00:00:00 John Daub: Welcome to Tokyo! That in front of you is a Japanese fruit sandwich. And Japanese fruit sandwiches right now, especially in the winter, have this key ingredient: strawberry! It's in all of them. And we're going to be trying to see which one is the best. We have Family Mart, 7-Eleven, and this unnamed one is Lawson's. Which one do you think looks better? Which one would you pick up? They're all three pretty good, but in this episode we're going to find out which one is the champion!

00:00:29 John Daub: How you doing everybody? Welcome to a live stream, Only in Japan. Go subscribe if you have not already because you want to see this live. Joining me in this episode is somebody who knows a little bit about strawberries and Legos. This would be Kanae Daub. It's winter, she's cold. How you doing?

00:01:00 Kanae Daub: Me? I'm good.

00:01:01 John Daub: We live together. So because we have to stay at home as much as possible, I did pick these up at the convenience store. They do look pretty good, especially this one. They're all kind of uniquely different. And in Japan, each sandwich is kind of seasonal. So when you have a fruit sandwich in the convenience store, they're going to be different depending on winter, spring, summer, and fall. And it just so happens in the winter, it's strawberry season, right?

00:01:30 Kanae Daub: Yes.

00:01:31 John Daub: Yeah. And Japanese strawberries, especially dessert strawberries, are some of the best in the world and some of the sweetest. And over the live stream, I'm going to tell you a little bit about that. Yeah, I'm wearing a hat because I simply did not want to comb my hair. You can see Hachi. Oh yeah, there's Hachi in the back there. Now my favorite convenience store sandwich, and probably yours too, is the egg sandwich, which is tamago sando (egg sandwich).

00:02:20 John Daub: But these are pretty good too. And because it is almost midnight, this does constitute a midnight snack run, sort of. So let's give this a try. First up is... We're going to go with this Lawson's one. Now this one here was really interesting when I saw it in the store because obviously the first thing you see are the strawberries. I don't see the Lawson's logo, and I don't know if that's on purpose here. Oh yeah, right there. It's so small though. It's not exactly easy to see. So the branding is really different. But the strawberries are so clear, right? This one costs 322 yen, 348 with tax: strawberry and custard cream. Looks pretty good. We're going to dissect. I kind of smashed it on the way here. 180 calories. It's not too bad. This one is custard cream. Oooh. You say custard, you automatically win. Strawberries and custard. Let's open these up here. It smells like strawberries in this room because of the sandwich. Japanese sandwiches come in this cellophane, this kind of plastic wrap with numbers that tell you how to open it. Here you go, Kanae. Every sandwich comes with two. One you can share with a friend. Bet you want a piece right now. All right, pan down here. I want to show you what it looks like without the wrapper on here. This is from Lawson's. This is our first sandwich.

00:04:46 Kanae Daub: They probably... I think for the one more strawberry in the head.

00:04:49 John Daub: Okay, all right. Yeah, you know what? I'll give them that. There is one strawberry right there. So they kind of put it in here. Eric Le writes in scam. Eric H just writes in, hi, John. I guess it would be kind of a scam, but I don't know. It's interesting nonetheless. So let's give this a try here. Itadakimasu.

00:05:15 Kanae Daub: Itadakimasu.

00:05:26 John Daub: When I came to Japan, I didn't think that fruit sandwiches would work, but they kind of do. I don't know why.

00:05:32 Kanae Daub: It's good, isn't it? Fruit sandwich. Yeah, strawberry is very sweet.

00:05:37 John Daub: Japanese strawberries are harvested in the winter because they're almost exclusively greenhouse grown inside of vinyl greenhouses. The reason why they grow it in the winter? It's because the strawberries grow slower in the winter. And if a strawberry grows slower, the sugar content becomes more intense. So strawberries harvested in the summer aren't going to be as sweet because they grow too quickly. It's that slow grow that creates a higher sugar content. So put this on the plate here. Keep it in your mind. Next up.

00:06:19 Kanae Daub: I eat all strawberries.

00:06:20 John Daub: No! What? She ate all the strawberries. She just left the custard. That's not right.

00:06:30 Kanae Daub: No, it's right.

00:06:31 John Daub: No, I guess that is right. But I didn't tell you to do that. Okay, it's all right. It's all good. I bet you the strawberries kind of taste the same anyways. This mess on the table over here, just so you know here, that's the we do postcards every month. And we're doing the labels for the postcards there. It's kind of a lot of work. But it's not bad. That's what the mess is over there. So we're taking a break eating sandwiches.

00:07:00 John Daub: How was the custard?

00:07:03 Kanae Daub: Honestly, I don't feel the custard taste a lot with this sandwich. I don't know why. It's interesting.

00:07:12 John Daub: I guess the custard, the strawberries overpower more. Actually, the strawberries are sweeter than the custard. Right? The custard, ichigo (strawberry) is sweeter, right?

00:07:22 Kanae Daub: Yes, that's right.

00:07:23 John Daub: Yeah. So I thought that was pretty interesting. And the taste of the white bread is stronger than the custard. And that is really weird because I would think that the white bread is a blank canvas. But that custard, it doesn't really have enough flavor. And I'm going to get a second go at it after we take a look at some of the other ones. Next up, 7 minutes and 45 seconds in. This is the 7-Eleven strawberry sandwich. Again, 7-Eleven, probably the best one. It is more expensive than the Lawson's sandwich. This is the most expensive of them all. The ichigo custard was 322 yen, 348 with tax. This is 386 with tax. This is strawberry, custard, and whipped cream. So you got a trifecta in there. All three of the good stuff.

00:08:11 Kanae Daub: No custard?

00:08:12 John Daub: No, no, no. There's custard.

00:08:30 Kanae Daub: I think they put custard cream inside the whipped cream.

00:08:35 John Daub: Oh, the whipped cream and the custard were whipped together. Yeah. It's whipped custard. It's not mayo. Who wrote that? Yeah, it's not mayo. It's not mustard either. All right. In the middle of the sandwich. Oh, this one just, it does look better. And I noticed in the Lawson sandwich, it kind of had a lot of empty spaces, meaning the cream didn't go all the way to the ends. The ends are open and the custard was all just slam dunked in the middle. This one looks like it's spread a little bit more. Of course, the cream is still there. But they have to find a way to keep the moisture on the strawberries there. And in the packaging, it's even more appetizing. They've done a good, good job with that. Again, the separation just filled it up, a little bit of space there. Did they put in a strawberry in the middle? Oh, they did. They added in. Whoa. This is a big deal, everybody. Okay, they really did a lot of work compared to the Lawson's ones. They spread the strawberry out. You can see the custard on the bottom, the strawberries, and then the whipped cream. That's why this one cost an extra what, like 40 yen. All right, in how much in dollars, this would be about three dollars and 80 cents. Yeah, this one looks the best. Let's give it a try.

00:10:32 Kanae Daub: The Lawson's strawberries were sweeter. I don't know if it was because they added sugar to it but I think 7-Eleven uses different strawberries. Of course but the Lawson's one was sweeter. Yeah, strawberry is sweeter. I don't know, Lawson's one is sweeter but I like whipped cream so ah yeah I like 7-Eleven's cream more than yeah Lawson's.

00:11:29 John Daub: Yeah, I, this one is a better balanced sandwich. I was just disappointed Lawson's had better strawberries and not great custard. This one has okay strawberries but the custard and sometimes maybe it's better that the strawberries are not overly sweet because then it would overpower the other ingredients but it seemed to be the best balance. And the whipped cream goes really well with the custard. Look, I'm not going to complain: whipped cream, yes check; custard, check; strawberries, check. It's great.

00:12:14 Kanae Daub: You don't like whipped cream? I'll eat the cream if you have it added but if it's a birthday cake, Japanese like to have whipped cream cakes, yeah, shortcakes. I want sugar and butter icing. They have just whipped cream. Imagine a cake with no butter and sugar, it's just whipped cream. Boring.

00:12:33 John Daub: All right, that's not bullying to you, to me I want the sugar and the butter. If my heart's not feeling it and neither am I. This is our third one, 12 minutes and 56 seconds in, this is the finale from Family Mart and everybody knows the jingle. Demonetized. All right, let's open it up here. Um, this one you know I thought this was really interesting and I wonder if they added in mikan (mandarin orange). I guess this is mikan, right? Yeah, it's interesting they call it mikan, Japanese mikan but in English they translate it as tangerine and I'm not exactly sure if that's the same. Mikan is mikan and tangerine is I think they're different but guess in translation most people aren't reading the tangerine anyway they'd read ichigo no fruit mix sando (strawberry fruit mix sandwich). Yeah. So it's a mixed fruit sandwich and the price is about 350 yen but they didn't go with all strawberry. Our Family Mart wanted to be different and you cannot blame them. Mikan are in season and so are pineapples, okay well at least they're in the stores now. So they put in ichigo, strawberries, mikan, and pineapple. These are all found in the winter. And they wanted to be different than 7-Eleven and Lawson's. And you got to give them credit. Sometimes being bold and different is a good thing.

00:14:09 Kanae Daub: You want to open it up? Okay.

00:14:12 John Daub: But I wonder if it can be a fair comparison because it does have other fruits. In that, we're going more towards which convenience store has the better winter sandwich with strawberries. And hey, one had custard and cream. Another one didn't. One had custard only. One had custard and cream. This one has mixed fruits. It's going to be a battle. Just the colors are much more pronounced. Look at that. It's heavier. I don't know if that's the bread in there. The strawberries look not as red, though.

00:14:53 Kanae Daub: Yeah. So fresh. Maybe not fresh. Just not as premium as strawberry, I think. Or different colors. Different variety of strawberry.

00:15:17 John Daub: This is strawberry. Ooh. This is a big mess. Ooh. They did put a strawberry. That is so cheap. That's not even half a strawberry. That's like a quarter of a strawberry. Family Mart. Oh, my. Oh, look at the bread's already manhandled. I can't give it back now. My fingerprints are on it. That is not a lot of mikan. That's like, that is so, look how strong. That is a rip off, man. I want to see. Is this fair? Is this fair? This is like, is it, does that constitute a strawberry? That's so small. That's why, that's why, um, that it's not so red because it's so thinly cut. So, ah, it's just, it's too thinly cut. What do you think? Chime in in the comments below. Let me know. I mean, in terms of, um, and we're going to give our feedback. It is a scam. Well, let's see what the taste. All right. Itadakimasu.

00:16:29 Kanae Daub: Here you go.

00:16:44 John Daub: It's interesting. It's defined. Did they put margarine on it?

00:16:50 Kanae Daub: Yeah. I think there's like some margarine on it. What the heck is up with this? Just margarine on it. Custard. Right? I think it's custard. It tastes like margarine. It's not mayonnaise. I think it's syrup from mikan.

00:17:11 John Daub: Mikan syrup? I don't think so. It doesn't taste like mayonnaise. It tastes like margarine to me. But it's not in the ingredients. I don't know. The problem is, after two bites, all you do is you have a backside of bread. Soggy bread. Very, very confusing. I don't know what to think about this. Because I've never seen sandwiches that were so mediocre before. Right now, I'm actually, if you are on Discord, I'm actually in the chat. So if you want to chat, I think I can hear you. But whatever you do, if you do chat, do not dominate the conversation. Just hit and go. So everybody will be able to hear you. Kanae's got tea.

00:18:29 Kanae Daub: I said that I need something harder. You have tea. How about tea?

00:18:36 John Daub: Yeah. Actually, the cherry blossom cans of beer are out. And because you cannot come to Japan, you will not be able to try these cherry blossom cans of beer. It's a shame. Almost all of you who are watching won't be able to come to Japan for cherry blossoms this year. Oh, wow. We got a lot of people in the chat. You can try to talk. No one's talking. Everybody's being quiet, I think. Somebody said something. Somebody said, hey. That's gross. All right, let me put this on here. Yeah. So we're not actually alone here. Noise suppression is on. And speaker volume. Yeah, the sandwich is pretty good. Just disappointing with the amount of fruit on there. I've never seen. What's that? This one here is an Ebisu that I've never seen before. Usually they're gold, the red or they're. I've seen the green one and a purple one. I've seen other colors. A red one. Yeah. But I've never seen one that was like blue green before. This is a golden ale. So I figured I would just try this with you all. Because it's Friday night here, right? It's Hanakin. Yum. Oh, that's a bad one. Oh, my God. Nothing goes better with fruit sandwiches than an ice cold Ebisu. You can see that is a golden ale. That's something good here. It kind of is, but I don't. Patience. Patience. It will eventually. Somebody said, okay, I'll tell you a little secret. When I was in college, it would be at the age of 21, because I cannot admit that I drank before that. Somebody, I think it was like a senior, told me, if you take the oil from your nose, just the outside, don't put it in. And you go like this, then the bubbles go down faster. It's true. So you got to take the oil off your side of your nose and go like this. It looks not clean. But it does. It goes down faster. Somebody told me it was a senior. And I was a senior, too. I like the normal Ebises better. Normal Ebises. How come I can't do speakerphone on this? That's what they say.

00:21:56 Caller (Patrick): How about now? I can hear you.

00:22:00 John Daub: We've been able to hear you. All right. Identify yourself, because all the icons are so similar. This is small. This is country, you know. Yeah. It's a peso. That's one of our moderators. Uh oh. I'm here, John. Oh, hey. All right. These are, these go perfect with fruit sandwiches. This is what we call karaage (fried chicken) Pringles. Karaage are deep fried chicken, Japanese deep fried chicken. And Pringles does make a very, very different kind of a, kind of a like a sauce Pringle here because it is Japan. My problem with... Yeah, the problem with the Pringles is that they all taste like cardboard to me. I don't know why. I've never been impressed with Pringles. I actually don't even want to eat them. I'm just going to show them to you and that's it. I'm more of a Lay's man myself. Lay's are good. Lay's would be like the Calbee of America. We don't have Lay's in here. Yeah. Pringles aren't real potatoes, aren't they? They're just like powdered stuff. I think it's like potato flakes reconstituted into a chip. That's why they have that arc. So it's not real. I know. I mean, it's kind of like... Yeah. I think the thing with Pringles is the seasoning. What flavor do they put in there? This one is karaage deep fried Japanese chicken pieces. I have some ramen flavored Pringles, which we sent to Daimyo supporters. I sent boxes of Japanese goodies every month to some supporters. They said it tasted like cardboard. One person said it tasted like ass. So I think that there is a lot of debate on whether or not Pringles are any good at all.

00:24:06 Kanae Daub: I ate that before. What? I think I ate that before. Yeah. I was talking about the ass.

00:24:15 John Daub: That's where that comment came from then. I see. I see. Hey, Peter. Peter's here. While you all are all on late from Tokyo, here's to making your own better fruit sandwiches. Thank you. And actually, I think in the live stream in the summer, because when we had all of our stay-at-home live streams, one of the things that I got was fruit sandwiches from a very expensive shop. I think it was 10 dollars.

00:24:41 Kanae Daub: And it was mango, right? Yeah, you got the mango sandwich. Yeah. They put... It was nice. That was really good. And they put like 300 grams of mango in there, right? 300 grams of mango. That's so heavy.

00:25:21 John Daub: Yeah. Convenience stores... Like the whole purpose of convenience stores, it's not a place where you should be eating your meals. And I have a lot of friends, most of them are not Japanese. Well, unless you're a really busy person, you don't eat your meals from convenience stores. It's kind of like grab and go. Right. It's supposed to be if you're just in a hurry or you're just in a bind. And you go to the convenience store to get a bento. But a lot of tourists or visitors that come to Japan end up eating most of their meals at convenience stores because it looks so appetizing and so delicious. The problem, though, is that it's full of sodium. It's full of fat. It's full of stuff that you really should not be eating like on a daily basis. You could probably survive. Not all Japanese food is healthy. In fact, Japanese food can be really not healthy, too. Like karaage. Deep fried chicken. Tempura.

00:26:32 Kanae Daub: Yeah. It's just so good, though.

00:26:38 John Daub: I mean, even those fruit sando. When I first tried a fruit sando in Tokyo, like the strawberries and cream, I thought it was going to be sour because that's how I imagined strawberries taste like. But they're so sweet.

00:26:51 Kanae Daub: It's a good point. It's not too sweet, but just the right amount of sweetness.

00:26:55 John Daub: That's a good point. When I'm in Japan, I'm always eating a lot of sweet food. I'm not in the US back home. The strawberries we get, they do have a like a tartiness to it, like a sour tartiness to it. Again, those are probably quicker grown, smaller strawberries. But in Japan, these strawberries, you can get a pack of six. Each strawberry will cost a dollar for one. All right. That's probably why they shave it down to just like the micro, like the skin of the strawberry. Because the strawberries are... I was watching a Japanese TV show about two years ago. It was a late night show and they had on strawberry farmers on the show. They wanted to know what strawberry, what kind of car do strawberry farmers drive. A couple of them had Ferraris. These strawberry farmers in Japan are all multi-millionaires. Because the strawberries that they sell, it's amazing, are so delicious, so sweet, and so expensive. They sell each one for like a dollar. Let's say they grow a million of them, right? Boom, there you go. Millionaire from growing strawberries. But they take care about the strawberry a lot. They do love the strawberries and care for each one as though they're like a child of theirs too because I used to live down the street from a strawberry farmer.

00:28:08 Kanae Daub: That's why it's cost a dollar. All the love they put in it I guess.

00:28:16 John Daub: Yeah, you can see with the apples and the pears and the peaches they actually will wrap each individual fruit to protect it from the elements when it gets to a certain size so also when it falls it's also protected when if it were to fall off of the tree because it's all value. If you lose one apple you lose like a couple of dollars because an apple, um, I was at the store we saw three dollar fifty cent apples um which is normal seven dollars for a pack of two and those will be some of the best apples that you'll ever have each one is so sweet it's so then there's so many varieties here in Japan too but they treat the apples just like children it's this i think it's an apple is an apple but it's more than an apple here to the farmer right yeah i don't even treat my children that special wow wow.

00:29:20 John Daub: How about UFO Bob, what's the best fruit sandwich you've ever had? You'll never believe this but I've never had one.

00:29:31 Kanae Daub: What? Every time I see you do one of these videos my mouth waters and I think it's something that you can't. That's the first thing I buy when I get off the plane: fruit sandwich. Go for this go for a bowl of ramen and sushi before the fruit sandwich. It's gonna be your good night dessert because we're eating this at midnight now or you could do like um DIY food sandwich or something you can do that you could try it yeah. Yeah but pretty rare like fruit sandwiches are quite rare and to be preparing that style. Well I know what I'll do I'll have the ramen and I'll have the sandwich for dessert. Sounds pretty good sounds pretty good.

00:30:15 John Daub: Mine was like um all right it's time to we're gonna have to close this up here which one looked the best to you um 7-Eleven Family Mart or Lawson's.

00:30:34 Kanae Daub: Lawson's. Lawson's pretty good really not the 7-Eleven Lawson's.

00:30:48 John Daub: Yeah, they say so in the Netherlands. You got me on Lawson's that the strawberries were sweeter. Ah, okay. Yeah, it gives more texture. I don't know, is it the sugar maybe? I don't know, I'm still excited about this. I don't think sugar is in there. We're checking the label to see if any extra... More strawberry? It's like this, right? Alright, yeah, the strawberries were not sugar-fied. They're actually just that sweet, and they were really sweet. So maybe they're using better strawberries. Yeah, they didn't like which kind of strawberries they're using, but... Yeah, that's interesting. Thanks for joining us, guys, on the Discord. Appreciate you tuning in and sharing some of your experiences.

00:31:35 Caller (Patrick): No problem, man. No worries. Hey, John, before you go, I'd like to make a pitch to everyone out there watching. Hey, if you're not part of Discord, join it. You could have been part of this conversation. You could have been part of Discord. That's true. And you might get the giveaway as well. That's right. We need some Discord boosters. You might get a postcard. In fact, I will give out some postcards to the boosters this month.

00:32:03 John Daub: Hey, not all of you. Keep expectations low. Alright, this is the postcard. This is Japan Airlines, and you see those two guys down at the bottom? They're bowing and waving to every passenger, and every Japan Airlines and every ANA flight. You'll see that the service crew, after they've checked off on the airplane, even in the worst weather, and it was like minus 15 this day with a lot of snow coming down, the crew was out there, bowed to everybody, all of the passengers, and stood there waiting for a while as the plane took off. They do.

00:32:40 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:32:42 John Daub: They bow really low and they wave to all of the people, and that's this month's postcard. Hey, John. They did... If you fly on the... They did so better. It's so... So like, for the sandwich, which makes me like, I don't want to... Yeah. Thanks for sharing that, Patrick. Thanks, guys. See you later. See you. Alright. Patrick was saying that he got fruit sandwiches on the flight. He lives in Thailand. And... That would be the... That would be really good sandwiches. I think that the airline serving fruit sandwiches would be pretty cool. Just put more custard in there. Kanae, which one did you like better? Lawson's, Family Mart, or 7-Eleven?

00:34:04 Kanae Daub: 7-Eleven.

00:34:06 John Daub: Yeah. 7-Eleven. I'm going to go with 7-Eleven as well. I think it was just... They spread... It's more a case of... The strawberries might have been a little bit sweeter with the Lawson's. You get two good bites of nice strawberries, and then you get three bites of nothing. Just white bread. Yeah. They did an awful job of spreading the custard on there. And 7-Eleven did the best job of trying to go wall to wall with the cream, with the custard, and also with the strawberries. And I think that it had a really good balance between it. The strawberries were sweet. Not overly sweet, but sweet enough to go good with custard. I don't think you even need custard with the Lawson ones, because the strawberries are that sweet. If the strawberries were this sweet, I wouldn't eat them in a sandwich. You could just eat them as is and be eating candy. So I thought that the Lawson's one came in second, and the Family Mart one is a very distant third, because the fruit I got in there was abysmal.

00:35:05 Kanae Daub: Do you know what that means? Imi wakaru (do you understand the meaning)? Abysmal? Abysmal. That's a gremlin. Gremlin kado (gremlin corner?). It means very bad.

00:35:17 John Daub: It was very bad. So, what did you think of the Family Mart one with pineapple and mikan?

00:35:23 Kanae Daub: Yeah. I was like, hmm, it's okay. I can eat that, but I don't feel it's so fresh. So, fruits. Yeah. It didn't seem quite as fresh. 7-Eleven and Lawson seemed fresher. And cream is better. 7-Eleven cream is much, much, much better.

00:35:52 John Daub: I noticed that 7-Eleven puts a lot of sugar in there. It's a little bit more attention into the ingredients than the other convenience stores, but they're starting to catch up. Lawson's has really improved a lot, and Family Mart has always been second behind 7-Eleven. In the rankings, it goes 7-Eleven, Family Mart, Lawson's in terms of popularity in Japan, and 7-Eleven, I think, just has more locations. Of course, convenience stores in Japan are very regional. 7-Eleven is popular in one area, and in another area like Shikoku, Lawson's is more popular in different regions. Right. Down in Hokkaido, Seicomart is more popular than 7-Eleven, although 7-Eleven is everywhere. Seicomart is more local Hokkaido. In Hiroshima, Popura was another convenience store that you could mostly find in Hiroshima. So, convenience stores in Japan are very regional. Mini Stop is also one. I couldn't find a sandwich from Mini Stop, but they also got a lot of locations. As well as Circle K. Circle K was a lot bigger. I was in Japan 10 years ago, 20 years ago when I first came, and I'm having trouble finding Circle K. If you want to know what all the convenience stores are in Japan, when you get your gas bill or you get your electric bill in the mail, you pay your bills at the convenience stores. On the back of the bill, we'll have every single logo of every single convenience store on the back. And that's pretty neat because you can see which ones are still in business and which ones are not. And Circle K is one. I think I didn't see it on the back of the bill, so they might have gone out or been swallowed up by 7-Eleven or something. It's a lot of good history. But for me, yeah, these fruit sandwiches, something that you should try when you do come to Japan. I hope you enjoyed this episode and it makes you a little bit hungry. We're doing our best to try to stay at home and make it really interesting. Oh, and for the Daimyo supporters. I'm also going to be putting in one of these Tomica postal vans in your Daimyo packages tomorrow. We're going to be sending them out. This year has been really tough on the postal workers, and I love the Japanese post office. So I'm going to add one of these little Japanese post office vans into your packages just to say thank you for being patient. And I know that I had to send things to the US by sea-mail for like six months when airmail was shut down during the pandemic and supporters are really, really patient. So I do appreciate that and all the others, all the support here. Ryan is a new traveler. Thank you, Ryan. Much appreciated. And really, really all the chats go disappeared. There's so many bugs with the YouTube app. It kind of comes and goes. Yeah, I'm sorry if I missed any of them here. I think I saw it here. I can't go back any further. That's weird. Here to the Ron is here. I saw that here to the Ron. Any last questions before we shut off here tomorrow? I'm going to try to do the Lego by myself because she did. She did this whole thing. She did the entire bonsai tree here. This is made from Lego, and we did a live stream on this about two weeks ago. It is pretty nice, but she did almost all of it. I helped. Or it kind of got in the way. So you're going to do it alone. I'm going to try to do it alone if I can. Hey, Tonya is here. Tonya, thank you. And surprised cat tea from Singapore. Hey, John, don't waste the strawberry sand. We won't waste it. We won't waste it. That's for sure. Peter, thank you. While you all lead from Tokyo. I appreciate that, too. Just want to make sure I said thank you. Tony P's in the house. That's Tony. How you doing, Tony? Thanks, Tony. Yeah. Let's see. Any questions we can take one or two before we got to go to bed because it's midnight. Hey, lovely. Tuck Hill is here heading over to the 711 midnight food run. Snack video is making me hungry. Regards. Regards to you both. I know I got to do more midnight snack runs. I'm a diabetic, so I'd like to know if the packing has nutritional information. I didn't see it from the views I've seen. Do they have nutritional information? That's a great question. Not in the same way. They put the ingredients on there and they do write in not in a list. And this is something that does annoy me a little bit compared to the US. They do tell you how many calories are in it, but they don't tell you the percentage of sugars and things like this. So you do have to sugar toast. Yeah, they put they say that sugar is the ingredient, but they don't say how much like what percentage of vitamin A vitamin. So they just tell you the total calories and they tell you the ingredients. And from what I was told, the ingredients that are first on the list is the one used the most, but they won't give you the recipe, of course. So I hope that's helpful. Is it calories per serving or per 100 grams? I think it's all of them. Hold on a second. How many more? I believe it's all together. Yeah, 199. It's all of them. All of them. The whole package or just one sandwich? Yeah, one pack. So the calorie count would be for the entire pack. How many calories in Lawson's? That's a good question. So 7-Eleven's was 253 kilocalories. 253. 180. So Lawson's was 180 and Family Mart? 199. Whoa! So 7-Eleven's was 253. Family Mart, 199. Lawson's, 180. So Lawson's is the healthiest, but they had like almost no strawberries on there. You're basically just eating a piece of bread. All right. Tokyo Tom, feeling protege on? A little bit. It could be the fruity beer that I have here, which is, it's not as good as the original. It's not as good as the original. A little bit too sweet. That beer is a little too sweet. John already did a sake brewery tour, I believe. I did, and I was going to go do a sake brewery tour in Tochigi in early March, but it was canceled because of the state of emergency. So unfortunately, I won't be making that trip. I will be, however, going next week to Akita. That has not been canceled. And as far as I know, until they call me, I'm going to be going up there for a festival in Oga Peninsula, which is a peninsula up there in Akita for just one night. But you're going to come with me in the Only in Japan Go. So I'm going to share with you a really cool festival. Get a chance to get outside the house a little bit. Thanks for working tonight. You and Kanae look marvelous. Billy Crystal. I had Billy Crystal actually in my mind too. I can't think of a weirder place than Japan to relocate. Exactly. That's why Japan is the perfect place to relocate. Yeah. If you do want to join our Discord, there's over 10,000 in our Discord right now. A lot of people sharing pictures, stories. The Japanese food community is pretty interesting. And you get to ask questions about the food that you can see there too. As well as if you are a Patreon supporter, we do have special chat groups in there. But it's free for everybody to use. Discord's pretty cool. And you can call in and talk to each other too. If the chat's not enough for you. Because sometimes you just want to talk to people. And Discord's a pretty good place to do that. Just keep it civil. We have moderators there too. For those disruptive people. There's always one. Or two. Actually there's more like two or three. I thought Simon said don't eat fruits in Japan because they never taste good again. Could be. If you do eat fruits in Japan. Well we live here. So we're not going home. This is home. So we eat the fruits here. Fruits in Japan. I really do think that you have to eat them. Because if you are not eating them when you come here. You're missing out on something special. Whether it's the mangoes from Miyazaki. Or the watermelons from Hokkaido. Or the cherries from Yamagata or Yamanashi. The peaches in the summer in Fukushima and Yamanashi. And down in Okayama. That's really nice. Yeah those Okayama white peaches. You know the grapes at the end of summer and in the fall. The strawberries right now. The mikans are all out. I love the fact that Japan is so seasonal. And the fruits do come out on the season. And that's how I kind of appreciate the seasons more as a result of the fruits that come out. It's still kind of apple season. The apple harvest is all the way up to December. And we're starting to get apples. But the apple season probably start to end this year. This week. And then we'll see some more strawberries until March. And then we start to move into different kinds of fruits. Which is always exciting. You can get excited by fruits. Get very excited. Especially if you pay 10 dollars for a pack of them. We got a new insider. Who's that there? Hey! Frisbee with double I. Thank you. Welcome. I'll be doing some secret streams for our insiders as well. In the next couple of days. And Patreon question and answer coming this week. Have a great day. See you tomorrow. As I try to put some Legos together. We have some pretty cool live streams. And we'll be traveling next week outside of Tokyo. Have a good day. Have a good night. Wherever you are in the world. Don't forget to subscribe. See you soon.

00:46:12 Kanae Daub: See you. Good night.