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We unravel the true nature of the mysterious new flavor of Konnyaku Batake jelly that has our brains and our tongues in a twist.
Customisation hack will have you drinking a green tea caramel s’more, only for a limited time.
We’ll take any excuse to drink shakes, but was this new temptation, over a century in the making, worth the wait?
Both these limited-edition Japan releases contain new ingredients used for the first time ever in the history of the company.
What happens when you put a can of condensed milk (can and all) into a pressure cooker? You make a can of delectable nama (raw) caramel, that’s what!
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