You seems you can now buy unko bath salts. It may look like a turd, and it will turn your bathwater brown, but JiG Paradise, who began selling it in their party goods line-up last month, say it smells of roses. I wonder if you can make your own natural version by eating a lot of these? You shouldn't try it with this since it says "Do not eat" on the side of the packaging. There's also a list describing various types of excrement which, oddly, doesn't match the four categories mentioned in the "Poo-Poo Song". For instance, there is the "machine gun unko" which exits rapidly and demands you get your trousers down in time. The "air unko" is when you feel you have something to get out of you system but all you can do is fart while the "NO! air unko" is the unfortunate case where the opposite happens. According to this article (Japanese) staffers at JiG Paradise had a disagreement over what to call the product. Older workers wanted to use the word unchi but younger members insisted on unko nyuyokuzai and that was the name selected. In case you are wondering, this article (Japanese) explains how the Japan Toilet Association has some firm ideas about the difference between the two words. In their children's book "Unpi, Unyo, Unchi, Unko - Poo in Pictures", the association says that unchi refers to a healthy stool which comes out smoothly and reflects a balanced diet. Unko, on the other hand, is darker, smellier, requires more effort and is evidence of a lack of vegetables in the diet. From a technical standpoint, then, it appears the older guys at JiG were correct although the younger guys were right from a marketing viewpoint. Apologies if recent posts appear to be on the same theme, it may reflect my recent reading,
