Recently my wife bought some donuts at Mr. Donut, she couldn`t resist buying the pink bear donuts for the kids. I had to take a picture real fast before they were gone. Needless to say, daddy didn`t get to taste them, but that`s okay...like I need the extra calories.
Snack time in Japan or Oyatsu is around 3 o`clock in the afternoon. It is a somewhat official time for young children to have a snack after coming home from school, or nursery.
And of course that is when the bakeries, snack shops, and other places open the windows to entice the children with fresh baked goodies.
But if you want to guarantee a sale, make sure your snacks aren`t just fresh but cute as well.
Most of time, we get the kids to have fruit for snack time as a healthy alternative. However, if you live in Japan you know that fruit is outrageously expensive. One apple will cost you about $1.20 and strawberries $5.00 a basket, and don`t even think about melon, you might have to break a $20. The cheapest available fruit is banana. Still about $1.50 a bundle.
So often we find ourselves going back to the cute treats...which in a way are the cheaper alternative...kind of...ENJOY!
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