review: unagi ice cream

it was just another day.

my husband was out running errands and comes back with a small tell-tale konbini plastic bag in his hand.

"i got you something for your blog!" he exclaims placing the small bag down on the counter.

"oh really?" i replied, examining the contents.

unagi ice cream.

"...serious?" oh god, i think.

"yeah!" he's serious.

so here goes.

eel ice cream, ladies and gentlemen.

now okay, some of you may be aware of japan's...odd ice cream flavours. most of them are like locally produced omiyage type things (like wasabi or beef tongue or...whatever) and not really the type of thing you see at konbini. but maybe circle K is an odd kind of konbini, because there it was.

maybe it's like unagi pie, i mean, that's delicious, right?

maybe it's just got like a hint of unagi sauce, which is just like soy sauce and mirin...so like sweet and salty? 

this could work.

i'm optimistic as i pry the lid off and take a big scoop off the top.

AND IMMEDIATELY REGRET IT BECAUSE OMG THIS IS SO NOT GOOD.

it's nothing like unagi pie because unagi pie is actually edible, enjoyable, downright delicious in fact. this is the COMPLETE OPPOSITE. 

it's sauce overkill. the ice cream is already flavoured with unagi sauce already, but for whatever reason they decided that wasn't enough and put in these broad ribbons of straight up sauce in there too for maximum saltiness impact. it's just bad. it's doubleplus bad. it might be the first time i've ever thrown ice cream out. ugh.