>>From: "Pecos B" <pecos_b@hotmail.com> >> >>What exactly is "Ichimi Togarashi"? > > >From my understanding, togarashi or tougarashi is a general Japanese >term for red pepper as a spice. Thus my joke about tougarashi-do a >few weeks ago. I've bought ichimi togarashi and nanami togarashi, >and I forget the distinction (they were slightly different seasoning >mixes based on pepper). > >The brands I've bought from Japanese groceries are packaged in >slender glass jars, similar in shape to a stack of two 35mm film >cannisters. The shaker top has a single hole in the center. These >are good to save for future use; as others here have said, they >carry well. > >HEH HEH once I brought one of these seasonings into the office for >my workplace powdered heat stash. I knew that toasted hemp seed was >one of the ingredients, but I was surprised to see intact hemp seeds >rolling around on my cubicle desktop. Oops. > >- A so, man, how'd it smoke? -- Peace... Rael64 "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -Mark Twain-