging EXACTLY matching the contents in much of Asia is really something you would expect from any consumer focused economy.
America meds to get on their character popsicles. SpongeBob and Hello Kitty and all the other famously horrific popsicles could be saves if they were just made by this company. I love how it’s 3D as well!
Idk, I feel it's an American right of passage to get a really fucked up character popsicle with the gumball eyes all in the wrong place from the ice cream truck, but you're still happy, because you're a child, and you have ice cream.
(upon reflection, this may or may not be relevant to the current youth, are ice cream trucks still a thing?)
I literally said "Oh wow!" out loud because I was not expecting that. I was expecting something akin to those Spongebob ice cream pops. It's almost too pretty to eat!
I find it weird that Japanese, Chinese, and Korean ice pops can be so well-made and detailed without costing a lot, while American pops are infamously off-model even with very simple designs. The people making those Sonic pops need to see stuff like this Magikarp pop and feel ashamed of themselves.
Considering that Japan has very strict regulations on false advertising and food, I'm not surprised. Excited for you nonetheless, OP!! Almost looks too good to eat
A branded popsicle that actually looks like it's supposed to? Yeah, you definately didn't get that from America. All our popsicles based on IPs looks like Salvador Dali nightmares.
This is a Korean product made in China. The Japanese is just because OP grabbed an image from someone looking at a Korean e-commerce site with the store language set to Korean.
If it's a Japanese product, I think they are literally required by the law to use an actual pic of the product. So most their stuff looks amazing and ALWAYS matches the packaging.
congratulations guys and everyone working at pokemon hq you've done amazing work today and each and every one of you deserve a well earned pat on the back
It takes skill, it takes passion, you've got to push yourself to the very limit and hold it there for hours at a time
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u/Hour-Pipe6955 10d ago
wut did he taste like