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Hello and welcome to the Aburundra Pound Podcast, probably the best way of learning about life in Japan without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Broder, but join us always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr. Pete Donaldson Pete.

How are you doing? What's going on?

I'm good. My partner has just got back from Chicago, so she's brought me a big bag of, this is a particular candy called Sweet Arts,

and they're these big sour discs. They're like the size of manhawk covers, they're brilliant.

And you buy them in 7-Eleven, and I think they're like an old candy, an old style candy, and they just even talking about them making my mouth water.

I recently started the day with a big ball of really sour, really sweet, really accurate, aggressive sweets.

So I know how my Monday is going to go. A double espresso, some clomato juice, a pot of Amazon, and some Sweet Arts candy.

I'm going to be being sick by about five o'clock, so my day's gone very well, I'm full of sugar, but I may not last the day.

The American diet for you there?

Yes, exactly.

I've never heard of these things. I mean, American candy, there's so much of it, isn't there?

I remember the time I gave the like Natsuki some Hershey's. I did a blindfold taste test with chocolate, and he sniffed the Hershey's and he went,

or animal smell. And it does, it does, they have got a very unique sort of smell, it's very sort of sicky. It's pretty bad, it's pretty bad. We win on the chocolate front, probably the candy. I think British candy is better than American candy.

There's a very rarely a Salmonella outbreak in British candy, I told them so.

The last one was in Easter, which I think was the Kinder Surprise. No, I don't think it was a Kinder. It was a...

No, it was so much.

Someone had some big brand had a pretty hefty Salmonella outbreak in there, in their Easter chocolate, which is a big issue for a lot of people obviously, because that's probably where they make all their money.

I look at things to come for the, a Braunchpan snack box. It's just a big box of Moldy Salmonella outbreak. I've just eaten like all the chicken of Sendai, given that I'm like going away this week.

Oh yes!

The UK finally. I wanted to have like a last supper, and you know, it was a loan. I was a loan. I sit in there.

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