Bell Foods Jingisukan Tare (ベル食品 成吉思汗たれ)

The story behind it

Grilled meat at home in Hokkaido means jingisukan. And jingisukan sauce means this yellow label.

Bell Foods grew out of a company started in 1947 by graduates of the Hokkaido University Faculty of Agriculture. Jingisukan Tare went on sale in 1956. At a time when jingisukan was not yet common even within Hokkaido, the company worked with butcher shops and even lent out jingisukan pans, and it played a leading part in spreading mutton culture across the region.

Built on shoyu (soy sauce), it blends in apple, onion, and other vegetables along with spices. Sweet with real punch, it holds its own against the character of mutton. For most people from Hokkaido, the memory of grilled meat comes with this flavor attached.