Yesterday, we made a last-minute trip to the state's largest city and capital, Columbia for a check on Japanese food in the area. Since Tanpopo (Dandelion in English), the one Japanese grocery store in our city, is slow to non-existant these days with not much to offer other than the basics. The store is next to the sushi bar, Sushi Masa who runs the sushi bar and his wife runs Tanpopo. Ten years ago, Greenville was the home to Hitachi and Fuji Film in nearby Greenwood but nowadays they still exist but are nothing more than a glorified American branch office that has their home office elsewhere. I'll go into that more later.
Anyway, the trip to Columbia was a waste since there were no Japanese markets there. This was surprising since Columbia is bigger than Greenville but a true reading on the international business scene in my home state.
Today, my wife made it over to Tanpopo after work and came home with $40 of Japanese goods. One of the items was Lotte's "Koala's March" Chocolate Creme Filled Cookies. This was bought on purpose by my wife who later told me the story of how as a 4th grader in elementary school her class was asked to sample this product and provide feedback to Lotte. The small cookie has the image of a koala. Back in 1983, Lotte has several images and asked my wife and her classmates which one they found to be cuter. There were also different kinds of chocolate filling and they were asked to provide feedback on this.
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