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For some reason the Boy and I went a bit crazy in the supermarket tonight, buying all sorts of junk we usually wouldn't buy. It was all very natsukashii for him (I love the word natsukashii - the closest meaning in English is "nostalgic" but it doesn't really come across the same) I was introduced to much interesting crap food. The whole point of Neriame is to have fun with it. Because basically eating it is like shoving sugar in your mouth. The more you swirl the sticks around in it the softer and tastier it gets! The good taste only comes with effort! When I was little Mas and I used to take our pocket money to the local shop and choose what lollies we wanted from the huge counter display. It was like one or two cents a lolly. My favs were the fake teeth and bananas - but sometimes we would spring for a packet of sugar cigarettes. Of course in the current PC climate you can't buy such things anymore - and I thought I was hitting the lodestone of natsukashii when I found "cocoa cigarettes" in a packet. However as you can see they are merely sticks not resembling anything (which was part of the fun when I was a kid). They taste pretty crappy but both the Boy and I liked the hardness of them. It's nice to crunch sometimes. So we are at the register when he shouts -"We have to buy those prawn senbe!!!" - I have never seen crackers the size of these things. They taste ok - but have a strange sticky surface. We have to eat thru 13 of them to finish the pack - but the Boy ate two after dinner with no problem. He says they are great when you are hungry. I agree - I just need to look at one before I'm turned off eating. I'm not really a snack person. Unless J-mum buys it then we don't often have them in our house. After dipping my toes into an array of Japanese snacks I settled on my favourite snack indulgence...Danish blue cheese and crackers.. The Boy thinks mouldy cheese is revolting - but then he also stocked up on natto tonight so I reckon that makes us even....

• ah..  natsukashiiiiiiiiii!!!

  The sticky neriame stuff reminds me of a really old j-pop song called “suteki-music” and the film clip used lots of images of people playing with neriame..

  
  Oh and Cliffy -I too, remember buying the Fags too as a kid.. my faves were teeth and cobbers.. they were a bit like fantales - hard caramel centre with chocky outside.  yummy..  but they were really expensive at 3 cents each and jelly beans were two for one cent..  (remember when 20cents worth of mixed lollies would last you and your mates all day?)

  Natsukashiiiiiii

  GG
  04/05/28 12:28 PM

• Yes!  We used to get 20cents worth of mixed lollies every friday! My faves were milk bottles and cobbers!

  Ah, the last fantale i had was in the freezing cold at the Falls Festival 2002, this guy came around selling them for charity, two for a dollar!!!  But we all bought one.  He looked at me funny when i spoke and asked me where i was from, and i told him, turned out he had lived in japan a few years too!  We chatted for a bit then he moved on to another group of people.  I sat back to enjoy my fantale and promptly lost a filling! Oops!

  j-ster
  04/05/29 12:31 AM

• Oh you can still get them? I couldn’‘t find them when I went back.

  20 cents was obviously the going rte for pocket money it seems - that’s what we would get too! And yes blow it all on mixed lollies. Although sometimes if we were being good and at my Nannas she would buy a twister bun and Sno-top.

  AH I miss those sugar highs….

  mj
  04/05/29 01:57 PM

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