It does taste different!

[Maths Dude]

I drank alot of green tea while I was in Japan. I took the same brand of tea home to Oz, but it just didn't taste the same. Now I dont even bother drinking it. My woman also loved to eat 'timtams' (like a cookie) in Oz, but when she ate them in Japan, she hated them. WTF is goin on!?!?

[gomichild]

Must be all in the air particles.

[cstaylor]

I drank alot of green tea while I was in Japan. I took the same brand of tea home to Oz, but it just didn't taste the same. Now I dont even bother drinking it. My woman also loved to eat 'timtams' (like a cookie) in Oz, but when she ate them in Japan, she hated them. WTF is goin on!?!?

You know the leaves eventually go stale?

[Mike Oxlong]

Water quality is everything. Poms found the same thing back in the day when they were still importing tea from China (before they stole it and started growing their own in India). Tea sent to England just didn't taste the way it did when brewed in the Middle Kingdom. One bright chap had the sense to realize that dirty water don't really make tasty tea. Same holds true for beer...

[American Oyaji]

Sapporo Kuro Label here in the states, tasets completely different from Kuro label in Japan.

[Mike Oxlong]

Sapporo Kuro Label here in the states, tasets completely different from Kuro label in Japan.

Yeah, probably brewed in the USA under license of Sapporo. Same thing happens here - foreign beers brewed in Japan under license of the original brewery don't taste like the original. Better to go with the strictly imported stuff. Especially since many European brews don't contain additives/preservatives. Japan uses rice, corn syrup, and other fillers, cost-cutters, preservatives...

[tetsujin gaijin]

What always gets me is when you buy Sapporo in the US it's says "imported" so you think you are getting an imported Japanese beer. This is in fact true - from Canada!

[ichigo partygirl]

What always gets me is when you buy Sapporo in the US it's says "imported" so you think you are getting an imported Japanese beer. This is in fact true - from Canada!

Same in NZ - i think our is imported from Aussie.
Fanta grape tastes like shit here, but i loved it in Japan.

[American Oyaji]

What always gets me is when you buy Sapporo in the US it's says "imported" so you think you are getting an imported Japanese beer. This is in fact true - from Canada!

OMG...is that TRUE?????

[Taro Toporific]

Fanta grape tastes like shit here, but i loved it in Japan.

Japan doesn't allow the many of the common red and purple food dyes which give Grape Fanta that wonderfully nasty taste I luuuuve. :P


(Disclaimer: I've got a side job working for International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. here in Tokyo.)

[gomichild]

Actually I have grown to prefer the taste of Diet Coke here over Diet Coke back home. In Australia I dunno - it's just not chemical tasting enough.

[kamome]

AO, just check the label on the side of the bottle. It will state exactly where the beer was brewed and from what country it was imported. Some Sapporo beer I've seen in the states is actually imported from Japan. But the other J-beers are brewed in Canada at the Molson Breweries and imported to the States from there.

[sillygirl]

I NEVER drink milk in UK, love it here.

Kit-kats aren't as sweet in Japan as they are in Engerland

[ichigo partygirl]

I NEVER drink milk in UK, love it here.

Kit-kats aren't as sweet in Japan as they are in Engerland

eww i dont like japanese milk. its fat content is too high and it tastes weird. I drink super trim NZ milk.

NZ chocolate is heaps sweeter than Japanese chocolate. When i came back to NZ it took me ages to be able to eat a whole bar

[sillygirl]

Did you notice the bread in Japan is like a bathroom sponge.

Can't wait to chomp on some granary bread

[ichigo partygirl]

Did you notice the bread in Japan is like a bathroom sponge.

Can't wait to chomp on some granary bread

Japanese bread is good for toasties
mmmm nice brown seedy tasty bread. Its sooo good.

[Ketou]

Did you notice the bread in Japan is like a bathroom sponge.

Can't wait to chomp on some granary bread

Japanese bread is good for toasties
mmmm nice brown seedy tasty bread. Its sooo good.

Japanese mass produced bread is horrible. I cannot stomach the stuff. It has way too much sugar in it, tastes like some kind of danish gone wrong.

[B Gallagher]

ugh yes. japanese chocolate is so.. nanka.. .'chunky' and solid, compared with NZ chocolate. NZ chocolate seems to be a lot creamer and sweeter.

and better, imho.

and man, there's nothing than smelling freshly made bread in a bakery over in jland.. man they have some wicked concuctions that people would never thing of over here.

"it's chocolate, injected into the bread."
"what? get out! no way!" sorta thing :P

man i'm tired. and i need to change my sig. lol
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[Charles]

Japanese mass produced bread is horrible. I cannot stomach the stuff. It has way too much sugar in it, tastes like some kind of danish gone wrong.

I have long suspected there is some non-wheat additive in Japanese white bread, it reminds me of Potato Bread I get here in the US. I think it has "rice flour" added to it.

[GomiGirl]

Is it just me, but everytime I see this thread title, I think of semen...

I am a sick sick girl...

[gomichild]

Is it just me, but everytime I see this thread title, I think of semen...

I am a sick sick girl...

And this is why I feel I can't take you anywhere. :P

[GomiGirl]

Is it just me, but everytime I see this thread title, I think of semen...

I am a sick sick girl...

And this is why I feel I can't take you anywhere. :P

Sheesh, and all this time I thought it was because of something else..

(you fart in bed one time and this is what happens??)

[gomichild]

Is it just me, but everytime I see this thread title, I think of semen...

I am a sick sick girl...

And this is why I feel I can't take you anywhere. :P

Sheesh, and all this time I thought it was because of something else..

(you fart in bed one time and this is what happens??)

You farted at least 5 times - no wonder Tutu attacks you - besides the floor of the 7-11 will never be the same again....

[Caustic Saint]

Is it just me, but everytime I see this thread title, I think of semen...

I feel as though we've all just gotten a peek through a crack in the wall of the Powder Room...

[Ketou]

Is it just me, but everytime I see this thread title, I think of semen...

I feel as though we've all just gotten a peek through a crack in the wall of the Powder Room...

Powder? Powder? Which powder?

[ichigo partygirl]

Is it just me, but everytime I see this thread title, I think of semen...

I feel as though we've all just gotten a peek through a crack in the wall of the Powder Room...

Powder? Powder? Which powder?

It seems as part of the girls personnality which can be seen in the power room is starting to be seen out here.
Powder room - as in bathroom - as in where girls go to gossip. nothing dodgy!!!

[Caustic Saint]

Kit-kats aren't as sweet in Japan as they are in Engerland

They don't have to be when they taste this damned good:



I recently came across what may well be one of the last stashes of these beauties. Now, do I hoard them or share with friends?

[aquamarine]

Hoard in a nice air-tight container, save for years then sell them to the highest bidder on the next generation of Ebay. With that cash brought in, buy yourself a nice little island in the middle of Canada! Dub it in my name as the soverign nation of Christopia!!!

And I too noticed that things tasted quite different in Canadaland. Coke tasted less-sweet but more carbonated. Sprite... well, you just can't even FIND regular (non-diet) sprite here ANYWHERE (except in the 100-yen stores.. but they only sell the 200ml cans!).

[Big Booger]

Kit-kats aren't as sweet in Japan as they are in Engerland

They don't have to be when they taste this damned good:

I recently came across what may well be one of the last stashes of these beauties. Now, do I hoard them or share with friends?

My wife just came home with a bag of the green tea one's... and I can say they are tasty. But the lemon cake one's are about 400 times better.

[American Oyaji]

Is it just me, but everytime I see this thread title, I think of semen...

I am a sick sick girl...

No.

You're just a f*cked gaijin gal!