Choco Baby

So…the gravel pit, the one I used to play in when I wasn’t harassing jellyfish, is no longer. It’s now something safer but much more boring, a gravel parking lot. The change is okay, though, because the gravel pit will live on in my memories, just as fun Japanese candies exist in my present.

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Choco Baby! Um, baby.

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This candy’s colors and cute font caught my eye, prompting me to pick it up at the Japanese supermarket.

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Chicken Kamameshi

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Sooo…I kinda, sorta, am well-acquainted with Lean Cuisine, Stouffer’s, and Marie Callender’s frozen foods. Ajinomoto ones, however, not so much.

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Saku Saku Panda (”Kabaya”)

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When I selected this item to photograph, I thought that I’d just be snapping some pictures of the box and the panda biscuits inside of it.

Right?

Um, no…

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Couque D’asses

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Friends, let’s all take a moment to think about our reaction upon seeing this item.

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Mine? Gasping in delight and giggling with amusement.

Someone, slap some maturity into me.

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Reader Kelli introduced these Japanese cookies to me and I have to wonder why. I mean, did she deduce from reading some of my posts that I have a juvenile an offbeat sense of humor?

Anyway, I had never experienced as much anticipation about opening a box to uncover the mysterious items inside than I did with Couque D’asses.

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Fourre Double Choc Biscuits

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I pick which items to post based partly on whim. Today’s featured item, my last one of 2009, was selected solely on mood. I wanted to post something that was no fuss and no muss, and immediately thought of these Fourre Double Choc Biscuits.

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