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INNATE SUMMER STOKE PHOTO COMP - WEEK 5 - FAVOURITE SKI TONIC
Hot Pocari Sweat.
I know that sounds disgusting. Who or what is a Pocari and why would you drink it's sweat?! Well let me inform you that Pocari Sweat is a Japanese sports drink that kinda tastes like gatorade...except not. You can buy it in bottle form but for those ski touring days I like to add the powered form to a thermos of hot water. Keeps the electrolytes and the spirits up!
No pictures I have personal taken no. A quick image search will give you plenty of pictures. Its a liquid if you buy it pre-made but also comes in a powder form much like North American sport drinks (gatorade, powerade, etc). However unlike the North American sports drinks it only has one flavour. One flavour that many companies have copied. So you get this wierd situation unlike in NA where you have two or three companies with numerous flavours you have 4 or 5 company with one flavour. Even the gatorade you buy over here just tastes like Pocari Sweat.
They have some other really wierd/awesome preformace drinks over here. My favorite being anything with Suzume-bachi jelly in it. A Suzume-bachi, or Sparrow Wasp, is massive hornet that is about the size of an average males palm. They are massie and really scary. Anyway, these hornets have the ability to fly a hundred kilometers in a day so "they" figured they would harvest these hornet's nests and put there jelly (food source) into a drink. This stuff come is a soft package that you squeeze into your mouth. Its kinda of a jelly which makes sense I guess. I have some of it at home I'll take picture of it tonight if I can remember.
Congrats SteelJ! You have won the comp and so an Americano and Trad Flask! Very unique suggestion - We are intrigued to try this potion!
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Thanks for the prizes guys! I'll be sure spike my Pocari Sweat next time I'm out.
Yes, In Hokkaido at the moment.
Not my pics but here you go.
The range of Pocari Sweat
The Sparrow Wasp
Wasp jelly drink called Vaam
Explaination of how its made, sorry its only in Japanese
