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Sweat-flavored fried chicken? Maybe It's an 'acquired' taste

August 1, 2017

KFC has gotten a reputation for going to outlandish lengths to market its fried chicken, but the Colonel has been outdone — by the Japanese. 

The Japanese fried chicken take-out chain, Tenka Torimasu, has introduced a new "girls' sweat"-flavored sauce, according to rocketnews. The chain, which has a handful of branches, mostly in Tokyo, specializes in boneless Japanese-style fried chicken chunks, called karaage (No Americans, not carnage, karaage). 

It's a specialty that depends on an assortment of sauces to amp up the flavor through spicy mixtures like wasabi mayonnaise and cheese curry, but apparently those were a little too blasé, and now the chain has launched its girl's sweat-flavored sauce. 

The flavor is not just "generic "girl-next-door" sweat flavor, however. It's that of young rock idol members of a popular music group, Kamen Joshi, who perform in hockey masks, a la the "Friday the 13th" movies.

This, said one of the group's members is "the birth of the karaage people have been dreaming about." 

Thing is, it doesn't pass the test around the going trend of "real" ingredients because the report said this is notactually made with real rock idol sweat. Instead, the flavor is inspired by cheese, salt and lemon juice. If you're using U.S. dollars for a sample of this LTO, you'll need $3.60, and you'll need to get to Japan by Halloween when girls' sweat will be all back on their bodies, we presume.