Tokyo Banana: The Oriental Twinkie


mmm...Tokyo Banana cake.

No other souviner comes close from the megaopolis that is Tokyu.

The filling, it appears is based on banana, or so it would seem as the one I gobbled down yesterday had banana colorant and natural banana flavor.

While mascot-less, this little yellow zinger is top of the filled-spongecake genre, I think.

And whilst I write this, that poor sap Twinkie the Kid (a cartoon mascot of Hostess, maker of Twinkies, Cupcakes, Snoballs and so on...) sheds a partially hydrogenated tear of jealousy. But never fear, as TTK is off again on his quest to fatten the fattest of the fatties, lassoing them in at discount bakery outlets, convienence stores and supermarket aisles nationwide.

Here is what the Tokyo Banana has written on its wrapper:

"Peope gather to Tokyo from here and there with memories of their home. And then, Tokyo gets everyone's home town. Tokyo Banana."

I wonder, would a green tea-flavoured Twinkie catch on in Japan?

arthritic pigs riddled with kleenex packs...

Yep, that's right. yesterday i saw a high school student, frsh out of her University admissions exam at Kobe's Konan Daigaku, get a pack of tissues from a hawker, and then she threw it at a pair of graying, feeble wild boar who were foraging in broad daylight (rare, as they are nocturnal) in a nearby "riverbed" which is basically a concrete channel used for flood control. The "river" was strewn with litter and nasties tossed there, we must assume by the future of Japan, whom are imbedded with neither a proprt concept of how to act when they see non-human life or any sort of guilt for ruining an ugly ugly cityscape called Okamoto, Japan.