{"id":39385,"date":"2016-03-07T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=39385"},"modified":"2018-03-29T00:33:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T04:33:28","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-afternoon-tea-x-glicos-sweet-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/07\/ill-make-it-myself-afternoon-tea-x-glicos-sweet-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Make It Myself!: Afternoon Tea x Glico\u2019s \u201cSweet Love Story\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.M. (CIR\u00a0Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Ze works in international student exchange;<\/em>\u00a0writes\u00a0<\/em>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan and the US; curates\u00a0The\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/a>Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan; and admins\u00a0The JET Alumni Culinary Group<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on LinkedIn.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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Via @eerrkkyy<\/a>. Images of Aya, the Pocky character, in a yellow dress and her lips puckered up, lined up with the women characters from the Afternoon Tea bottles, thus appearing to kiss them.<\/p><\/div>\n

On Feb. 16, 2016, Kirin\u2019s Afternoon Tea brand and Glico\u2019s candy Pocky released their second design\/pairing collaboration with Pocky\u2019s \u201cLemon Love\u201d (\u604b\u306e\u30ec\u30e2\u30f3) and Afternoon Tea\u2019s \u201cTeagurt\u201d (yogurt + tea) (\u30c6\u30a3\u30fc\u30b0\u30eb\u30c8). Eaten together, the candy and the tea are supposed to taste like rare cheesecake (\u30ec\u30a2\u30c1\u30fc\u30ba\u30b1\u30fc\u30ad) a Japanese style of cheesecake that isn\u2019t baked but is stabilized by the addition of gelatin.<\/a> The package design is also a collaboration: the Pocky boxes feature a woman (Aya) in a yellow dress on one set and a man (Tsubasa) in a yellow vest on the other. Aya and Tsubasa are positioned on the left side of their respective Pocky boxes so you can pair them with the 6 different characters featured on the right side on the drink bottle. There are three men and three women characters on the drink bottles, with one woman character and one man character on opposite sides of the same bottle, so you can turn the bottle to have the character of your choice to face the character on your Pocky box.<\/p>\n

At first glance, it looks like Glico and Kirin have created something inclusive, and it\u2019s really, really adorable.<\/p>\n

At least until you start reading the copy.<\/p>\n

Click HERE to read MORE.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L.M. (CIR\u00a0Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of\u00a0The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight.\u00a0Ze works in international student exchange;\u00a0writes\u00a0I\u2019ll Make It Myself!,\u00a0a blog about food culture in Japan and the US; curates\u00a0The\u00a0Rice Cooker Chronicles, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,70,396,6],"tags":[1354,1358,134,911,1356,1355,1360,1314,1353,1359,1357],"class_list":["post-39385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-writers","tag-afternoon-tea","tag-1358","tag-food","tag-gender","tag-glico","tag-kirin","tag-lgbtq","tag-pocky","tag-sweet-love-story","tag-teagurt","tag-1357"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t