Daughter’s reward results in crossover sweets.
Japan is fairly versatile relating to sandwich fillings. Certain, you’ll discover loads of examples of outdated standbys like ham-and-cheese or tuna with mayo, but additionally dessert sandwiches with sliced fruit, whipped cream, and/or chocolate.
So if something goes for Japanese sandwiches, why not pour some Japanese whisky in there too? That’s the most recent plan from Fuji Baking, which has created the Whisky Bonbon Snack Sandwich along with companion Nagahama Distillery.
▼ Nagahama Distillery introduction video
“Snack Sandwich” is Fuji Baking’s line of pocket sandwiches, of the kind that grew to become a success with overseas guests to Japan in the course of the Tokyo Olympics. Snack Sandwiches first went on sale in 1975 and are available all types of various varieties, however how did they resolve to make one with whisky? It began when Hirofumi Yamashita, the supervisor of Fuji Baking’s Nishiharu manufacturing unit in Aichi Prefecture, obtained a bottle of whisky from his daughter as a gift. Deeply impressed with its high quality and taste, he puzzled if there was a way Fuji Baking might do a joint venture with the whisky’s maker, which turned out to be Nagahama, based mostly two prefectures over in Shiga.
▼ That’s Yamashita on the appropriate. The ethical of the story is that when elevating youngsters, it’s best to train them to, as soon as they’re sufficiently old to take action, provide you with items of laborious liquor.
After placing their heads collectively, Fuji Baking and Nagahama come across the concept of crafting a whisky bonbon-flavor Snack Sandwich, utilizing Nagahama’s spirits, in fact. What adopted was an in depth and thru testing section through which the event workforce repeatedly experimented with completely different ratios of chocolate cream to whiskey till they discovered the optimum mixture…or possibly they discovered the proper ratio immediately and easily held off on telling their bosses about it for some time, because it’s laborious to think about a extra pleasant work venture to have working lengthy than one which includes consuming chocolate and whisky. In any case, Whisky Bonbon Snack Sandwiches are on sale as of November 1 at supermarkets and drugstores in Japan’s central Chubu area.
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