you don"t need to save the crystal for a special day, even water tastes better in a "Fancy Glass"

Thursday, June 02, 2005

chewing gum that's fun for everyone

Extria?
Japanese candy and gum has some great tortured English names. And some interesting product ideas- from Black Black, the famous gum (popular with geeks worldwide) with caffeine, to Extria, the dessert gum I was given after dinner in a yakiniku (or grilled meat barbque place last night) Extria is by Lotte a famous Japanese candy maker (their english page can be see here) that rolls out new product ideas just about every week.

Some other crazy gum names and ideas from Japan can be seen at
Engrish.com I particularly like the “Booing Aquaman” gum which is blue soda flavored…. Whatever that means.

and last but not least...Here’s another great list of 12 crazy japanese product names from over at crowndozen

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