Today, thanks to my supervisor's guilt regarding my recent injury (she was in a meeting when I called her soon after it happened), I was allowed to go home early. This may come as a surprise, but I didn't use the time to eat and reflect on the two varieties of Chopan I had chosen for this week's Candy Friday. Instead, I played Animal Crossing. And decided I would bring the candy along with me to Nagoya, where I had dinner plans with my friends Liz and Martha, and see what they had to say about it.

We were all excited about the dark chocolate/passionfruit/red pepper Chopan and hesitant about the white chocolate/raisin/cereal, which looked disconcertingly like tiny bowls of granola and milk.

Liz and Martha, the Chopan and BooBee bar.

Some thoughts, as we ate the chocolate on the train platform en route to dinner:

Martha on the white chocolate Chopan: "This tastes like that shit in Quaker Oat bars."

Liz on the dark chocolate Chopan: "The cookie is really flaky. But not in a good way. It's kind of...crusty."

We all preferred the cereal chocolate, which had a sort of orange flavor, making it really taste like a breakfast treat. The red pepper was barely discernible in the dark chocolate Chopan, which was a disappointment. But the real winner of the night was the awesome Thai restaurant we went to, which has the best Thai food I've eaten in Japan and is located conveniently close to a bar called BooBee. Sorry, Chopan, you just can't compete.