Conbini Boys

Conbini Boys

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Conbini Boys episodes

  • Radio Lawson

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Music requests at Lawson

    🐥 A body pillow in the form of a receipt

    🐥 A hot and cheesy karaage-kun

    🐥 Matt and Mike in sync over this weeks items

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    33 min
  • Eventually It'll All Be Sticks and Bars

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 The stick and bar evolution of salad chicken

    🐥 Tartar sauce inside of chikis

    🐥 Imaginary fruits

    🐥 Mottainai chuhais

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    41 min
  • Shrinkflation? Skimpflation?

    Back after a long break!

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Shrunken quantities and skimped qualities

    🐥 Daily Yamazaki’s great UI renewal

    🐥 The legend of Egashira 2:50

    🐥 Ever increasing “sticks” of stuff

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    48 min
  • Taking a Dip in the Oden Tank

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Oden and its mysteries

    🐥 Tomato lemonade

    🐥 Butter ramen

    🐥 Cheese and cod fish sticks

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    57 min
  • Beat the Heat with Daily Yamazaki

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Daily Yamazaki’s plan to cure natsubate

    🐥 How never to eat a Famichiki

    🐥 Pretzels

    🐥 The return of Pierre Hermes

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    45 min
  • Natsu Matsuri

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Summer Festivals (Natsu Matsuri) in Japan (and at Ministop)

    🐥 An (abnormally?) large Famichiki

    🐥 The ongoing evolution of the Pizza Chip flavor

    🐥 An unreal banana bread offering from Daily Yamazaki

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    39 min
  • Natto Apocalypse at FamilyMart

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Natto Day at FamilyMart

    🐥 Fish nuggets at Lawson

    🐥 Flavorless? Candy

    🐥 Double cheesecake at Lawson

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    44 min
  • Black Thunder!

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Black Thunder - one of Japan’s greatest chocolate snacks

    🐥 Mini-chikis?

    🐥 A rare dual winner/loser out of Daily Yamazaki

    🐥 Yet another extraordinary dessert from Lawson

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    43 min
  • Welcoming Summer in Okinawa

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Ministop’s Ode to Okinawa Campaign

    🐥 Karapeño Nanachiki from 7-11

    🐥 Nagano Grape Ice Cream from Ministop

    🐥 A Very Weird Corn Bread from FamilyMart

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    43 min
  • The Legend of the Conbini Boys: Tears of the Chiki

    In this week’s episode we discuss:

    🐥 Lawson’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom campaign

    🐥 The most chikis we’ve ever seen in one week

    🐥 Ever increasing abstractions of pizza

    🐥 Regulating your body temperature with inarizushi and zarusoba

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    46 min

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Mike and Matt dive into their passion - Japan’s convenience stores, known as conbini. From canned coffee to fried chicken to seasonal one-offs, we’ll be hitting you with the biggest news across the…