AYOK: April 28th-May 7th (0)

Due to the Golden Week holidays making a mess of the first week of May, I decided to group these past 2 weeks together.

One of my friends gave me a lunch menu from the neighboring prefecture and 1 thing I noticed immediately is how many times they eat omelettes. We have omelettes about once a month, either the Japanese type or the Western type, but for the most part, my town’s diet uses far less egg. I might translate the other menu in the future as a comparison to our diet. Same prefecture, vastly different diet.

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Special A - Episode 5 (8)

Rather than do a long write up of impressions, I’ll cut through most of it using the facial expressions of SA characters:

What’s this? A new SA episode? Nothing like visual seppuku to end a long work day.

Hey, I laughed! But it’s still a little painful to watch.

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Pocky Brazilian Pudding (5)

Overview

I first had to look up Brazilian Pudding. The image on the box looks a lot like giant flan made in a Bundt cake pan. My guess was that the flavor would be similar to purin, the Japanese version of US flan. Sure enough, what Glico calls Brazilian Pudding is actually Pudim de Leite, a milk-based sweet custard with a sweet sauce on top. I suppose they changed the name for the ease of katakana.

The Product Examined

The Pocky smells like white chocolate but tastes more like Pocky Milk. With the exception of the burnt caramel, this tastes more like what I had originally thought Pocky Milk would taste like - very sweet. But the burnt caramel makes all the difference.

Another thing to note is that flan is a soft, wobbly dessert and Pocky is hard and crunchy. I generally don’t comment about the texture of this snack but for this specific flavor, it’s a little off-putting. I’m a huge fan of creme brulee, flan, purin and one of the things I like is the creaminess. However, it’s a very minor complaint and I would definitely buy this Pocky again.

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