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LTTP: Fruitopia
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distantmantra
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Coke needs to bring Qoo over here. Right now!
The names of that shit was the funniest, tho. Strawberry Passion Awareness and the like. Back in the day, my friend and I made a top 10 list of rejected fruitopia flavors with names like "Chocolate Styrofoam Connection" and "Limply Lettuce". Yeah, we pretty much just sat around and watched Letterman in highschool.
distantmantra
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Ichirou_Oogami said:
I also want the good Orange Fanta that Japan and Europe have. American Orange Fanta is sickly-sweet.
distantmantra
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Ichirou_Oogami said:
It's slightly tarter and less sweet. Run to the nearest vending machine and buy some now and drink one for me!
The large mega Asian grocery store in Seattle sells a few of the Japanese melon sodas. The Fanta Melon Creme soda was good, but it reminded me of ramune.
Also, while we were in Japan, we only found four kinds of Kit Kats: regular, swirl, green tea, and desert tea. I now love Lemon Fran, too bad we can only get chocolate almond over here.
distantmantra said:
I think I like the Sapporo-brand (?) melon soda the best.
Weird that you only found the four kinds - there's several more out there that I can think of - coffee, dark chocolate, grape, wine, strawberry, and patisserie (plus the seasonal ones that aren't being done right now - sakura, white chocolate and maple syrup, yogurt, to name a few). The swirl variety, that's being done to promote the Universal theme park in Osaka, is a total ripoff. Tastes just like a regular kitkat.
I was home until yesterday and I brought my Japanese students some American treats - Butterfingers, Three Musketeers, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I had bought a box of Twix too but I couldn't fit it into my luggage.
I bought my co-workers some Hershey's Kisses, too. Heh.
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Ichirou_Oogami said:
We actually liked the swirl Kit Kat, tasted different to my wife and I.
We scoured every single Lawsons, Sunkus, 7-11, grocery store, etc. and never saw anything but those four kinds. We did get hooked on Nobel's cocori gummis which are covered in sour sugar... can't find them anywhere back home. We've got one bag of them left...
Also, I was shocked at Snickers bars costing 125 yen.
distantmantra
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Ichirou_Oogami said:
Might be. We saw more variety in Tokyo than in Kyoto, Osaka and Hiroshima.
distantmantra
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Ichirou_Oogami said:
It was an extremely sobering and semi-depressing experience, however, it's worth seeing. The day we went to Hiroshima, it was overcast and rainy, which probably contributed to our mood. I'm guessing that a nice day, leaving the museum and coming into the peace park and seeing the cases of paper cranes is an uplifting experience instilling you with a sense of hope. Also, if you have the time when you visit Hiroshima, take the ferry over to Miyajima island. Miyajima was probably the highlight of our honeymoon.
ichigo kurosaki
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In Spain Cocacola usually markets some of the rarer Fanta flavours -grape, watermelon... they are are available in other parts of the world i believe- during the summer season. You can see the cans here: http://www.lacia.com/esp/portfolio/fanta-brasil.html.
distantmantra
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ichigo kurosaki said:
Japan had orange, grape, golden apple, clear apple, and melon cream soda Fanta varieties. Here in the US, we have orange, grape, and strawberry. It's not real Fanta though, I'm of the belief that it's really the old Minute Maid fruit pop, rebranded under the Fanta line.
ichigo kurosaki
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No Fanta lemon? That can't be... Here there are just the two typical favours: lemon and orange (and diet versions, I believe). Pepsi markets their 'version' of Fanta under the "Kas" brand (it might only be available in a few European markets, not sure about this), which comes in orange, lemon and apple.
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