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December 14, 2004

Fun in the SUU PAA market

As a follow up for the last post on products this is sure to please those with a hankering for some engrish. Join me on an adventure through the grocery store:

With a crunchy flaky tub filled with cream or chocolate these are both disturbing and addictive. These are dang good, like little sections of intestine, only in cream and chocolate flavor, yum yum.

Creap coffee creamer (with Japanese pronunciation that’s Kreh-ah-p)

Fibe-mini. “YOUR HEALTHY DAY”
Nothing like Fiber drinks (I don’t think fiber was interpreted correctly in this one!) in the morning. “NEW DIETARY FIBER DRINK”.

A gel pack of beauty or diet. “BODY PLEASURE”
“This jelly drink is recommended to those people who want to keep BEAUTY and freshness.”

Pocari Sweat. So you can replenish exactly what you lose, eww.

BALANCED FOOD
Calorie Mate
BLOCK
I think they mean it’s a cubical block of some substance not a balance food calorie blocker, but I honestly haven’t ventured into purchasing this one.

Hrmm, I can’t seem to find the ramen… Oh wait, there is an ENTIRE AISLE of it! Cup soup is big, any flavor you could possibly want, size, shape, even character themed…and everything…EVERY SINGLE ONE…each takes three minutes to cook?!

Familiar? FU RO SU TEi… Fuwroe-suete… Frosted…

Hello Kitty and Pooh Bear Dinners. In fact, that’s Pooh Bear KA REE…curry!

These are bags of rice topping pouches. As Ben mentioned: Kirby flavored rice anyone, or Hamtoro or Pooh and Piglet? (Actually more likely to be vegetable, salt or fish flavoring). Fantastic!

Need I explain more? (Other than to say this is not the refrigerated section of the store.!)

Ready to go fish snacks. Dried and to be eaten whole. You find them in food all over the place, they come in a variety of sizes too! Tiny…I didn’t’ realize I was eating little fish in my rice size, to OH DEAR it still has eyes big size.

Speaking of big, that’s one hell of a Daikon root.

Individually wrapped apples. 350 to 398 yen each. Wha?! Almost $4 for ONE apple, maybe that’s some really special wrapping?

Oh sweet I’m going to get a watermelon, oh…wait…that price tag says 1980… each.

Well how about a cantaloupe…uuuh…small heart attack…2980, each.
The resent typhoons have really brought up the price of already stupidly expensive produce…crazy!

And then we walk into the beauty products section. A few of the women’s products contain things to whiten or lighten the skin! This one is obviously one of those products:

There are more men’s products here that I had seen back home…This is the best section of the whole store:



“Eroica”, maybe erotic and heroic?

NUDY…yes that’s right, just cut to the chase of it all!

But nothing can top MANDOM:



Freaking huge bottles with three tag lines (I guess they couldn’t decide on just one) “Everybody loves a lover” “Everybody loves Mandom” and last but certainly not least…“Man o man- that’s Mandom”.

Posted by theinfonaut at December 14, 2004 05:18 PM

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