Japanese Snack Reviews

My husband and I have been back in the United States for almost exactly seven years come the end of this month. This has nothing to do w...

My stroll through the ZenPop box is one that I'm hoping will be far less leisurely so, with any luck, I'll be posting one revie...

I was watching a video on "shows that should never have been made" and one of the abominations that was featured was a show th...

My brain works super fast. In fact, it makes lightning leaps over stepping stones that often see me starting in one place and ending up...

Images are from Glico. Some names of products and places sound like they should be the names of something else. This is something whi...

One of the quaint things about riding the Shinkansen is that people sometimes come by pushing a cart with food. I haven't ridden tra...

One of the first things I learned about feeding babies, a task I was never destined to actually carry out, was that Cheerios were a ...

I would think that Glico ripped off Nestle's concept of issuing regional varieties of various foods if it weren't for the fact t...

Recently, I went a little crazy buying vegetables. Yes, I'm one of those freaks of nature who actually enjoys them and going overboa...

All images from Glico. My mother once took a part-time job as a Santa in a mall. She was chubby enough and was willing to seat childr...

When I was a kid, I didn't like Cracker Jacks. There was something off to me about the caramel coating. It always tasted a bit burn...

Recently, I was looking through a copy of "Elle" magazine. No, I'm not a fashion aficionado. It was free and I was on a so...

This product's name caught my eye because it is called "sugar rich". I can't imagine, in a day and age when sugar is c...

When I did a product information post on the summer Pocky releases, I didn't really expect to find myself sampling them. However, m...

Image courtesy of Glico. I sometimes wonder if some sort of "assembly" is supposed to make a food more attractive to people ...

Image courtesy of Glico. Glico knows how to survive a disaster. If there's an earthquake, typhoon, or nuclear disaster, all you ne...

Image courtesy of Glico. There's exclusive and then there's exclusive. Glico is producing a special version of their "Pre...

Culture is often seen as something which is largely reflected in ritual, art, and customs. For me, I think that culture is really in the...

Pretz are to pretzels as Japanese KitKats are to candy bars. They're the bold adventurers of the pretzel flavor world and come up wi...

All images courtesy of Glico. Glico has gone all out and has licensed Star Wars imagery for a large number of its products. Now, you c...