#51
Confectionery Crazy: I don’t know if I have told you. I like to eat biscuits and confectionery. Especially Japanese confectionery. I remember I used to get one or two every weekend when my parents brought us to the supermarket to do grocery shopping.
So last weekend I had my fair share of additional stock to my depleting stash of ‘biscuits’ – as I liked to call them.
One of my favorites would be Fran. And these are those I’ve finished.
Introducing from Left: Summer Fran – Milk, Summer Fran – Cacao, Fran Extra – Coffee & Chocolate, Fran Extra – Strawberry, Fran Extra – Green Tea, Fran Extra – Cacao, Fran Pie Snow – Strawberry, Fran Pie Snow – Hokkaido Milk
As you can see most of these boxes are empty. (I’m now kicking myself for not keeping the Blueberry Fran box I had sometime ago.) So there needs to be more Fran in the house.
Therefore. Some Fran and other stuff.
From Left: Bourbon’s Dream Theater Range – Snow White’s Apple Flavored Cookies, Cinderella’s Milk Cookies, and Ariel’s usushio flavored biscuits. Fran Aromatizer – Strawberry, Rum & Vanilla. Meiji’s Pucca Black. Morinaga’s Pakkuncho Milk: Mixed Fruit and Chocolate. Meiji’s Dippy in Chocolate and Strawberry. Meiji’s Macadamia in a limited edition Green Tea.
I was introduced to Fran in 2001 by a Japanese friend of mine. He told me all about this Fran factory in Japan and how popular this, how it revived Meiji’s business etc… By the time he finished, I had all the flavors of the original Frans in my shopping basket. And Fran has been my friend ever since. If you would like to know, I loved the Fran Blueberry one (which as I said is not pictured anywhere here because I had gotten rid of the box) and the Fran Extra: Strawberry. The Green Tea and the Rum & Vanilla ones are a close second. All the other Frans are third.
Dippy is very VERY nice. I eat YanYan from time to time, but Dippy is getting me addicted. In fact i finished 2 before these 2 came along. I had to get these to fill the emptiness. The chocolate one has wheat biscuits, and the strawberry one has chocolate biscuits. The dips are not too sweet, and have bits of chocolate or fruit grain in them respectively. This is a little more expensive than the usual YanYan I think but it’s definitely worth the moolah.
The Dream Theater Range is interesting. I was quite annoyed there was no Belle. And I was wondering if they were normal biscuits. (OK I was blinded by Aromatizer Fran and didn’t see how the Snow White one had a little ‘りんご’ flavor labeled.) I bought only the Snow White one first. The one in the picture is a second box. Because I finished the first.
HAHA. More reviews to come as I go along.
Reading: I need to read Boyd… I need to.. READ. – I will after this. I promise to read half the book today at least.
Leo: Time to do the sleevecaps! w00t!
Mosquitos: I think the lone mosquito I was so paranoid about died. I have been fumigating the study whenever I can. Good riddance. That doesn’t mean I’ve stopped being paranoid because I still am. So I’ve been diligent getting all the precautions done (like getting repellents of all sorts).
what exactly is Fran? Is it like Pocky?
Dream Theater Range? Like this?
yup Fran is just like pocky.. except the biscuit part is thicker, more flaky and often come in different flavors as well (most often chocolate) I can’t remember but I think I may have sent you one pack before.
what can I say, i’m nuts about these things!
Dream theater’s left with Snow White and Cindy now, CB.
I’ll check when I get home – if you sent a pack I will still have it since I haven’t been home enough to eat all the treats I received.