After all the parties and drinking over the weekend, last night we gave our livers a break and had just soda water and juice. Dinner was a very healthy dish – cold udon noodles topped with kamaboko and green onions, and I had a small bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch for dessert.
Cinnamon Toast Crunch? Where did you find that in Japan, Bryan? Junky cereals that remind me of my childhood are definitely hard to come by in Japan. I’ve found some mail order companies that will sell them to you for 2000 yen a box. That’s $25 US dollars for one box of sweetened oats. Until recently I refrained from buying from them – the allure wasn’t quite strong enough to fork over the big bucks.
Last week I was talking with one of the inspectors at work. He’s ex-military, and he told me that he often goes to the commissary at Iwakuni military base to do shopping, and sure – he could pick me up some cereal. I gave him a list of four cereals that I was looking for, and yesterday he delivered three of them to me.
I asked for and received two boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, one of Captain Crunch, and one Peanut Butter Captain Crunch. Unfortunately they didn’t carry Golden Grahams. He joked that perhaps the Marine Corp didn’t consider Golden Grahams to be quite manly enough for them. But I didn’t care – I got three of my old favorites – four boxes for ten US dollars.
So this week I’ll be working on sweetened cereal in the morning, and try not to think about what this stuff is doing to my intestines…
