They Might Be Curly Giants!

It says a lot about two people who can stand being with each other on Valentine’s Day after a gift of garlic chocolates.

It also says a lot about how weird and silly some companies can be in trying to cash in on the Valentine’s Day mania.

Local company Takko Shoji had been developing the product from the end of last year, saying it wanted people to become more relaxed about eating garlic. After many trials, it was finally able to match black garlic, which has a sweet-and-sour taste resembling prunes, with the bittersweet taste of chocolate.

A spokesman for the company says he’s not worried about people being put off by the stinky breath from such chocolates.

"If both people eat them, there’ll be no problem," a representative of the business said.

Excellent reasoning, man! Pffft!

[link: Asian Offbeat]