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Botan Rice Candy Stickers
The Definitive Botan Rice Candy Sticker
May 4th
Today I randomly came upon Botan Rice Candy at Sunrise Mart, and so I had to buy a box. It turned out to contain what just might be the best-ever Botan sticker. Ever!
Let us take a moment to reflect on what makes this sticker so perfect. Weird anthropomorphic animal: check. Almost-normal-but-really-quite-baffling activity: double check. This bunny (who does not seem to be related to the ice cream-vendor bunny who showed up on the last Botan sticker I got) is using a computer, and giant doughnuts and candy are spewing out of the screen. What’s going on here? Is the bunny ordering doughnuts and candy online, or just enjoying some food porn? We don’t know. But the bunny is clearly DELIGHTED by the activity. Now that I think about it, maybe the sweets are meant to be a metaphor for how personal computer use is addictive and fun and terrible for you. Poor bunny has a problem.
It seems that I’m not the only person who enjoys obsessing over the stickers that come with Botan Rice Candy. I got an email the other day from someone who has a blog dedicated to them called The BRC Gallery. Go Internet!
Awesomely Strange Botan Rice Candy Sticker
Jan 12th
A couple months ago I picked up a box of Botan Rice Candy. It did not disappoint in the sticker department!
It appears to be a bunny selling ice cream behind a counter. I get that the pink thing on its head is part of the (red?) uniform of an ice cream seller, but what’s the white thing under it—bangs? The fluffy tail of another, smaller bunny hiding under the ice cream seller bunny’s hat?
Botan Rice Candy stickers always seem to raise more questions than they answer.
Perfectly Acceptable Botan Rice Candy Sticker
Aug 13th
It’s a yellow ninja!
Purchased from Jas Mart on St. Mark’s Street in NY. (The candy was also exceptionally soft.)
Not at all Disappointing Botan Rice Candy Stickers
May 11th
Finally, some classic stickers from the Botan Rice Candy people.
At once ugly, generic, and timeless. Perfect!
From Sunrise Mart on Broome, NYC.
Only Somewhat Disappointing Botan Rice Candy Stickers
Apr 8th
You might remember that the last few stickers I got with purchase of Botan Rice Candy were extremely disappointing. In spite of that negative experience, I was feeling lucky during a recent trip to Pearl River Mart, so I picked up a few more boxes.
The doggie chasing a soccer ball is certainly an improvement over the illustrated comic book sound effects that I got last time, but a DUPLICATE poolside penguin? Such a repeat is a Botan first for me. Also, although his eyewear is obviously meant to be swimming goggles, it reminds me too much of sunglasses, and sunglasses on animals is never cute. (Now I will get letters, I know.)
Overall, a mediocre sticker experience this time. But the candy was soft and delicious.
