Peanutbutter and Vegemite

[Name_not_found]

Is Peanut Butter to your country what Vegemite is to mine?

In the USA Vegemite is a very unique flavor, not many are familiar with it and its strange to most, for lack of a better word.

I have heard that peanut butter like this to other places, and that something like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is some kind of nightmare, where here it is commonly considered comfort food.

Whats it like where you are?

[laughing_man]

In Japan, I think that it is miso.
Miso is the food which fermented the soybean.
We make miso soup, miso dengaku, etc.
Japanese love miso!

[Name_not_found]

Miso i am familiar with as soup, i think its pretty good

There are some other things i am less familiar with from Japan

Laughing_man have you had this before? (or mind translating the cooking directions for me)


NNF

[laughing_man]

Oh! It is oden
It is surprise that the United States has oden
At all the convenience stores in Japan, if we become winter, we can buy hot oden.

Laughing_man have you had this before? (or mind translating the cooking directions for me)

It can eat only by heating.

When heating with hot water
Heat for 5 minutes with the boiling water in a pan without opening a bag.

When heating in a pan
Move contents in a bag to a pan, and heat them.

When warming with a microwave oven
Move contents in a bag to a deep dish, cover with a food wrap, and heat for 5 minutes (in the case of 500W) with a microwave oven.

[Name_not_found]

Thank your for help with the cooking instructions

It is surprise that the United States has oden

There is no oden in USA this one picked up while visiting recently.

[rationtin440]

laughing_man, do you know if civilians in Japan are permitted to own JGSDF rations? Also are the rations made under special contract, or are the ration items available in any food store as civilian food? Thanks!

[laughing_man]

laughing_man, do you know if civilians in Japan are permitted to own JGSDF rations?

I think that it is a gray area.
There is no law which forbids a civilian from having ration.
However, SDF does not allow a civilian to eat the ration which is equipment of SDF.
(When it is not emergencies, such as an earthquake.)
And SDF does not interfere about whether a soldier actually eats the ration provided to the soldier.
Even if it transfers to a civilian, without a soldier eating ration, SDF does not complain.

Also are the rations made under special contract, or are the ration items available in any food store as civilian food?

All Japanese rations are the special items for SDF.
The supermarket does not sell them.
However, since the number of rations is insufficient, an division and a regiment buy the rations of a consumer product for training with their budget.