Kintaro Candy is Cookie Cutter😁 金太郎飴はクッキーカッター😁？

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Do you know Kintaro or have you heard of Kintaro? Kintaro is a boy or popular figure from Japanese folklore. He was raised with animals by a mountain witch on Mount Ashigara. Look at Kintaro I drew below😁. He's so cute!

Kintaro 金太郎

And what's in the photo below wrapped in colorful paper is Kintaro candy. Do you want to know why it's called "Kintaro" candy? If so, look at the other two pictures and you will see why!

  

Kintaro (金太郎) candy (飴) 金太郎飴

I cut the candy with scissors ハサミで切りました

Three Kintaros on the cross section 金太郎３人

Now you can see why. Every cross section of the candy shows his cute face. Such a candy whose cross section shows always the same face (usually Kintaro's face) is called Kintaro candy.

Japanese people usually know Kintaro and Kintaro candy, and of course I've known both since my childhood, but I'd never eaten the candy, so when I found it at a store near Nezu Jinja shrine, I got it without hesitation! At home I cut it and put a piece in my mouth, finding that it tasted just sweet, no flavor or anything, but the cuteness of Kintaro and looking at his face in person every time I cut the candy made me smile😊

Kintaro is popular but there is one thing you need to know about the candy; Kintaro candy means cookie cutter...

If you wanna know how this candy, which, in the beginning, is of 35cm in diameter, 70cm long and 40-50kg, ended up like this, click HERE.

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金太郎（ナルジマ画😁）と根津神社の近くで買った金太郎飴です。初めて食べました。本当にどこまで切っても金太郎、でもカワイイ！

でもって、最初は直径３５センチ、長さ７０センチ、重さ４０～５０キロ。信じられません！

ちなみに英語では、金太郎飴のように「他のものと似たり寄ったりで個性がないこと」を「cookie cutter」というようです。勉強になりました🙇

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