February 04, 2009

Hello, Panda

The other day when I was visiting the Asian food store to replenish my supply of Pocky, I saw something else that looked interesting. It was being sold in single-serving boxes and in 10-packs, so I bought a single-serving box of each of the two flavors. They're little filled cookies, and the brand name is "Hello, Panda":

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I was out again today and decided to drop by the store and buy more of them, and this time I got the 10-packs, as you can see. They're quite tasty and make a good snack.

What I don't understand is why Sanrio hasn't taken off after this lot with spiked baseball bats and lawyers. According to the package, it's from Singapore and maybe the trademark laws are different there.

The company making it is "Meiji Seika (S) Pte. Ltd." and it may be the only manufacturing company in the free world at this point which doesn't have a corporate web site.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 09:16 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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1 It is tasty, though... The Librarian and I both agree.

Posted by: Wonderduck at February 04, 2009 09:38 PM (sh9fy)

2 Fail.

http://www.meiji.com.sg/

Posted by: jcmiller at February 04, 2009 09:51 PM (IvEAM)

3 Actually, considering the existence of http://www.meiji.co.jp/ the question of Sanrio remains. Unless they are from the same zaibatsu.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at February 04, 2009 09:52 PM (/ppBw)

4 I was always partial to the Koala's March cookies. Same idea, different mascot that doesn't infringe on Sanrio. ;p

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at February 04, 2009 10:28 PM (pWQz4)

5

According to this, it's a subsidiary of the Japanese company.

But it doesn't look as if they have put the official corporation name (as printed on the box) anywhere on the web site, which is why my google search came up empty.

(JCMiller, I don't suppose you could have been a bit less rude about that, could you?)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 05, 2009 12:33 AM (+rSRq)

6 Apologies.  As I should have been able to foresee, what was intended as irreverence came across as rudeness.

Posted by: jcmiller at February 05, 2009 01:01 AM (IvEAM)

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