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We made it our singular mission in Tokyo to sample and rank every strange thing we came across in a vending machine. It was a lot of things!
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Also, they are not fun to buy. It's awkward to purchase them in front of other human people, and they're 1,000 yen (8 dollars) each, which would be a steal for a new pair of ladies' underpants, but is just too high of a price to pay for used ladies' underpants.
We were far too excited about this!
We couldn't read the ingredients but both of us are vegetarians and one of us is very, very allergic to fish, so we didn't do a huge amount of tasting of this product after our initial survey.
Some of the vending machines we found were deliberately mysterious. You just had to trust them and give them money and they would give you some kind of treat like an analog watch that would be invisible in a jungle.
This makes it real stringy and gloopy and intense to smell! All of our Japanese colleagues described it as an "acquired taste."
It was a nice mystery surprise and felt like a very generous thing for a machine to give us.
We figured this was in the service of the greater good of advancing international diplomacy and also helping fellow ~content creators~ who were just trying to make some killer content.
They weren't very nice, but it's very much the thought that counts with this sort of thing.
But once we got past that, it was good and hearty!
She is from a popular manga series called Cardcaptor Sakura, which is about some tweens who accidentally release magical cards created by a sorcerer and have to try and get them back. This is Tomoyo Daidouji, who is the wealthy best friend of the main character.
It's frankly embarrassing that we don't sell delicious beer in vending machines here in the U.S. You would think that our Founding Fathers would have figured that one out if they were as smart as everyone says they were.