Glico Pucchin Pudding

9-year-old Miyu Honda stars in this lovely pudding commercial. By the way, if anyone knows how to get in touch with Miyu, please let me know. I've written a pilot for a sitcom where she plays my robot daughter. (It's really funny. Like, she hates water and drinks oil and stuff, and we both learn from each other). While this is a very solid ad, I'm not sure if it's as good as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's pudding commercials.

Karujaga

Japanese Food Review #60

Karu means light and jaga is short for jagaimo, which means potato. These are hallow, crispy potato sticks. They're not fried. The Yoda box is cheese flavor, and the Darth Vader box is delicious salt. Who will win in this epic battle?

The back of the box is really cute and fun because it looks like Star Wars writing.　The first line tells us that the secret of the deliciousness is in the hole. This is the first time that I realized that I love stuff with holes. I guess that's where the saying, "A hole's a hole," comes from. The rest of the writing just tells you how they make it and that they're delicious, etc. Anyway, they were good.

Cheese Ratings:
Gaybot: 5
Girlbot: 4.5
Overall: 4.75

Delicious Salt Ratings:
Gaybot: 7  My only real complaint is that they're were not enough in the box.
Girlbot: 7  They were about as good as she was expecting.
Overall: 7

It's The Empire Strikes Back all over again.

R2-D2 Cecil Milk Chocolate

I know R2-D2 doesn't technically eat human food, but I've always thought that if he finally got his wish of becoming a real boy, he'd just absolutely adore milk chocolate. Apparently great minds think alike, because the marketing scientists at Glico have adorned the new Cecil Milk Chocolate packages with R2. There are four different R2 packages to choose from (gotta catch 'em all). And there's more! Look at what the chocolates are wrapped in.

You can't really tell, but those are special droid wrappers. Even C-3P0 makes an appearance. I'm ashamed to admit that this is the first time C-3P0 has been mentioned on a blog that claims to cover gaybot news. Mr. 3P0 is, of course, widely celebrated in the gay community. Many give him credit for making Americans realize that a homosexual can just be "one of the guyz," and that they can speak many languages fluently. George Lucas attempted to appease his Christian audience by pointing out that C-3P0 didn't have any genitals, but many scholars have pointed out that though Jake in The Sun Also Rises did not have working genitals, he was still very much a sexual being. This is just one of many plot points George Lucas seems to have stolen from Hemingway.

Star Wars Rubber Strap and Glico Heart Caramels

Star Wars Glico week roars on. Today we look at Glico's caramels. The box is normally red, but now the famous Glico man is running through space. As always, we are informed that one piece of caramel gives us enough energy to run 300 meters and that we can become strong in a delicious way. This time, they've included a special rubber strap!!

 There are 10 rubber straps in all, and I got the Luke Skywalker one. Rubber straps are used to make your phone look super cool. This one sticks into the earphone jack (because what else would you use it for).

Darth Vader Pocky

Glico has teamed up with Lucasfilm to create several Star Wars products. We'll be taking an in-depth look at them this week. First up is this Darth Vader Pocky. It's just strawberry Pocky with a picture of Darth Vader on the cover. I'd always thought that Darth Vader's lightsaber was pink because girls like pink and are evil, but it turns out that Darth Vader was nuts about strawberries, I guess. It reads, "Deliciousness is power!" The box is nice and reminds you that Star Wars was pretty "radical." Then you flip it over to realize it is promoting the prequels.

 Where's Jar Jar! Clearly the art designers at Glico are idiots, right? But the plastic bag inside is kind of cool.

Lightsabers, Pocky, and strawberries floating through space. I'm sure Mr. George Lucas sometimes gets fed up with the world he has created, but every once in awhile a great product like this is created. He must be thinking, "It's all worth it," and, "I am a modern day Jesus," right about now.

Dororich

Do you like sex with cheerleaders? Then you'd for sure be into this coffee jelly and whipped cream drink..., or something.