A new month is here, and the hardworking staff of J-List has created another amazing DX J-List Box snack box. I’m going to go over all of the items you get so you can know ahead of time. As before, these boxes are pre-built and once we sell out, no more can be sold that month. You should order this box right now!
Here’s the layout of all the items you get for the June 2017 J-List DX Snack Box. (We also have a less expensive snack box, a fun seasonal/toybox, plus are always-popular “ecchi” J-List Box — see them all here.) You get 16 wonderful items to sample this month.
First up, the staff has selected Toro Maro lime flavored marshmallows. Toro means “melt” as in “melt in your mouth.”
Next you get a fun container of “pucchi ramune candies” which are delicious to eat. Even more fun, after you’re done eating the candies, the case becomes a little flute that you can play.
This is fun: uranai (fortune telling) gum, basically sticks of bubblegum with different fortunes printed on them. Will you have good luck? Bad luck? Will you find the love of your life this week? It’s all printed on the gum.
I love Pretz, the big pretzel sticks by Meiji. This flavor is Mentaiko, slightly spicy and very yummy. It’s a famous food from Kyushu.
One thing that surprising, our customers absolutely love saki-ika, which is dried squid jerky. We’ve been selling it for years, and we can’t keep it in stock. Here’s some delicious Mentaiko flavored squid to munch on with your beer.
This is without a doubt my favorite of the items in this month’s box. They are basically “mocci” candy, very chewy and very flavorful. The flavors are green apple, lemon, strawberry, and orange. Since these candies have been around since the postwar era, very good example of “dagashi” (the traditional candy of the Showa Period).
Tsubu Gummi, essentailly balls of yummy gummi material, known as Jelly Beans in another era. These are flavored like soft drinks, grape soda, cola, lemon soda, and our favorite, Ramune.
You may have heard that Japan had a crisis of potatoes this year. Potato chips have been very rare and hard to get, although I guess the problem is being managed, because you get these potato chips in your box.
Another snack that I love a lot, these are called Ottotto (おっとっと）, which is the sound you make while carefully pouring beer for someone. Unrelated to that, these are little crackers shaped like sea creatures. I could eat them all day long.
If you want to be healthier, why not have this wonderful protein bar, by a company called Weider. That doesn’t sound like a Japanese company, I wonder if it’s a German one? Anyway, these protein bars are very popular in Japan.
These are wonderful “Japanese” snacks — I put that in quotes, because Lotte is actually a Korean company, and every once in a while a Korean will hassle me about calling our products “Japanese” when there may by Lotte. The truth is, Lotte was founded in Japan by zainichi Korean (who was born and raised in Japan, yet kept a separate identity for cultural purposes), and moved to Seoul after Japan and South Korea normalized relations. So it is kind of a “Japanese” treat…
Mmm, soft chocolate baked cookies. I wish I were eating these right now.
Another fun snack item, this is a “Horror Mask” that you can put over your face and scare people with. You also get delicious ramune candy inside.
Finally, you get some wonderful Sushi Lollipops which are exactly what they sound like, candy sushi on a stick. I bet you didn’t know you needed that in your life.
Next up, wonderful caramels from Morinaga, in delicious plum flavor. The founder of this company was Taichiro Morinaga, who traveled to San Francisco to learn how to make chocolate and other candies.
Finally, you get delicious jelly (to any Americans reading, this means Jell-o or geletin) flavored with umeshu, which is plum wine.
Finally, you get a handy card explaining what everything is in your J-List Box. Plus you get $5 off your next purchase! So the $29 for all those amazing snacks is only $24.
Well, thanks for reading my overview of the J-List Box DX Snack Box for June, 2017. I’m now thoroughly hungry, and if you have read this far, you are probably hungry too. Why not order a box, before they sell out?
