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30 June 2006

Konbini Life --an examination/review of all the stuff this guy eats from convenience stores in Japan →[More:]
(i had some of the stuff he's had too, when i was there--they're open 24 hours and good when you're coming home and need something to put in your stomach)

post by: amberglow at: 19:03 | 2 comments

and an examination of this kind of stuff: Products come and go in Japanese convenience stores at a bewildering velocity. One day you pick up a delightful pint of old-fashioned French Style Milk Seeki, and a week later, this new product is gone forever - a total existence so brief that it almost completely fails to enter our collective memories or get tangled in the branches of the Internet. Some new goods are seasonal - cherry blossom-themed snacks, etc. Most are not very good and deserve to disappear quickly. Nonetheless, high-speed, short-term products are now a standard institution of the Japanese retail experience. ...

posted by amberglow 30 June | 19:08

oh! check this out too--Separated at Birth? ; >

posted by amberglow 30 June | 19:13

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