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Cream Soda Float Pop (クリームソーダフロートポップ) — package with a few pieces of the candy in front

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Cream Soda Float Pop

クリームソーダフロートポップKurīmu Sōda Furōto Poppu

A Showa-era kissaten, on a stick.

  • melon soda
  • vanilla
  • maraschino cherry
Region
Nagoya
Season
Year-round
Shelf price
￥180
Published

Cream Soda Float Pop is a two-layer lollipop modelled on the emerald-green melon soda float served in every old-school Japanese coffee shop. The outer shell is a glassy, translucent melon-soda hard candy with a faint fizz; the inside is an opaque swirl of vanilla milk candy that turns creamy as the shell wears thin. A tiny red cherry-flavored candy bead sits on top, exactly where the maraschino would go.

It's a slow-reveal candy. For the first few minutes it's all bright, cold, artificial melon — the exact flavor of the drink, which was never about melons — and then the vanilla starts to come through, and the two together taste uncannily like the moment the ice cream starts melting into the soda.

It was made as a collaboration with a fictional chain of retro kissaten, Kissa Hoshizora, and comes on a stick printed to look like a striped paper straw.

The package

A clear cellophane wrapper with a retro cream-and-green striped band, tied at the stick with a twist of gold thread. The header card is shaped like a kissaten menu, in cream with green and red lettering: クリームソーダフロートポップ in a rounded 1970s-style display font, a small illustration of a float glass with a cherry, and the 'Kissa Hoshizora' collab mark. The stick itself is printed with red-and-white straw stripes.

The maker

A collab between Kissa Hoshizora, a fictional Nagoya-born chain of Showa-style coffee shops with velvet booths and pudding on every table, and Meijō Amedama Honpo, a Nagoya hard-candy maker. It was launched for the chain's anniversary and never taken off the menu.

Three things to know

  • Melon soda contains no melon and never has — the flavor is a mix of pineapple and banana notes under a lot of green.
  • The cherry bead is the same candy the chain puts on its real floats instead of a maraschino cherry.
  • Turning the pop so the cherry stays on top is called 'proper float manners' on the back of the header card.
Best enjoyed with
Rain on the window and a jazz record you've heard a hundred times.
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