Price of fuel oil used to make NATTO surges!
Oil surge poses hazard for economy
TOKYO—….Masami Takano, president of Mito-based natto maker Daruma Shokuhin, says the rise in oil prices has wiped out more than half of his company’s profits. The price of heavy oil used to boil soybeans has risen about 50 percent over the past year, as has the price of plastic natto packages. …more….
Stinky natto dumped on top of white rice is the breakfast bioterror of most gaijin/foreigners in Japan.
It’s an “acquired” taste.
Many Japanese won’t eat it… it’s consumed mostly in the eastern Kanto region. Natto has a strong smell, like cheese and when it is stired for eating it generates a mass spiderweb-like strings. I’ll eat it if served to me but I normally won’t buy it.
Read more in Wikipedia about it.
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