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MMMM YUMMY.
Gorilla boogers are a Japanese snack. They're actually just a bunch of raisin-like black beans, I think, but they're marketed as those funk-nasty snot rockets that caged gorillas like to shoot at spectators at the zoo.
Gorilla boogers were a huge hit among the hoards of kids going to Ueno Zoo for their school field trip. According to the Mainichi Daily News, it was the best-selling product at a nearby Kiosk a few years ago.
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One of my favorite blogs, Neatorama, put up a link to a interesting internet find a Japanese snack called Gorilla Boogers. Leave it to the Japanese to integrate Engrish, primates, and amazing marketing tactics.
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Gorilla boogers? Where were those at? I was just at Ueno Zoo a couple days ago and would have bought some if I seen it haha.
Posted by: Andrew | January 28, 2007 at 06:31 AM
I guess these Gorilla Boogers are in family with these Danish bonbon's called Hundeprutter - or in English Dog Farts :-)
Yummy again!
http://slik.toms.dk/378/0/1
(I love your blog!)
Posted by: Sebastian David Tingkær | January 29, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Yuck. Kids like gross stuff.
Posted by: Dragonclaws | February 07, 2007 at 10:21 PM