Tube food

A wander through any grocery store in Japan will quickly persuade you that putting something in a tube shouldn’t be confined to toothpaste, hand cream, and athlete’s foot cures. Plenty of foods are best served squeezed!

If you subscribe to Japanagram (my free deeper dive into all things only-in-Japan), you’ll already have drooled over the one product that should never be sold any other way:

Sweetened condensed milk

But that’s not the only thing Japanese food scientists have wrangled into squeezable (and resealable!) packets.

Foods that should never be sold any other way

Peanut butter

Cheese spread

Butter

But food in tubes isn’t limited to those things that are a nuisance dispensed any other way. What about…

Foods you’d eat a lot more often if they were this convenient

Garlic toast

Tuna sandwiches

Buttered toast with strawberry jelly (or, for a true breakfast of champions, chocolate)

Then, of course, just to remind you we’re not in Kansas anymore…

Only-in-Japan tube food

Melon toast

Corn mayo toast

Shrimp toast

Teriyaki mayo toast

And that perennial favorite:

Cod roe toast

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Jonelle Patrick writes novels set in Japan, produces the monthly e-magazine Japanagram, and blogs at Only In Japan and The Tokyo Guide I Wish I’d Had