Took a Bite out of Rancid Onigiri

I tried searching up rancid or expired onigiri on google and apparently no one has ever posted online about their experience with it so I’ll take it upon myself to share mine.

So for some background context this was an onigiri from FamilyMart and I usually buy one early in the morning to get my day started. But one day I was busy so I left it in my backpack to hopefully eat later that day. Now this was 1-2 weeks ago. Fast forward today, I did the same thing again, forgetting I left that original onigiri there a few weeks back. To my dismay, I open up my backpack and grab the first onigiri I see, the old one. It did look kinda sketch at first. Much tighter plastic wrapping, very moist seaweed, and very pungent matcha-like smell.

Opening up the onigiri was a real struggle, the seaweed’s moistness kinda contracted and disformed the whole thing leaving the plastic wrapping insanely difficult to unwrap. I had to deconstruct the whole thing to even be able to open it up. When I finally deconstructed the whole thing, some of the rice that was visible to me was GREEN and dry. At this point, all the sensors in my brain were blaring warning signs but I rationalized it with the fact that maybe this is normal because of the green seaweed maybe dying the white rice.

I take a bite.

Honestly it wasn’t that bad. FamilyMart onigiris are, from my experience, badly balanced with the toppings to rice ratio so I actually only tasted the rice and seaweed at this point. But the rancid green rice and seaweed just tasted kinda plain. The only repugnant thing there was that vile matcha smell. Like it smelled like matcha but not matcha at the same time. If I had to describe it, maybe expired matcha? You’re gonna have to get some rancid onigiri to know for sure what I’m talking about. But luckily my friend was there and immediately said that shit ain’t normal.

I’m in the process spitting all of this stuff out of my mouth as he proceeds to check the expiration date on the scraps of packaging I had to tear through to open it up. Expiration Date: 9/20/23. It’s so over at this point. I’m gagging and just dying at how traumatic and nasty that rancid onigiri was. Trying to search for similar results online while suffering netted zero results so I ended up suffering in silence. I would not recommend eating rancid onigiri. Signs of rancid onigiri: green rice, extra difficult to open plastic wrapping, and funky matcha tea smell.

Thank you for listening to my TedTalk on my experience lol