These Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there’s a 43-year waitlist

These Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there’s a 43-year waitlist

(CNN) — If you order a box of frozen Kobe beef croquettes from Asahiya, a family-run butcher shop in Takasago City in western Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, it’ll take another 43

Japanese beef croquettes have a 43-year waiting list

The shop sends a regular newsletter to waiting customers updating them on the latest shipping estimate. A week before the delivery date, the shop will confirm the delivery with the patient customers once again.

These Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there’s a 43-year waitlist

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — If you order a box of frozen Kobe beef croquettes from Asahiya, a family-run butcher shop in Takasago City in western Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, it’ll take another 43 years before you receive your order. That isn’t a typo. Forty. Three. Years. Founded in 1926, Asahiya sold meat products from Hyogo prefecture – Kobe beef included – for decades before adding beef croquettes to the shelf in the years following WWII.…