Your combini's favorite

[Kustom]

My old roommate couldn't stop thinking about a story one of his students told him once:
"I'm crazy. Every day, I go to the convenience store, and I buy something. Every-single-day, I buy the very same thing. Until I get tired of it, and then I can't have it anymore, ever... So I start buying something else. Every single day. Until I get tired..." The man was looking at him with feverish intensity.

Now I know that myself and many of my gaijin friends react in exactly the same way. The combini syndrome. I go to my local convenience store, every single day, and I buy the same thing, all the time... Until I get tired, or for some mysterious reason I cannot fathom the combini stops selling it.

What about you? What's your poison?

I went through the entire sweets section in AmPm before, but right now, I'm hooked on シュークリーム (chou a la creme), preferably with chocolate filling. I absolutely need it for my daily sugar rush. As I'm writing this, I'm starting to really crave for one. Gotta go!

[nice gaijin]

明太子おにぎり for me :)

too bad I can't get any on this side of the stinking planet without making it myself. harumph.

[PopCulturePooka]

My hugest obsessions, leading to a degree of infamy at my gaijin house and Nova branch included.

Man. Nikuman or pizzaman. Every... single... fudging... day. The clerks at the konbini near my Nova actually asked me every visit if I wanted them after a while. Didn't have to ask.

Tuna Onigiri.

At lawsons these pastry scroll things. Like a falt circular croissant with white icing on top. Choice.

Also at lawsons, their pasta with chicken, chilli bits and olive oil. Best konbini meal EVER!

[hanacker]

I like purin but I didn't eat it that often.

[bloop]

明太子おにぎり for me :)


That was mine too. If not breakfast, then dinner. Sometimes both.

[Dana]

My favorite a couple months ago that i have since burned myself out on was Melon Bread (especially with the choco chips in). Then I moved onto coconut Pocky. Now I am obsessing about cheese karaage. Speaking of which, I might go and get some when it stops raining!

[Vengro]

When I was staying in 東京 over the past spring, I ate メロンパン every single day for breakfast. I had this obsession before I came to 日本, but it grew to horrible proportions during my stay. Not only did I get it every morning for breakfast, but sometimes my friends would buy me more later in the day from the コンビニ across the street from my school. If I was traveling with my friends anywhere and we stopped at a コンビニ and they had メロンパン and it was a flavor I had never eaten before (there are so many varieties of this thing, it's amazing) I would be under obligation to try it.

And yet...I still am not tired of it! The first thing I bought upon returning to LA was more メロンパン. I am crazy.

As for my コンビニ food...さけおにぎり。I bought it from the Family Mart across the street from my school pretty much every day. Then I got sick of it and moved on to いなりずし。Over Golden Week, I found a コンビニ in 新いまみや that sold this mixture of salmon and tuna おにぎり and once I realized they sold it at pretty much every Family Mart, that was my new love. That and those こわい (?) milk coffee drinks that come in the cup with the lid. Ooooooh, I miss those so much.

[novacane]

My favorite is nikuman.