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McDonald’s Japan Getting Candied Sweet Potato Fries (That Aren’t Sweet Potatoes)

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So you might think if McDonald’s in Japan was gearing up to offer new candied sweet potato fries they might, I don’t know, use sweet potatoes. That’s not how they roll at the Japanese Golden Arches though. No, they are using their normal potato fries, and then selling them with some sort of weird looking sweet sauce that has black sesame seeds in it.

These are even stranger than those chocolate fries we saw back around Halloween. The name of the dish translates roughly to “Japanese Style French Fries Candied Sweet Potato Flavor.” Apparently, these things are called “University Fries” in Japan because they were popular with college students in the 1900’s.

I love me some McDonald’s fries, but making normal potato fries taste like sweet potato fries seems like an excellent chance to use actual sweet potatoes.

[via Kotaku]

McDonalds Japan Rolling out Purple Sweet Potato Milkshake

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I am a fan of some Asian food, at least when it’s been Americanized. I am not such a fan of some of the strange foods served in Japan, they seem rather gross to me. Case in point: McDonald’s in Japan is set to roll out a new milkshake for fall that is called Purple Sweet Potato, or at least that is what the name translates too.

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It’s apparently called marasaki imo in Japan. Apparently, this is serious fall food in Japan; someone who lives there will have to verify that for me. It will go on sale in Japan on September 10.

Perhaps in Japan, this flavor shake is no stranger than Pumpkin Pie (or a Shamrock Shake) is here in the U.S. Regardless of how weird it sounds to me, it’s sort of cool to hear about the food McDonald’s serves in other countries.

[via Kotaku]