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yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts) Tue Jan 30, 2018, 08:28 PM Jan 2018

Funny chocolate commercial

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Funny chocolate commercial (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jan 2018 OP

Are you a serious chocolate lover, Yui? Old Crow Jan 2018 #1

actually no yuiyoshida Jan 2018 #2

No chocolate for you, then! :) Old Crow Jan 2018 #3

haha, here ya go. yuiyoshida Jan 2018 #4

LOL! What a rich and bizarre tapestry it is, the transference of cultures. Old Crow Jan 2018 #5

I lolled! ;-) JuJuYoshida Jan 2018 #6

Old Crow

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1. Are you a serious chocolate lover, Yui?

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Wed Jan 31, 2018, 02:46 PM

Jan 2018

I'm wondering now when chocolate was introduced to Japan and how long it took for it to become popular. I haven't looked into it yet, but I think the big picture of chocolate goes: Mexico/South America --> Europe --> Asia. I think?

yuiyoshida

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2. actually no

Reply to Old Crow (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 31, 2018, 03:08 PM

Jan 2018

it makes me irritable when i have milk chocolate. I prefer Caramel, it doesn't bother me and tastes far more yummy to me.

Old Crow

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3. No chocolate for you, then! :)

Reply to yuiyoshida (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 31, 2018, 04:10 PM

Jan 2018

I only recently started appreciating caramel. A friend convinced me to get it on a sundae made of butter pecan ice cream and it was heaven.

Incidentally, according to what I'm seeing online, chocolate didn't become popular in Japan until the American occupation, when GI's would share their chocolate with Japanese children. Apparently, one of the first well-known English phrases among Japanese children was, "Give me chocolate!"