Peacock "lucky bags". They're stapled shut, but the notion of there being a surprise was rather undermined by the neighboring display.
Fortunately for us, one of our previous suppliers of fukubukuro, Peacock supermarket, obliged us by revealing the contents of their lucky bags before purchase. This year was rather a contrast to last year in which there were some actual food items in the bag like coffee, tea, soy sauce, seaweed and egg drop soup because it mainly contains snacks. I wasn't able to dig through the entire bag, but it was heavy on the salted snacks and sweets including cookies, (European imported!) sugar wafers, castella cake, at least two kinds of sembei, salted shrimp snacks, (imported) potato sticks, and karinto (crispy, lightly sweet, fried brown sugar snacks that are very popular in Japan). The cost of the bag, 2000 yen/$26, is not incredibly high, but I'm not sure that the contents represent a great deal of value for the money, particularly if every single items is not of interest. Still, I think it is a nice assortment, but we passed on it.
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New Year sales in Japan are all about fukubukuro. I hear Apple had a good one this year :)
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I got a bag from Mister Donut. It was on sale, 1600 down from 2000. Also, it appears we got 20 donut coupons instead of the advertised 16. Not bad. :)
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