010625 Godzilla Meat Going on Sale – Really

Tokyo (Where Else?) - Japan's best-known monster, Godzilla, is coming to stores soon - canned.

“Godzilla Meat,” actually 3.5 ounces of corned beef from Tokyo toy maker Takara Co., is packaged with pictures of the stomping, fire-breathing, irradiated dinosaur made famous by Toho movies that started coming out in the 1950s.

“People can eat Godzilla and become energetic and powerful. It's got dreams mixed in with fun,” Takara spokeswoman Yoko Watanabe said Tuesday. “It's like Popeye and his can of spinach.”

The cans, slated to appear in Japanese stores in October, will sell for $4.75, Takara said.

There are no plans so far to export Godzilla Meat, according to Takara, the maker of the Transformers toys.

Also planned for sale in Japan this fall are Godzilla Eggs, a can of about 15 quail eggs, and Radon Meat, canned barbecued chicken named after the winged monster.

Takara also plans to sell King Ghidora Meat, but buyers will find the taste of the three-headed dragonlike creature suspiciously like Godzilla Meat - it's the same corned beef inside.

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