Need a mid-snack? How about 'twerk pudding'?

Think back to that fateful day when Miley Cyrus and her tongue performed at the VMA and introduced a large part of the world to twerking (which, incidentally, was in the Oxford English Dictionary before Cyrus did it). While Cyrus’s tongue flicks probably left any frogs and snakes that were watching the VMA with a serious complex, among humans, the reaction was largely one of shock and disapproval. [caption id=“attachment_1134777” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A screengrab from the Youtube video. Image courtesy Youtube.[/caption] In Japan, it seems Cyrus’s twerking inspired a very different response: an appetite for unusually-shaped milk pudding. Christened “butt pudding” or “twerk pudding”, this snack is a modification of a mould of the anime character Shin Chan’s bottom. For the purposes of twerk pudding, which made its first appearance about a month ago on YouTube, that little jiggly number is accessorised with a red thong (made of nerikiri, a red bean concoction), placed in martini glass and surrounded by blue Hawaiian jelly. Lo and behold, it’s bottoms up to Cyrus. Foodbeast has a video showing you how to make twerk pudding, in case you’re interested. Tumblr user Kinokorin made a GIF version of the recipe. It contains the hashtag “It’s 2am again”, which is one of the most striking examples of how intensely insomnia can affect one’s sanity. However, sleepless or otherwise, twerk pudding is truly mesmerising. Watch the video below: