Enjoy white peach gummies, whole grain biscuit Kit Kats, and a bag of mala spice Calbee Grill-A-Corn while watching your favorite athletes go for the gold
that sought to set the mood for the games. And in a way, it has. A smaller Parade of Nations marched in front of empty stands, and a moment of silence acknowledged those lost in the past year . The bumpy path to Tokyo 2020 has highlighted long-standing issues with the Olympics that often get lost among the stories of athletic prowess. For every athlete beating the odds to reach the games, there is another who had their body policed, or was denied the access and support they rely on to compete.
My father ran track and field in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, so I learned to love the mythology of the games before I learned almost anything else. Even as I approach this year’s Olympics with a hair less wide-eyed awe, I still can’t help but admire the lifelong path that brings athletes to the games: Years of training and sacrifice for a single moment in front of an audience of the entire world.
But this year in Tokyo, the stands are mostly empty, and I’m looking for another way to support these amazing competitors. As the author of a, I logically turned to snacks for the answer. Snacking is a fitting homage to Tokyo, the capital of a nation whose own snack culture is all-encompassing. Picking just one Japanese snack is as overwhelming as deciphering the NBC Olympics broadcast schedule. The best approach, I find, is trying as many as possible.
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