If you thought the Pokémon Trading Card game was huge, well... you'd be right.
However, over in South Korea, another craze is gripping the nation: Pokémon bread. Yes, forget your Kingsmill and your Hovis and whatever other sliced loaves you eat outside the United Kingdom, because Pokémon-themed bread has reportedly returned to South Korean stores in February 2022 after a long hiatus.
Priced at 1,500 won (around $1.22) a piece, each piece of bread also contains a random Pokémon sticker to collect, which are also being sold separately for at least 10 times the price of the bread.
In fact, the craze is so prevalent, that within the first week of the bread being on sale, over 1.5 million of the carb-loaded snacks had been sold. People going loco over collectable Pokémon products? Whodathunkit?
Have you been lucky enough to try the Pokémon bread? Is it even nice? Let us know!
[source kotaku.com, via gonintendo.com]
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The people in the video are very enthusiastic for bread
@iLikeUrAttitude Would have thought they'd be sour. D'oh!
(I'll get my coat...)
I thought it was talking about a game when I saw the headline at first with Butter being the other version 😆
A mainline game I mean lol
No Raichu? It's Pokemon bread, the pun writes itself!
I live in Japan. Pokemon bread is a big thing here as well. It even comes with a sticker. Right now Yadon (Slowpoke) bread is really hard to get. My wife is a big Psyduck fan and buys bread every week trying to get a Psyduck sticker. It's been a year and still no dice. BTW the bread tastes like stale dinner rolls. Even the chocolate.
@Fizza I was gonna say "because the pun doesn't work in its native language", same as I have been on the comments about male alligators being oxen, but... Rye is raimugi. So the pun still works. Go figure.
Rye is this a thing?
@Bret I didn't even know that to be honest. I guess I think so far ahead I don't even know how multilayered my comments can be, huh?
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@Trickbaby14 SoUtH, SOUTH Korea
Me and my pokemon can make beautiful bread togethor!
This is barley even a product.
First you take a grass type pokemon and grind it up into a thin flour. Then you bake it in an oven made from a fire-type's stomach lining, adding a dash of powdered flying-type to help the bread rise. Finally, let cool and serve.
I'm sure it's completely licensed too. Oh Asia, whatever are we to do with you?
Just bread?
As in, bread bread?
No filling? Just plain nutritionally-bereft stomach fodder?
I’d like to try this bread but I’m always disappointed when a modern day Pokemon product only features gen1 monsters.
@iLikeUrAttitude you got the 2 people on the left who are trying to make the clickbaity thumbnail but the guy on the write is like nope, and is starting to eat the bread, plastic and all.
Pokemon sells , more so than s**
The bread doesn't hold a candle to the mr donuts pokemon themed pastries..
@RubyCarbuncle Pokemon Bread & Butter - that would be so great 😄
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