However hard I've been training my palate to enjoy distinctively Japanese tastes, I still do not get Japanese sweets of the well-packaged kind which are available for sale at every station and tourist site in the country. These particular bean-based, jellyish delicacies came from Kyushu and had a slight date-iness to them, but when I say slight I really mean slight because such sweets take blandness to a new degree for this untutored/uncultured palate. So much so that I wonder if people even eat these things in Japan or whether they are simply ceremonially handed over as gifts and then rather less ceremonially dumped in the bin. Must work harder on probing the subtleties of the bland I think.
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