One day, I found a vending machine selling sauces near Osaki Station in Tokyo. Sauces are sold mixed with beverages. The letters "Gorilla Source" on the package. And an illustration of a gorilla is drawn.

The name of "gorilla", which has a strong impact and impact of selling sauces from vending machines. When I looked up whether it was a Nanimono, I arrived at a company called Gorilla Sauce (it's still there!). Is it a source maker from the company name? This address exactly matched the location of the vending machine in question. This is undoubtedly black. When I contacted him immediately, he was able to meet me not in Osaki but in Jiyugaoka, a town where fashionable people gather.

◆ The most popular dish is "Nori Tsukudani" ... that? What is the source?

The meeting place was designated as "Goriraya", a store with a squishy name. The name of the store that shines brightly on the black signboard is gold. That gorilla that was drawn in the source is also enshrined. Is there an egg monument above the door? It's different from the surrounding stores, and it seems that it takes a little courage to enter by passing by.

Somehow
Somehow

The author, who thought he was a sauce maker, was surprised when he entered the store. In addition to the sauce, ketchup, dressing, tabasco, boiled paste, castella, sauce for omelet rice, and an egg that goes very well with this sauce (the product name is "Goritama". I feel that it is a difficult name to reach. I wonder if I'm the only one), and there is a wide variety of products with no sense of unity.

Products are lined up on the shelves
Products are lined up on the shelves

For example, sauces and ketchup are 600 yen, and 6 eggs are 500 yen, all of which are "a little good price". And in the pop, the details such as the place of origin and the manufacturing method are written in detail. At first glance, it looks like a select shop, but all of these products, which are named after "gorillas," are said to have been produced by the company.

The product name of Miso is "Gori Musume"
The product name of Miso is "Gori Musume"

By the way, it seems that the No. 1 repeat rate is "Gorilla", which is boiled seaweed. No, you look sick, but it's not a gorilla but a tsukudani of seaweed.

The strongest suspicion of rice
The strongest suspicion of rice

Gorilla is a trademark gorilla sauce, and its identity is not a source maker, but a group of people who have no desire for delicious food.