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Brian Ronin's avatar

Always got a good laugh out of this as a 20-year old kid visiting Japan for the first time in the early 90s. Vending machines - with beer?! And what’s this … Calpis? You go first!

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Thomas Love Seagull's avatar

I never thought it sounded like "cow piss" until after I learned it was rebranded Calpico overseas. The taste on the other hand...

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Jake Adelstein's avatar

Wait—you’re not a fan of the delicious taste of Calpico?

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Steve Hesse's avatar

Perhaps in competition as a sports drink moniker with Pocari Sweat?

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Jake Adelstein's avatar

Of all Japan’s Sports Drinks, Pocari Sweat is probably still my favorite.

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Francis Turner's avatar

Just FYI there is a nigori sake that deliberately cultivates the Calpis taste.

カルシス/Calushisu from 久米桜酒造 (Kumezakura shuzo) in Hoki, Tottori. Not that far from the Sakaiminato and the Mizuki Shigeru museum you just wrote about....

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Jos T's avatar

Jake Adelstein, so our term for our own galaxy’s appearance in our night sky, Milky Way, is used by Japanese people and with a direct translation of the term “milky”? Thank you.

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