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….

Where You Been At, Boy???

(Yeah, I know that’s not proper English! But I’m from Oklahoma, dammit, and I’ll type the way I talk if I want to! LMAO)

So yeah, I haven’t had a chance to update my beloved blog in quite some time. It’s not that I don’t have alot of things I’d want to write about. So much has happened in the past few weeks, both good and bad, and I’d love to be able to recap at least a few of those things. I promise I’m keeping a list of topics that I want to write posts on. And I will post them all (maybe all at once) just as soon as I get the one thing I never have enough of….. time! Well, that’s one of the things I never have enough of – money and love are two others – but I’ll be getting around to those shortly! LOL

In the meantime though, please check out the last 2 installments of the outrageously fabulous Tranny Trash Burgers series…..

Anti-Herbivore Behaviour

While some men here in Land of the Rising Sun may have lost their lust for life, others have really come into their own…. like literally! A great example of anti-herbivorous behaviour, meet one Masanobu Sato, crowned last month in San Francisco’s 9th Annual Masturbate-A-Thon as the world champion masturbator after a record setting 9 hours 58 minutes of going at it! Wow, how does he find to the time? I mean 10 hours! Really, 10 hours?!?

Read the, errr, gripping interview with the champ himself.

I wrote a post and made a video about, you know, foreigners finding their super powers here in the City. It seems that natives too find their powers in the light of foreign suns…. Super powers indeed!