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Fantabulous site!
Ah yes....Calpis Water, a lovely mild yogurt drink that is dynamite on a hot day. "Try Happy," yes, that's appropriate. (I believe it is called Calpico in the States because Calpis sounds like "cow-piss" and no one over here wants to drink something with a name like that!) I actually used to drink Calpis water when I was a younger lad in the 70's. It went good with anime.
For a very brief time in 1989 I was in Japan on a job, and got to see some of the truly bizarre drinks they have out there...there was something known as "muscat soda" which we called "muskrat soda," and it had an entire LOVE POEM printed on the front of the can in strange, off-center English. (A "muscat love" poem?) Something about lying on the beach and awaiting love's return and my mind drifts with the ocean waves. Nothing about this poem had anything to do with soda, any soda!
We also saw many wonderful things in vending machines on the street and in shopping malls. Among them, adult magazines and bottles of vodka. I mean full-on, full-size bottles of vodka!!! I never bought one but I stared at it for a long time because the sight was just so unreal.
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