Japanese Snacks & Candies

FTV follows around some foreigners who love Japanese snacks:

The report focuses on how Japan has lots of limited edition flavors of popular snack foods, something that isn’t common in other countries. One example are Kit Kat bars, which are just sold as the standard chocolate flavor in America. In Japan, there are 39 different flavors of Kit Kat.

The limited edition flavors exist for several reasons. Some are sold on a seasonal basis, using flavors that Japanese people might associate with a specific season. Others are regional souvenirs, only sold in certain areas of Japan using the flavor of famous local foods. There are also special edition flavors and packages for entrance exam season, which are supposed to be lucky for students.

Towards the end of the video, they take a few Australian girls to fugashi, wheat glutten puffs that look a lot like poop. (They don’t include subtitles when a girl says, “it looks awful.”) The girls are taken to a fugashi factory, where they learn how it is produced.

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Hamachiman

That’s one of the cool things about Japanese versions of Kit Kat. I bought a green tea one that they sold at Narita Airport, that thing was to die for.

I do agree in the U.S. they tend to have very little variety in terms of the mainstay chocolates they sell in the stores. Take Kit Kat or Snickers in the U.S. Maybe they have three or four styles, dark chocolate, white chocolate, but nothing like the wild variety in Japan. I mean, I got excited when I saw a new version of Snickers at the local supermarket recently, caramel.

MF DULER

It seems to me that many Americans don’t really like it when someone messes with their old favorites. The clear soda fad was a good example; purple ketchup, too.

Rob A

Last I heard I think KitKat had something like 38 flavors in Japan? They do snacks right over there.

Pocky FTW. So addicting.
Rob A

So after I actually watched the clip I saw that there were now _39_ flavors, so I have to find out what the new one is.

Also, I completely forgot that the marble gum was Japanese. I have a whole pillowcase of that stuff. Love it.
Hamachiman

http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/crazy-japanese-kit-kat-flavors
TofuUnion

The idea of kids to be playing with Snacks & Candies is very Japanese. Look at the one with Neri Ame. It’s funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lsC8p3Y1s
Tres

Anyone else find pretty much every Japanese TV report involving foreigners to be really annoying? I watched about a minute of it (up to the bit with the Polish reporter) before I had to switch off.
Shogun

@Tres Don’t worry, you are not the only one to feel like that.

Scott

@Tres I get the same feeling. In this one it seemed to have a “see how great Japan is because of our great variety in snacks” feel to it. Foreigners are never given equal standing and are always exploited. Dramas are the worst offenders, just once, I would love to see a foreigner have at least a supporting role. Something elevated above stage dressing would be great.
I too, couldn’t finish watching this.

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