I’m going on a big trip abroad later this week so I’m not risking more being in it so trash it goes
I wanted to I pass out candy that was a good representation of American tastes or just interesting in some way
So we have butterscotch discs, cinnamon discs, roobeer barrels (apparently no one will like), star bursts that are solid competition to hichew, blue raspberry jolly ranchers (Americans don’t have black currant because the fruit can be a carrier for a fungus that was hurting the logging industry a long time ago so it was made illegal so we have blue raspberry), banana laffy taffy (unique because its flavor is of the commercially extinct gros michele banana), and smarties and dum dums which is Japan would be ton tons (onomatopoeia)
I had pillow / airy mints but I believe they had actual peppermint oil in them amd were so intense that they were not gonna play nice in the bag with other candies
I’m making samplers of American tastes to hand out, so root beer, butterscotch, puffy mints, smarties, I’m also doing dumdums, and I’ll see if I can get a bag of blue raspberry jolly ranchers and runts banana or banana laffy taffy
I think that rounds out American flavors well enough
(The Japanese love word play so smarties and dum dums are gonna be a joy to them, I plan on having little QR codes that explain everything)
I’m doing Tokyo Kyoto Osaka Nobara in 2 weeks so if you wanna meet DM me
Im bringing vintage advertisement pencils and whatever else people want