{"id":23,"date":"2007-01-30T21:24:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-cubed.info\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-01-30T21:24:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T12:24:34","slug":"the-unfamiliar-face-of-the-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"The Unfamiliar Face of the Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of things are very different in Tokyo. The food is definitely one of those things. Some familiar name brands are available, such as Twinings Tea. These provide something of a comfort value in general, providing something familiar at least. It&#8217;s sometimes a bit disconcerting, though, to find unfamiliar products from familiar brands. Food manufacturers, of course, adjust their products to local tastes. Thus in Japan we not only have the traditional <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"McVities, part of the starting point of United Biscuits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvities.com\/80256C1A0047922E\/vWeb\/pcTSTT5DWHZ4\">British<\/a> McVitie&#8217;s Chocolate Digestive Biscuits, but we also have the unfamiliar &#8220;Bitter &#038; Cocoa&#8221; digestive biscuit. This is a digestive biscuit with cocoa in the biscuit mix itself and relatively bitter dark chocolate half-coating.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re quite nice, although I can see where they might not fit the UK market&#8217;s sweet tooth. The Japanese tend to go for less sweet confectionery on the whole. The downside is that they&#8217;re sold in boxes of twelve split into four packs of three. Better for my waistline I suppose, since I&#8217;m less liable to eat half the packet in one evening, but it makes them pretty expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of things are very different in Tokyo. The food is definitely one of those things. Some familiar name brands are available, such as Twinings Tea. These provide something of a comfort value in general, providing something familiar at least. It&#8217;s sometimes a bit disconcerting, though, to find unfamiliar products from familiar brands. Food manufacturers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}