Japanese Snack Reviews

Kirin is doing some sort of promotion in which they talk about the combination of fruit and salt. I am very aware that salt can do a lot...

Images from Suntory. During my long and far less than illustrious life, I've heard a lot of theories as to why people catch colds....

I've mentioned on my other blog that there was a time in Japan when I was laid up with terrible back pain. The remedy according to ...

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

This picture is courtesy of Coca-Cola and it's not a product announcement because the contents are nothing new. This is a limited e...

I've heard for years that the Chinese eat all sorts of weird things, and I've known for some of those years that things like 1,00...

Photo courtesy of BlogD . (used with permission) Have you ever asked yourself what the next frontier in coffee should be? It already ha...

There is a tendency among those who are not native to a culture to take assertions from media as if the natives are taking them at face...

One of the things that Japan used to be famous for was copious numbers of free samples. There was a time, in days gone by, that foreign...

The fine folks at Pepsi continue to attempt to distinguish their brand image from Coca-cola's by offering up another uncommon flavo...

Though I'm sure people who don't live in Japan think that there are bizarre food options lurking at the front of every shelf when ...

I know my readers sit around believing I live the glamorous and fast-paced life of a small-time snack food reviewer. While you may believ...

I mentioned in a previous random picture post that marketers are gearing up to make it easier than ever to endure the heat in Japan due t...

I'd read that this was going to be released on July 26 and dutifully went out to the local Family Mart to procure one. It is part of t...

Since I already posted a picture of the bottles here , I'll give you a picture of the ad for Pepsi Dry that is running on the subway at ...

Pepsi has introduced yet another in its small line of  infinitesimally different Pepsi drinks. This is in contrast to its line of extremel...

I'm doing two pictures of beverages in a row as random pictures but this one rather stands apart from last week's picture. This cu...

You have to admire Kirin's testicular fortitude and not because they named this drink "Nuda". Using anything that implies nudi...

It seems that "night" and "adult" are themes for marketing products for late in 2010. I think this is because early in t...

There are always a lot of appealing looking coffee beverages on offer in Japanese convenience stores. Unfortunately, they're all also u...