Conbini Boys Conbini Boys 🐣🍗
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- Society & Culture
Mike and Matt dive into their passion - Japan’s convenience stores, known as conbini. From canned coffee to fried chicken to seasonal one-offs, we’ll be hitting you with the biggest news across the conbini landscape.
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Eventually It'll All Be Sticks and Bars
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 The stick and bar evolution of salad chicken
🐥 Tartar sauce inside of chikis
🐥 Imaginary fruits
🐥 Mottainai chuhais
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Shrinkflation? Skimpflation?
Back after a long break!
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Shrunken quantities and skimped qualities
🐥 Daily Yamazaki’s great UI renewal
🐥 The legend of Egashira 2:50
🐥 Ever increasing “sticks” of stuff
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Taking a Dip in the Oden Tank
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Oden and its mysteries
🐥 Tomato lemonade
🐥 Butter ramen
🐥 Cheese and cod fish sticks
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Beat the Heat with Daily Yamazaki
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Daily Yamazaki’s plan to cure natsubate
🐥 How never to eat a Famichiki
🐥 Pretzels
🐥 The return of Pierre Hermes
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Natsu Matsuri
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Summer Festivals (Natsu Matsuri) in Japan (and at Ministop)
🐥 An (abnormally?) large Famichiki
🐥 The ongoing evolution of the Pizza Chip flavor
🐥 An unreal banana bread offering from Daily Yamazaki
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Natto Apocalypse at FamilyMart
In this week’s episode we discuss:
🐥 Natto Day at FamilyMart
🐥 Fish nuggets at Lawson
🐥 Flavorless? Candy
🐥 Double cheesecake at Lawson
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