The World in Chips

Cherry Blossom Funyuns – Japan

Luckily for us, this brand didn’t actually try and market flower-and-onion flavored chips. Released in Japan in time for Cherry Blossom season, the bag of these limited edition Funyuns is decorated with pink flowers, but they’re actually flavored with shrimp — shrimp and onion being a much less insane combination than flowers and onion. If you want to try these for yourself, you’ll probably have to wait until the spring, but they have been found on Amazon in the past.

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