Monday, December 31, 2012  Tirol Egg Tart Chocolates  While I
was walking around a supermarket on December 26th, the day of
after Christmas sales, a woman could not get over the fact that
Valentine's cards were already on display. Though it does seem a
little fast, like they haven't cleared away the corpse of one
holiday before putting the warm body of the next in its place,
it isn't too terribly shocking. After all, it is next up on the
rotation of heavily commercially exploitable holidays in the
U.S.  After a visit to this thoroughly normal market, I went on
to Nijiya Japanese market to see if they had anything exciting
available and came across a bag of Tirol egg tart chocolates. I
was surprised to see them because I had recently researched
Tirol's current line-up and this particular option was nowhere
to be found. Since it was only $2.49 (212 yen) and I do love
real egg tarts, I picked it up without looking too carefully at
the packaging.  After getting it home and inspecting it more
carefully, I noticed