The 32nd Flavor, Volume 2: Tasty Rape Cream...
Ok, welcome back to another installment of the 32nd flavor, where I find the ice cream flavor that didn't make the cut at Baskin Robbins. So what the hell is Rape Cream? Read on my friends, the answer lies within:
We were driving north from Misawa, with no plan as to where we were headed. Seeing signs for Osore Mountain, we decided to go check that out. It was a long drive to the north eastern edge of Japan. We kept seeing signs for the Nanohana Center, which my wife explained to me was a yellow flower that sometimes people ate and cooked with in Japan. She considered people who ate Nanohana to be somewhat odd; that's good enough for me, sign me up! I told my wife to be on the lookout for Nanohana Ice Cream, and sure enough, we found some.

It was tasty, a slight bit distant from vanilla, smooth, almost velvety. I wasn't quite impressed with my wife's translation of the word Nanohana, and I was curious as to what flavor I was supposed to taste; what was the "essence of Nanohana"? I realized a full-fledged Googling was in order, ASAP. (Note: googling hasn't made it into spell-check as a legit word just yet.) Here's what I found:

Nanohana means rape blossom, the flower of rapeseed, which is a major ingredient in vegetable oil and canola oil. I also learned that the leaves and stems are edible, comparable to kale and bok choy.
So, I'm still not finished fully exploring the flavor of rape, hopefully my research doesn't involve jail time. That reminds me, I highly recommend renting Prison Break, Season 1. I got mine from Netflix. I'm still judging how fast they get to an APO address.
1st Photo By Tokyo Slim, 2nd photo by Gary Houston
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