All Things In Their Season: Strawberries

Japanese folk are keen on saying that Japan has four seasons. Sorry, J-folk, but y’all a dead wrong on that one! Because once you include rainy season, there’s at least 5! And that opens the door to all the countless other seasons which come and go, fleetingly, but demanding to be recognized and appreciated in its own right. Unwittingly, Japanese people have quietly acknowledged this in a kind of “all things in their season” reflected ever so subtly everywhere.

Being in the City Under Red Sun, I’m a little cut off from the seasonal tells of the natural world. But that’s nothing a trip to my special konbini – you know, the one with my bank’s ATM – couldn’t rectify. Sure enough, the plethora of new products all flavoured in strawberry marked the arrival of what has to be my favorite season of them all, strawberry season.

Goodness knows I LOVE strawberries! And the Japanese flavor goods have really brought there A-game this season.

1. Sapporo’s Ichigo Soda With natural strawberry flavor, it tastes like you’re drinking strawberry juice…. you know, if there were such a thing.

2. Nestle’s Sparkling Strawberry KitKat I abso-effing-lutely adore all the different flavored KitKats available here. On the low, it’s another one of those little things that keeps me here. The past few years, I went out of my head for Strawberry KitKats, but this year they threw in a twist…. sparkling Strawberry. It’s subtle at first but there’s definitely a fizzy, bubbly feeling that brings to mind a nice strawberry flavored champagne, making for the perfect combination of chocolate, strawberries and fine, French fizzy.

3. Morinaga’s Luxurious Strawberry Crepe I can’t remember exactly when I got in to ice cream crepes. They are ridiculously good but you gotta them with the quickness because unlike M&M’s they will melt in your hands. This one is strawberry ice cream with strawberry jam inside and topped with strawberry hand candy sprinkles, all wrapped in a strawberry crepe. I’m gonna miss this when it’s gone!

If you see any other strawberry flavored goodies about, lemme know! I’m such a fiend for strawberries….

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  By chottom, December 19, 2009 @ 4:37 am

  Nice – a cheerful posting

  Believe it or not I saw a strawberry sandwich in one of the combinies (may be an year ago or so).
  I was so impressed that I clearly remember that I wanted to take a picture of it and post it to Internet. Unfortunately I do not remember what happened finally. May be I took the picture but for sure I didn’t posted it anywhere. If I found it somewhere among my thousand old photos I promise to send it to you. As a matter of fact I never saw these strawberry sandwiches again.

  Cheers

  chottom

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  By young city extraordinaire, December 20, 2009 @ 10:53 am

  Thanks for the comment! I also remember seeing those strawberry and cream sandwiches around. It’s the one one strawberry item that I just couldn’t get in to though. I’onno…. I might have to get them another shot though. To the conbini!!!

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  By chottom, January 2, 2010 @ 8:17 am

  I’ve got the strawberry sandwich, also strawberry sparkling wine. I took pictures and I’ll taste it right now. Do you still want the photos?

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