7-Eleven
We buy stacks of the new limited-edition sweet souvenir to see if we can snare all six cute Pikachu designs.
Following Japan’s “paper tiger sandwich” incident, we went out and bought every sandwich we could find to investigate.
Comparing the big three Japanese convenience stores’ versions of the country’s number-one sweet bread.
7-Eleven, Lawson, and Family Mart all have their own exclusive instant noodles, and we were surprised by who makes some of them.
It looks like a breakfast at a fancy ryokan inn, but all this food came from a humble 7-Eleven and cost about 10 bucks.
These kicks pay homage to everything from the humble convenience store through to Netflix and even the old-school iMac G3.
Is this 7-Eleven just being run by a loose cannon, or is it a sign of bigger problems ahead?
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