Baskin Robbins’ new year lucky bags are Snoopy-tastic! (Also, free ice cream!)
evie lund
We’ve been bringing you all the the details on the year’s best fukubukuro – or “lucky bags” – today, but no roundup of these wonderful New Year’s goodie bags would be complete without a visit to ice cream purveyor Baskin Robbins Japan. Let’s find out what frozen delights were hidden in their bag!
Baskin Robbins, known simply as 31 (Saatii wan) in Japan, is extremely popular among Japan’s ice cream aficionados. Not only do they offer a wide range of flavours, but they’re always running some kind of interesting deal or promotion, so we had high hopes for their New Year Lucky Bag! What tantalising treats could be lurking within? Our Japanese correspondent Debuneko went to find out!
Priced at a reasonable 2,000 yen, we heard rumours that each of 31’s Lucky Bags comes with either a special Snoopy bento box or a “leisure sheet” which is sort of a thin plastic sheet (great for impromptu picnics!).
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