Hi-Chew – Aloe Yogurt
Aloe is an interesting case study in how the idea of something can be marketed into oblivion and overproduced to the point that people completely forget what the original product or concept was. What I…
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Tirol Chocolate – Soda Ramune Dagashi
Every once in a while I see something and everything in my brain and body tell me, “don’t do it!”, or “it’s a trap!”. When it comes to food and snacks I try to override…
Lotte – Lemon Liqueur Chocolate
If something works, it only makes sense to keep releasing it until people get tired of it. That and releasing slight variations of the working formula until people get tired of the original and the…
Tirol Chocolate – Hokkaido Milk Mochi
I have reached a point in my Tirol tasting career that it’s getting harder and harder to find new flavours. I don’t feel like today’s flavour is a new one, but likely a slight rehash…
Tirol Chocolate – Young Donuts Dagashi
It’s often that we have chocolate in or on pastries and baked goods, but how often do we have bake goods and pastries inside the chocolate? As it turns out, it happens a lot with…
Hi-Chew – Umai-Chew Muscat Grape
I’m working my way through another Umai-Chew flavour, something that has become quite commonplace currently. A theme that is somewhat similar to a lot of Umai-Chew varieties of more common flavours – the texture is…
Bourbon – Mochi Truffe Strawberry Cocoa
As I get older I become more ingrained in certain habits and get accustomed to certain things. Try as I might, I can see myself becoming more and more resistant to trying new things and…
Tirol Chocolate – Yatta Men Ramen Dagashi
Before it was popularized as a snack, I used to take instant noodles and eat them “raw”. When I say raw, I really mean uncooked. They aren’t technically raw because the way they are created…
Tirol Chocolate – Sakuranbo Cherry Dagashi
As is customary with Tirol, they do some seasonal crossover/collaboration flavours each year, and this is part of the most recent rotation. Dagashi is a general term for cheap or inexpensive snacks. These are snacks…
Tirol Chocolate – Green Tea
There are some flavours that I wonder if I’ve come to appreciate more as I get older, or if it just so happens to become more popular and mainstream and companies just learn how to…