00:01 John Daub: Ladies and gentlemen, this is chocolate gum. This is one of those top inventions where Japan and food have collaborated to make something that we never thought this combination would ever exist. I'm restarting this stream. I don't know what happened to the one before. I'm back again. But this is what you will find at all of the convenience stores right now. It's really wacky. In a good way, I guess. Check it out. So if you go into the convenience stores, you're going to find really unique products. In the supermarkets as well, cup noodles with seafood and curry. And there's some kind of French version going on right here. You won't find that in the United States or in Europe. When it comes to the chocolate and the confections, the collaborations are fun. There's a melon chocolate there. You can see the bakery items in the convenience stores. Here's one with CoCo Ichibanya curry. There's one with yakisoba bread there, which is always kind of bizarre to me. And the drinks as well. You'll find some wacky collaborations.

01:01 John Daub: I've seen curry milk, I've seen melon milk there. Tis the season. And then sticks, all sorts of processed sticks, good for protein if you're looking for that. There's chicken sticks, tofu sticks. Everybody's on a protein kick right now, including me, but I'm not sure if I would eat that. And then there's the gum, Black Black, which is loaded with caffeine. It'll mess you up if you eat a lot of that stuff. And then Kronky, which is a chocolate company made by Lotte. It's a kind of chocolate, kind of like Nestle's Crunch. And imagine if Crunch turned into a chocolate candy bar. That's sort of what we got here.

01:36 John Daub: And so I went into the convenience stores and got it out. Now these live streams turn into pieces of history because they don't often last for a long time. So this is the Kronky gum. I think this is kind of neat because I don't know how they came up with putting this together. There's 71 calories per stick. Is it gum? Is it chocolate? It says here it's got Puffy chip and then chocolate. So I'm not sure exactly what we're going to get. I haven't actually tried this yet either. So I'm looking forward to this Kronky gum experience. Boom. Here's what the stick looks like. When you open up the pack, it really does look like a pack of gum. Check it out. I guess you'd open it up like this. It's like boom. That looks like a pack of gum, right? I think there's seven sticks in there. It's got the foil. Is it gum or chocolate? Does it melt like chocolate?

03:00 John Daub: Oh, wow. What? Alright, that's unusual. We're going to have to go main lens here. Let's see. Wow, okay. Remember Mission Impossible? The one with Tom Cruise? He puts it together and he throws it on the window. I always wonder how it sticks without you chewing it. I wonder, Tom Cruise should explain that one. The first Mission Impossible. It might very well be the best one. I kind of like that one. Alright, let's try it. Chocolate? Gum? Both? Neither? Alright, smell? It smells like the chocolate when you were a kid. Do you remember the scratch and sniff chocolate? It never smelled like chocolate. It smelled a little bit like chocolate, but it smells like a scratch and sniff chocolate sticker from the 1980s, which is not a bad thing.

04:03 John Daub: Whoa! There's a crunch. Here, listen. Did you hear that? This is freaking weird. This is like mind-blowing. I'm going to blow a bubble. It's going to bring back memories of when maybe you took a piece of chocolate and a piece of bubble gum and then you ate them together and you got a round piece of chocolate and you're like, look, mom, I'm eating poo. I got a three year old. Don't blame him. Blame me. I said it before he said it. Well, here we go. Does it pass the bubble gum test? It doesn't blow very good bubbles, but the fact that I got that far with a piece of chocolate's pretty impressive. It's really fun. Alright, it doesn't blow the greatest bubbles in the world. Is it good? Yeah. You know what? It is pretty good.

05:24 John Daub: And a shout out to Tristan. Tristan, thank you for signing up for the daimyo on my daimyo box on Patreon. I'm going to be putting one or two of these sticks of chocolate gum in your daimyo package this month. If you want to join Patreon, I send out packages of food and goodies from Japan. I'm going to put this Tristan and anybody else who's out there who's a daimyo supporter, you're going to get one of these in your box this month. Okay. Cause it's just freaking weird. And you got to try this. David, can you move into the house? Thank you, David. I'll get something a little bit better than the gum. David, don't worry. I'll go back and get something better than chocolate gum. Japan is known for more than just chocolate gum. Check this out.

06:06 John Daub: This is a historical live stream. Going back to like 2016 when I was living in Shinozaki and another section of Tokyo, I found the chocolate cheese slices. It's sliced raw chocolate. We sell raw chocolate. It's kind of easy to melt. Yeah. It's 250 yen or like a dollar seventy or something like that. They also had these Philadelphia three cheese slices, which is really good. Like cream cheese in between two yellow cheeses. So I got this, I took it home. It was freaky because it came out brown. You open it up and it looks like this. This is like a low res live stream from 2016 or something, 17. So I look a lot younger too, but look how it rolls and bends. I just put some whipped cream in there and I tried it and it was pretty good. It's surprising. Chocolate cheese. It doesn't taste like chocolate, but it rolls and moves like processed cheese. I guess it's processed cheese. I don't know. This is, I don't even know if this is still available, but underneath there you have something pretty special. Would you eat that? Tell me in the comments below. This is something that you'd be into. I don't know. Maybe.

07:26 John Daub: I also found melon gum, which I think is pretty cool. This is also made by Lotte. They've had blueberry gum. They have mangosteen gum. Lotte. I don't know if Lotte still, I think you can still get it. Mangosteen gum, which is really interesting. If you've never had mangosteen, it's one of these fruits Queen Victoria said she would give a Queen's ransom to anybody who could bring one back that's still edible because they didn't have airplanes back then and nobody could. I don't think she ever ate a mangosteen, but it's one of those fruits from Thailand, Singapore. That's just like really good. Japan, you're starting to see them in the Costco. Which is interesting. You can get like seven or eight of them for a thousand yen, which is really expensive if you compare it to Thailand. Now the gum is good. It doesn't taste like chocolate, but it tastes more like gum than chocolate, but it doesn't taste really like gum, but you have the pleasure of chocolate. It's mind bending. This is really good. And Pokey has had the mangosteen gum or the magazines. Yeah, they're really good stuff.

08:30 John Daub: So I've got this Kronky here. This is the original bar. We're going to try this as it is. I'm going to open this up here and see how authentic it is. Does the gum taste like the chocolate? The only way to find out. You guys are joining me on a really hot summer August day. I would not be surprised if this was melted. You know, what's funny. The police officer was on a motorbike right before I started this and he waved to me. I wonder if the police officer watches the show as well. I've been doing a lot of live streams on the mega quake, which is sort of a negative. It comes in foil just like the way that the gum did. I've been doing so many hardcore mega quake stuff over the last three days. It's going to be nice to do something that wasn't a mega quake.

09:34 John Daub: All right. The foil and the chocolate, it is soft. So this is not good. I got to put this between my legs because I don't have a tripod. Yeah. Oh wow, it's really reflecting the Sun. Oh crud, this is a mistake. It's melted faster because the foil. I don't know if I can even. Oh no. You have to suck it. This is a little bit creamier and milkier and it's absolutely ruined. But yeah, you know the gum has the essence of the chocolate. Now how do I bring the chocolate home with that? I don't know what to do with it now. I gotta put it in the box here. Leo doesn't like chocolate. He says it gets in his teeth and it doesn't feel good. Hey, I'll eat his chocolate every day of the week. I was gonna try this but look, I'm not. It's probably melted too. This is Crown Melon mini chocolate cookies. So I might put one of these in those daimyo boxes as well. It's just weird. Alright, I gotta wash this down.

11:13 John Daub: Thank you John Kimura and for all the super chats. It does keep me cool down. So there you have it, a successful unboxing or unpackaging of chocolate gum. If you liked it hit that subscribe button. I'll eat some weird and wacky stuff here. I like the summer but in particular around fall we start to get more unusual stuff. Now they had blueberry gum. They also had blueberry gum flavored potato chips. I sent them to our daimyo supporters and it was kind of mind-blowing for some of them. And this was about four or five years ago. So I really appreciate. Oh and if you just sign up to the Patreon daimyo or the postcard club, this is this month's postcard. I'm working on this video right now. It's almost finished. This is every single square watermelon that is going around the country and the world from where they grow them Zentsuji and I was there at the harvest. It's quite a spread of watermelons. It's going to be a good episode. I love the people in Zentsuji and this is my fifth time actually to go to the city. Last time before this I took Trevor the Food Ranger there. We drove across the bridge from Okayama and we had some udon and soba and wagyu. And I got to drive him, him and Ting and Cody who's a Ramen Guide Japan on Instagram. We had a pretty good time.

12:52 John Daub: But I'm going back to Zentsuji next week. And I'm going to be meeting up with my friends there. Getting a little bit more in depth into the area. I love Kagawa Prefecture. I'm trying to show you places that are away from Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka. So again, I appreciate the support to get me around to these places. Yeah, those are Birkenstocks, the IVA. And these are the McDonald's delivery vans. What are they doing here? Oh, so this is their parking lot. The McDonald's is over there.

13:38 John Daub: Alright folks, that's all I got for you. It's a hot one. Stay cool if you're coming here to Japan. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. If you have any questions or concerns about this mega quake, you can also leave them in the comments below. It's really good to be prepared. Like the fire department is right now. What's going on? Something's happening. Hey, you're not allowed. You can't turn this. Oh yeah, you can turn this way. You're a fire truck. You can turn anywhere you want. Go get them. Awesome. Put out the fire that's on top of my head right now. It is so darn hot. Bye John. Go blue. Yeah, go bucks. Fight will continue. Alright everybody, have a good day. Have a good night. Stay cool out there. I'll be back tomorrow with another live stream as we talk about Japan and some of the other stuff going on.

14:43 John Daub: I'm going to Niigata Sado Island. And on Thursday or Friday on the 15th. Oh wow. Alright, I better go investigate this. Just over there. Oh my goodness me. I'm going to Sado Island in Niigata on the 15th. I'll be taking the Shinkansen up there. I'm hoping that there are no earthquakes so I can get there nice and smoothly. And I'll be taking you with me. I'll be doing a bunch of live streams up there. And then I come back for a day. And then the next week I go to Kagawa Prefecture where I'll be there for three days and bring you there. And then I'll be bringing you on live streams over there too. So it's going to be a lot of fun. Kagawa is in that mega quake zone. So we will see how this all plays out. But work is work. And I'm not afraid. But we will be going over there. And I'll be going over here just to make sure everything's okay. Not that I could do anything to help. Alright everybody, have a good day. Have a good night. I'll see you in the next live stream. Matane.