The first entry from my Jlist order!

This is a soft yogurt chewing candy, a lot like Hi-Chew (Morinaga), but with little gummy bits in each piece. Having never tried Puccho before, I thought strawberry would be a “safe” place to start; at the time of my order, Jlist also had ramune and apple cider flavours in stock. There are actually three textures going on in these. We’ve got a soft base with tiny chewy bits (so that’s two), but then there’s another layer of slightly tougher chewy stuff in the middle. It worried me at first; I thought I had started eating part of the wrapper, but it turned out to be consistent throughout the package.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Japanese candy package that I didn’t love. The individual foil wrappers also happen to have little cartoons printed on them. Colour me uncertain, because I may just be anthropomorphising (as we humans do), but is that supposed to be a little …guy  in the upper right corner? I totally can’t decide if that’s intentional or not. He’s got arms? Yes? **

I ate a couple of these last night, and totally demolished the rest of this package this morning.

Fast turnaround. That’s usually the case around here.

I’m a big fan of soft candy in general, but I still think I prefer Hi-Chew, assuming we’re comparing strawberry to strawberry, y’know? I would definitely be interested in trying other flavors of Puccho.

** Quick edit. I poked at Puccho’s website and it does look like that’s the idea! Check them out here. Each flavour seems to have a different mascot! Also note the slightly creepy pop band tie in. Yikes. Not that we’re much “better” about that sort of thing here in the states…