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What is that?
Chocolate.
Oh, chocolate.
I love Ghana.
Oh, I see.
I think Ghana is the best chocolate out there.
Out of all the grocery store chocolates.
Okay.
You know, there's Ghana. There's this other shit, right?
Yeah.
There's two of the biggest ones, right?
Ghana and something else.
Lotte.
Lotte.
This is Ghana, right?
Yeah, this is Ghana.
Okay.
Yeah, it's Ghana.
Yeah, we used it for Kikaku and there's some left.
Yeah, we didn't have that.
Yeah.
Let's get the other one.
Ita-choco.
Meiji.
Meiji's Ita-choco.
Yeah, I love Ghana.
You love Ghana.
I love Ghana.
More than any chocolates.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's how I started hating Hershey's.
Oh.
After eating Ghana.
You felt different.
You felt you understood that.
Yeah.
When I ate Ghana, it was like, that's the moment I realized that Hershey's was a joke.
Oh.
Yeah.
But before that, you were enjoying Hershey's.
That's right.
Yeah.
I thought Hershey's was the best.
But after eating Ghana.
Yeah.
It became a joke.
Hershey's became a joke.
Okay.
I get it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How's your chocolate life?
You don't eat them like if you compare to a few years ago, like one year ago.
Yeah.
Ever since I started being healthier, I don't eat as much chocolate.
But.
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Okay.
Now I don't hold back that much.
Right.
You know why, right?
I lost a lot of weight, not knowingly, and.
You have to take balance.
I have to take balance, right?
But now I'm on a journey to be a little bit unhealthier.
Yeah.
But, you know, still.
So I don't want to go back fully.
Okay.
Right? Because I do want to keep that healthy style.
Yeah, of course.
And because there's time to adjust, right?
My body's still adjusting to it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So do you like go to like very expensive chocolates?
You know, one of those in like a department store.
Oh, yeah.
Or like chocolates.
Like these small cubed.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't, I don't, I hardly ever eat any of that.
Okay.
I actually have never bought any of those like expensive chocolates for myself ever.
I've never.
You don't like them?
I love it.
They taste awesome.
But I don't find it's the same value to me.
Like eating a piece of that like diamond shit chocolate versus like eating Ghana.
Yeah.
Like ultimately, same happiness.
Okay.
Same happiness.
They're just as good.
So I don't see why you have to pay so much for that.
Okay.
They're good.
They're great.
I love the experience.
Like you get these flavors that you never get out of these box chocolates.
Well, I mean, the box chocolates are good too, you know?
So I don't really, I'm okay with the Ghanas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
True.
Yeah.
How much is that?
Like one Ghana chocolate?
I think it's like 100 yen.
100 yen?
Maybe even cheaper, maybe like 70 or something.
It's pretty cheap.
It's way cheaper than I thought.
Yeah.
I thought it's just 200 yen.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I don't think it's 200 yen.
It's cheaper.
Yeah.
Because if you go to like Hyakka-ten department and you find like boxed six pieces.
Yeah.
Of fancy chocolates, it will be like...
2000 yen, 3000 yen.
Even like 8000 yen, no?
Like it's...
Yeah.
I mean, some, yeah, some shops may go there, but...
Yeah.
So that doesn't...
Because I'm very far from that world.
Yeah.
You'd...
Yeah.
Have you ever bought chocolates for yourself?
For myself?
Yeah.
Like...
Chocolate for myself?
Good chocolates.
Yeah.
Chocolates for yourself.
Like for you to eat.
Have you ever craved chocolate ever in your life?
Once.
No, sir.
Not at all.
Never.
In your life.
Not once.
Ever.
No, sir.
Ever.
Never.
Never.
Ever.
I've ever craved chocolate ever in your life.
Are you goddamn kidding me?
But when you were a high school student, didn't you love all these sweet shit?
I did love those sweet things, but not chocolate.
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Oh, but not chocolate?
Yeah.
What did you like?
What sugar did you like when you were a kid?
So I loved...
I loved the...
Like, you know, the jelly...
How should I describe that?
Jelly...
Konjac jelly?
Well, I love konjac jelly too.
But you're not talking about that.
No, not that one.
Um, jelly, gummy, candy-ish with a fruit flavor with a sugar coated.
Huh.
What is that?
I don't...
I don't even know what was that.
You don't remember the product name?
I don't remember the product name.
It's like...
It's like...
Is it soury?
It's sweet.
Okay.
Is it chocolatey?
No.
Okay.
It's...
I think it's fruit juice with a gelatin.
Okay.
And made it hard.
And like, like a jelly kind of gummy.
Can you buy it at a gashiyasan?
I don't think so.
Or is it more like...
You can find it...
Konbini?
Super?
Yeah, super.
Super okashi section?
Yeah.
And it says...
Kudamono no...
Kudamono no mi?
Is it?
But that's just a normal gummy.
It's...
It's like...
Ah, houseki.
Kudamono no houseki?
Houseki no...
Yes, things like that.
Kudamono no houseki?
Um, yeah.
Maybe...
How do you read this?
But it's not...
This is like Queen Isetan...
Yeah, things like this.
It's more cheaper, right?
You're talking about something that's more cheaper.
Maybe, yeah.
Like a fruit gummy that's sugar-coated.
Yeah.
Demo...
I think that one...
I remember this name, like...
Something of houseki or those.
This is...
Packed in one by one.
Oh, okay.
Like kohousou?
Yeah.
Yeah, I love that one.
You loved it when you were in high school?
Yeah.
Wow.
But now I think I just have one of them.
It's way too much.
Yeah, it's good.
It's good enough.
It's good enough.
Yeah.
But I remember I had like tons of...
Four or five?
Six or seven?
Yeah, maybe more.
10 or 12?
That's a lot.
I loved that one.
You loved it?
Oh, okay.
It was fruit taste.
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Sweet.
It's good.
Maybe I'll give it a try.
Yeah, gummy was never my thing.
Okay, here's a tricky thing is going on.
What is gummy?
Gummy wa gumi.
Nihongo de iu gumi.
That's gummy.
Yeah.
So it's very close to gummy, but way less chewy than gummy sold in anywhere.
I think I know what you're talking about.
It's, yeah, it's more like...
The texture, it's not as bouncy as a gummy, right?
It's more like you can bite into it and then it just, it rips apart.
Right, right, right.
I think I know what you're talking about.
It's more like kanten.
It's not as tsuru tsuru as the gelatin, though, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like, yeah.
I think I know what you're talking about.
I think I know what you're talking about.
So that's that.
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, I remember that one.
What else?
Sweet things.
Cookies.
You were into cookies?
What cookies did you eat during high school?
Kantorimama.
Oh, I love that.
You love Kantorimama?
Yeah.
But, um, Mr. Ito, Mr. Ito.
Oh, Mr. Chocolate Cookie.
Mr. Ito.
Okay.
Yeah, that one I remember.
Ah, very, uh...
Ah, this one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Choco Chips.
Yes.
Yeah, that one, okay.
Yeah.
Classic?
Classic, yeah.
Yeah.
Puck.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you ever eat, um, Arfoto?
Arfoto.
So...
I loved this when I was in high school.
Oh, you loved this one?
Yeah.
So I've never been very close friend with...
With him?
Arfoto.
But isn't this guy like a, like a high school classic?
Is it?
It's cheap.
Oh.
It's always like 60 yen or something when you go to like, like some random...
I didn't know that.
Cheap shit, yeah.
Yeah, I've never came across and like deeply connected with this guy.
Maybe because it was so chocolatized.
I think...
True.
Maybe you were never into chocolates, right?
Maybe, maybe.
Oh.
True.
I loved Rumando.
Wait, let me look up Rumando.
I love this too, man.
I love the crunchiness of like the layers inside.
Yeah, I love that.
It's so thin.
Yeah.
I love it. I love that too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not as chocolaty as Artifold, right?
True, true.
So...
Hmm.
True.
You were never a chocolate guy.
Yeah, I think...
I guess I've never...
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Chocolate.
So including high school and middle school, you've never bought like a good chocolate for yourself?
No, I don't think so.
Are you not interested in buying any good chocolates?
But you know, chocolate is something you...
Like people use as a present sometimes and...
Sure.
Right?
Yeah, like Valentine's and stuff, right?
Yeah, not only Valentine's, but like a just casual gift.
Yeah, sure.
Like, oh, I went to Hawaii.
Here's the chocolate.
Yeah, like people come to your house and then like temiyage kind of...
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
So I met them...
So that's your image of chocolates?
I met them at my house.
Okay.
And tried some.
But not like...
To me, that's not something I buy it for myself.
It's just...
I see.
Yeah.
You know?
Is it too strong?
Sweetness is too strong?
It's like...
Yeah, I guess it's sweetness is...
It's like...
When you have like box of chocolate...
Okay.
And you have, let's say, like 20 pieces inside.
It's just too much for me.
You can finish one box.
Okay.
So like, to me, it's like...
How am I going to finish all this chocolate?
Yeah.
I have image of chocolate left in my house.
Okay, okay.
So that's why I think...
You're just incapable of consuming a lot of chocolate.
Like your body doesn't accept that much taste.
Do you finish like 20 pieces?
I don't, but I can.
Oh, you can?
Yeah.
Then I think I'm just too...
Incapable.
Incapable of finishing like 20 small chocolates.
It's just kind of...
I don't know.
It's just too much.
Like it feels really...
You feel really like...
Stomach feels weird.
Yeah.
Don't know.
Feel sick.
Yeah.
Just kind of being tired of the taste, I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Nothing happened to my body.
Doesn't like headache or something like that.
But it's just...
No, it's good.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whereas the, you know, Numando, for example.
Yeah.
I can finish a whole pack.
Or Mr. Eat, I can finish a whole pack.
So that's like...
That's why I kind of...
Wow.
You can finish a whole pack of Numando?
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, that's different.
I can't finish a whole pack of Numando.
Oh.
Why?
Well, I mean, if I were forced to do it, I can, but like...
Never desirably do it.
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Oh.
Just as much...
Okay. Same reason as I would never eat a whole pack of chocolate, right?
Like if I were forced to do it, I can.
Yeah.
My desired, it's just, yeah, it's just...
It would exceed this level of like acceptable amount of chocolate.
Just too much.
Too much of anything is just...
Yeah.
You start to feel sick, right?
That's same reason.
Okay.
So I don't know why, but I've never been deeply in the chocolate world.
I just took some bites, of course.
And you're like, okay, cool.
Yeah.
Cool.
Good.
Good.
Like, great.
Yeah.
Great.
Chocolates.
Yeah.
I taste chocolate.
Great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I guess you were just never into it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, take every chocolate.
I will. I will.
Yeah.
I'm sure you two aren't going to eat chocolates, so I guess I'll eat them by a piece by piece every day.
Yeah.
Thank you.
And you'll be healthier.
I'll be healthier.
Ultimately, I'll be healthier.
I will.
Thank you.
That's good.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
