My co-worker went to Mitsuwa in New Jersey this weekend and brought back some treats for the office. I got a can of Meiji Yan Yan Choco Cream Snacks. The snacks come in a small can filled with shortbread sticks which you’re supposed to dip in chocolate. The chocolate is in a reservoir also in the can, so the package is like the Japanese offspring of Pringles and Cheese-N-Crackers minus the plastic red stick used to spread the cheese…

Anyway, the best part of these snacks are the messages on each of the sticks. The first part is a little cartoon and the name of an animal (Whale! Seal! Mouse!) followed by a little known fact about that animal. Who knew that the Whale is the biggesy mammal or that seals love to sun tan? They’re all pretty good except for the blatantly lame Star+Fish. Would it have been so difficult to just say “Regrows Limbs”?