This is a new anime about snacks.
Why aren't you watching Dagashi Kashi yet? It's very educational and provides a history lessons regarding Japan's most popular and iconic snacks.
inb4 /a/, nothing they discuss about this show has anything to do with food.
>inb4 /a/, nothing they discuss about this show has anything to do with food.
Well, Hotaru is rather... distracting. I want to try some Umaibo if I ever get the chance though (no homo).
>>7372411
I thought the umaibo episode was interesting, but I found it annoying that I had no idea what it tasted like or what the texture is like.
Is there any comparison in the west? It seems like it would be like a very very light, sugar-coated donut shaped like a long stick.
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>>7372435
I actually bought umaibo because of that episode, I was so intrigued. I got the yakitori flavor, which is kinda sweet. The texture is like a Funyun (I'm just now realizing they're essentially the same thing). They're pretty fun.
I wish my local Japanese supermarket sold dagashi. Online prices are a bit much for what you're paying for.
>>7372503
Oh I see, so they're a puffed flour snack. Very cool! I'm trying to imagine a yakitori funyun and it's pretty good.
The largest asian market near me doesn't carry umaibo, but no complaints from me because they often stock seasonal flavors of puccho.
>>7372514
Is it only certain snacks that are considered "dagashi" in Japan? I thought the term applied to all small snack foods and candies, but it's a new word for me
>>7372514
>my local Japanese supermarket
I'm jelly. I wish I had a local Japanese supermarket for all my [spoiler]cooking with dog inspired dishes[/spoiler]
>>7372540
Without looking it up online, I'd say it refers to inexpensive, often small snack foods that sometimes have a fun gimmick, like doubling as a whistle or a fake cigarette. The closest Western equivalent would be five-cent candy, but five-cent candy isn't really meant to be played with.
>>7372559
Having lots of East Asians live in your city comes with it's bonuses.
>>7372635
>he doesn't know how to redirect
>>7372635
Huh? Where? I don't see it
>>7372635
>thread about Japanese snacks
>not /ck/
Welcome to /ck/
Have they done an episode on jelly doughnuts?
>>7372635
>fucking weab
He saids on an anime imageboard ran by a japanese guy
Thanks, OP. Will try it out.
Is anyone reading Dungeon Meshi? It is /ck/ and /tg/ combined.
>>7372656
I suppose listening to Beethoven makes me a Nazi sympathiser too.
>>7372706
Wouldn't that be Wagner?
>>7372775
Yes, but unfortunately, being wrong has never stopped idiots.
I feel like I'm leaking IQ by participating in this conversation. Being anime, or Japanese by origin, doesn't make anything worthless by definition. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together could tell you this. But here we are, arguing about it as if a stray idiot frothing about "weebs" made a difference to this state of truth.
>>7372775
Well, in this case, the emphasis is more on the composer being German and unrelated to Nazism, whereas Wagner was famously liked by Hitler so it doesn't emphasise the point as well.
>tfw can't buy dagashi because the asian supermarket gets a lot fewer shipments of stuff during the winter months
Winter on the East Coast sucks but Dagashi Kashi is actually a bit of a consolation prize
>>7372682
yes
>>7372682
I thought it was pretty fun, but there's so little of it available.
I tried watching it since I thought the premise was good, but it didn't seem that funny or interesting really. I only saw the first episode though, so maybe I'll try again eventually
I want to empty my balls into a boston creme donut and feed it to Hotaru
>>7373158
Watch it for the girls, dingus.
>>7373158
Definitely watch the second episode right away. That's when the true snack-wackiness starts and it doesn't stop from there. Ep. 1 just gives some kind of premise for Snack Girl to be there to school everyone on the ways of snack food-fu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc00YLEYWmA
>>7373182
Wait, the first part of that dub seemed legitimate. Is this getting dubbed for real?
I know not everyone has access to true japanese snacks, so what dagashi (from any country) have you been enjoying lately?
For me it's these. I think m&m should count as cheap snacks marketed towards children.
>>7372559
Based Chef Francis
>>7372386
Animemes aside, Japanese snack foods are pretty damn bland.
>>7373293
>not wanting some yummy wasp ricecrackers
>>7373293
>Puccho
>Dessert Pocky
>Any hard candy
>sandwich flavored potato chips
>bland
OK
>>7373336
Pocky is bland.
>>7373344
Dessert Pocky isn't. Neither is Pretz for that matter.
Japan has tasty and not-tasty snacks same as every country. Take those pretzel-stick-cheese-dip snack packs for example. They're pretty fucking bland. Dots are really mild too. Doesn't mean all US snacks are bland.
Most of the really crazy snack food isn't imported to the US because there's a fear there would be no market for it. The blandest stuff is probably all you've been exposed to.
I wouldn't mind trying these.
>>7374294
>tfw anime is just a big scam for getting dumb americans to buy thekr fucking food products
Seriously, how many people 'like' eating the foods, opposed to those who earpt it because it was in their cutesydumb anime.
Ya'll are fallin victim to da big man with da plan ya'll
>>7374316
Life is just a big commercial
>>7374329
Honestly though. I wish I had a succesful anime to direct, I'd slap so many fucking products in there and make bank.
How often do people look up and buy whatever the fuck a main character was eating? Cringelords at Highschool were obsessed with ramen and Poki and Ramune and shit, advertising in Animes has immediate results.
>>7374340
You'll enjoy this video, dude. It's EPIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKysZp02_TI
>all the asian import shit in my town is vietnamese
>absolutely no japanese shit whatsoever
Send help.
>>7374843
>tfw vast majority of the "foreign" stuff in my town somewhere in california is mexican
>tfw am latino and majority of the food I've eaten in my life is mexican
>pretty much the only chinese and hawaiian places in town suck balls
>always loved burgers/other american food because to me they're different and family only cooks mexican
>tfw feel like a weeb for liking or if I introduced any asian stuff to my family
>family joked because I liked dragonball as a kid and mom joked I can't name my son gohan
>who the fuck names their kid the japanese word for rice?
Send help please, no asian shit or other foreign shit anywhere near. I love mexican food and all, but even when I go to visit my grandpa in mexico in the somewhat rural town he lives in puebla even has a goddam malaysian place.
>>7374843
C-connecticut?
>>7372682
man i would love to see someone recreate some of the dishes in that, they always look delicous
You literally have to be a huge fucking weeb to wanna learn about Japanese snacks and food. Why would i wanna spend twice on KitKat's when American KitKat's exist? You get less in quantity as well. It's like those /cgl/ faggots that go to cons and eat fucking Pocky all the fucking time.
>>7377083
I was more befuddled than anything when I saw this set being posted by the anon that took them on /a/
>>7373316
How's it taste?
I wish I could find Mitsuya cider somewhere out here in SoCal, or even a reliable source of UCCs besides the Mitsuwa stores in Pasadena. I'm honestly saddened by how much the goods cost if you mail order.
>>7376981
Learning about another culture isn't the same as buying it. You can read about it, watch videos about it, whatever you want, but you don't have to buy it.
>>Why would i wanna spend twice on KitKat's when American KitKat's exist?
Frankly I don't know why you would want to buy either. But I imagine that some people would be willing to pay more for the Japanese ones because they come in various flavors that don't exist in the US versions.
>>7376981
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>>7372386
>Why aren't you watching Dagashi Kashi yet?
Shill your child porn elsewhere, weeb.
>>7378776
>>7376981
>KitKats
American KitKats have the least amount of variety and if you enjoy KitKats, it's enjoyable to try multiple types. That said, cheesecake KitKats are probably the only worthwhile Japanese ones to try. The British ones are much more enjoyable, e.g. mint, orange, cookies and cream, peanut butter, dark chocolate, etc.
>>7378972
Those flavors would be pretty cool to have. I've only seen the regular and white chocolate ones.
>>7378776
Nice meme senpai.
>>7377266
Post the rest, dudester.
>>7374294
I don't get why the cider one is blue. is blue cider like blue raspberry?
>>7376981
america has the most boring snacks even though we're supposed to be so fat. they have "american" flavor pringles in japan that aren't actually sold in america. I blame the midwest.
>>7377083
>>7377266
Link to thread?
It reminds me of an anon who went to Kyoto and visited the shopping market that Tamako Market was based off, and apparently it still had Tamako Market based stuff.
It's interesting how much anime is part of every day life like that.
>>7381384
>america has the most boring snacks even though we're supposed to be so fat.
I don't think taste or variation is why America is fat, and maybe Japan's candy is more varied precisely because it isn't fat.
Candy and fast food are a rare treat in Japan and treated accordingly. Americans are fat because they bulk eat it, so their candy and fast food work according to what I'll call the McDonalds formula: take low quality ingredients, pump them full of fat/sugar/salt/corn syrup to make them addictive and splash some tasty sauce on it for the illusion of a good flavor.
>>7381943
yeah, the school from k-on too even though it's more like a tourist atraction, not sure if it's still a school
>>7381261
I didn't save them.
>>7381384
Blue is the color Japan uses for its 'soda' flavored stuff (cider is sometimes just used as a synonym for soda it seems but idk). It basically just tastes like vaguely lemony cotton candy flavoring.
>>7381984
>>7381384
American candy is just a vessel of disposing of unreasonable quantities of high-fructose corn syrup that is grossly over-produced entirely on government subsidies, as cutting into the subsidies would drive away too many republican voters to be opposed. Hell, they're at a point where american candy is regularily used as pig feed substitute because it's cheaper.
>>7382116
>Hell, they're at a point where american candy is regularily used as pig feed substitute because it's cheaper.
Citation needed. If this is true and you're not bullshitting me, that's sad bruh.
>>7382363
Dunno man, I think it sounds pretty sweet.
>>7372386
why is dave strider in an anime?
>>7379862
Yeah that's nice. Fuck off /a/.
>>7382363
Naw I remember that. They were feeding candy to pigs.
>>7384290
factory reject m&m's, wasn't it?
I want to feed Hotaru my weiner
>>7381261
>>7381943
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>>7378251
I got quite a buzz off it.
>>7384838
Nice choice of screenshots.
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>>7384845
Is Dagashi Kashi really that popular in Japan? The author must be getting mad royalties, right?
>>7384845
>FAMIRY MARKET
Kek
![[Mori] Dagashi Kashi - 03 [169050FC].mkv_snapshot_21.03_[2016.01.22_20.57.06].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/d4HDKyq.jpg "[Mori] Dagashi Kashi - 03 [169050FC].mkv_snapshot_21.03_[2016.01.22_20.57.06].jpg")
>>7385286
Either that or they're shilling hard. Still, don't care because it has pic related.
>>7384858
Carlos!
>>7376344
This. Some of them seem pretty simple, and I gotta try that holy water sorbet.
>>7385286
It's pretty popular this season, but a lot of times popular anime had huge ass stands or shrine type things in the area that they take place in. When K-On! was real popular the (abandoned) school it's based on had a bunch of fans come and set up shrine type things to their favorite characters.
>>7387715
Setting up shrines for chinese cartoons seems kinda odd.
>>7387715
>set up shrine type things to their favorite characters
Either Japanese shrines work differently than I thought or Japanese anime fans are creepy as fuck. Aren't shrines usually dedicated to the dead, great saints/heroes or certain abstract ideals?
