Japanese convenience stores
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Following Japan’s “paper tiger sandwich” incident, we went out and bought every sandwich we could find to investigate.
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.
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