Gold leaf soft serve in Kanazawa, which manufactures nearly 100% of Japan’s gold leaf

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1. I didn’t feel like the gold leaf actually *tasted* like anything, but like most good soft serve in Japan it was fluffy.

   Also for those curious

   >Gold is considered “biologically inert,” meaning it passes through the digestive tract without being absorbed

2. Dumb.

3. I wouldn’t really call ice cream with gold on it japanese food….

4. /r/stupidfood

5. …Are you supposed to eat the foil? Like what is this? I don’t get it. I thought someone’s ice cream had trash blow onto it from the wind.

6. they couldn’t even make it look nice? lol

7. Reminds me of those first aid thermal blankets

8. It’s a very nice area – gold obviously doesn’t taste of anything and you really just buy it for the picture… Not sure how much it is now?

9. The naysayers are forgetting that they get to poop gold the next day. A rare opportunity to say ‘Hey, check this out!’ to your significant other after having dropped a deuce.

10. What is the purpose of this?

11. Tacky as fuck.

12. Oh I love gold’s taste. It’s so yummy (sarcasm)

13. is your poo poo sparkly

14. Yeah, that’s what I want flakes of metal on icecream. Tastes like metal tang with cream….

15. This stuff is a bit silly but it’s like 5 dollars. This isn’t Salt Bae

16. Heavy metals give you more bang for your buck. /s

17. I wonder if the local sewerage plant extracts the gold…. I mean it’s gotta add up right

18. I don’t think gold leaf on food ever looks good. Even on masterchef

19. Stupid

20. It’s a total waste of time.

21. Do you think it would be noticeable if they mixed it into the ice cream instead of shoving a sheet onto the side like animals? It would probably take too many sheets to notice

22. Imagine being so incomplete on the inside that you had to add gold to ice cream to for attention……..and still nobody cared.

23. This is awesome

24. I don’t think this is for show/decorative, but more like satire and/or an attempt to show how inexpensive this product is. We as the consumer give it the value across the world yet it is all based on the idea that it is a valuable item.

    Edit: My true opinion of the manufacturing is apart of the consumer mindset. To me this is a superb artform and a true prideful practice.