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Sometimes a chocolate is not chocolate

Pucca Banana Choco Flavor
Crispy and Creamy
With Banana Flavor
Chocolate Sweets

I'm thinking that the people at Meiji have an entirely different concept of chocolate from the rest of us. For a fake banana flavor snack, this is pretty good, but there is no chocolate. Truly, as much as it looks like that cookie shell is all chocolatey goodness, it is not.

Based on past experience, I knew this would likely be the case when I bought these Banana Choco, but it needed to be said.

Oz wouldn't even try them. "Yuck. Fake banana flavor is even worse than fake watermelon flavor."

"I beg to differ. Fake watermelon flavor is way worse." In fact, these have a nice banana flavor and don't give you indigestion, which is the main problem I have with fake banana.

My only real objection to these snacks, apart from the lies, is the unfortunate graphic design of the banana at the top of the box. I am not a girl with naughty bits on the brain and pretty much all the time a banana is just a banana. But this banana? Is not.

And another thing, you'd think that photographing a cookie box would be a snap compared to photographing big buildings and faded signs. You'd be wrong. I had to mess with the tripod, aperture settings, backdrops, slanty floors, and odd lighting. It would have been easier if there were even one place in the house where I had a true horizontal surface to work from, but 130-year-old houses don't have those. I took 24 shots of this silly box. Still that's only a fraction of what the real photographer shot when we had the circuit boards photographed back during my engineering internship, and she had a studio with a fancy lighting system. I'm rather glad I don't. All the flashes during that session about gave me epilepsy.