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Adding something usually meant for coffee to Starbucks Japan\u2019s Sausage Pie<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n As Starbucks<\/strong> fans know, many times the coffeehouse\u2019s menu is simply a starting point, and your drink isn\u2019t really complete until you\u2019ve customized it just to your liking. Recently, though, we\u2019ve been hearing about a Starbucks Japan food<\/em> customization hack that\u2019s gone viral, and so we decided to try it for ourselves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This is a customization for Starbucks Japan\u2019s Sausage Pie<\/strong>, which is the chain\u2019s take on Japanese-style sausage bread, but with a crisp pie crust casing instead of a soft bun. On its own, the 380-yen (US$2.50) Sausage Pie is already a great choice if you\u2019re in the mood for a meaty bite to eat, but rumor has it that it becomes even more delicious if you customize it by adding caramel sauce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Yes, caramel sauce. The same stuff Starbucks keeps on hand in case you want to add a squirt to your latte or Frappuccino.<\/p>\n There\u2019s always a little bit of nervousness that comes when making a \u201csecret menu\u201d kind of order, and we felt an extra dose of apprehension on account of how conceptually unusual this one is. But Starbucks Japan prides itself on excellent customer service, and when we followed our Sausage Pie order up with a request for caramel sauce, the staff didn\u2019t miss a beat, and politely asked \u201cWould you like it all across the pie?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n We said yes, and this is what we got in return.<\/p>\n With the pie crust itself being a golden brown, the color of the caramel sauce doesn\u2019t stick out very much, so the visuals aren\u2019t anything unusual. Would the flavor be so easy to accept, though?<\/p>\n Yes it would.<\/p>\n The flavor profile starts off with an instant hit of sweetness<\/strong>, and the caramel makes its fragrance felt too as you go in for a bite. The pie is flaky in texture but not dry, with a nice, buttery moistness that blends magnificently with the caramel<\/strong>. Our major worry had been that the sweet caramel notes would drown out the meatiness of the sausage, but nope, everything came together in a rich, delicious dance of distinct flavors across our taste buds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Maybe the biggest surprise is that the caramel even plays nicely with the whole-grain mustard<\/strong> that\u2019s inside the Sausage Pie. While you might not expect mustard to pair well with a dessert flavor, there actually is a precedent of sorts in honey mustard sauce, and it turns out that honey caramel is also a very pleasant, more decadent combination.<\/p>\n So yes, the Starbucks Japan fan community got this one absolutely right, and adding caramel to the chain\u2019s Sausage Pie is definitely worth trying, especially since caramel sauce is a free, no-charge customization! And if you\u2019re more of a whipped cream fan, we\u2019ve got a Starbucks secret about adding that to an ordinarily savory dish too<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photos \u00a9SoraNews24<\/em> Adding something usually meant for coffee to Starbucks Japan\u2019s Sausage Pie. As Starbucks fans know, many times the coffeehouse\u2019s menu is simply a starting point, and your drink isn\u2019t really…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/03\/2_ff4ed3.jpg?w=640\")
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