popular items

I think the most popular item of convenience stores in this season is oden.Oden is a dish in which a variety of ingredients such as tofu, eggs, white radish, fried fish paste, and potatoes are boiled together in a large pot of seasoned fish broth. Hot mustard and miso is served as a condiment.

Popular Ingredient Ranking(2010.11.24)
1.white radish
2.hard-boiled egg
3.whitish strings of konnyaku(devil's tongue)
4.beef gristle

5.a block of deep-fried bean curd

chibita's oden

Others, several exceptional type of oden are sold by some convenience stores. Lawson sells japanese omelette and udon. FamilyMart sells sausage and cheese in mochikinchaku which is pounded rice cake wrapped in a tofu pouch. And CircleK sunkus sells chibita's oden which is composed by konnnyaku(triangle), quail egg in boiled fish paste(round) and tubular roll of boiled [grilled] fish paste(square). The oden materializes ◁○□-(triangle-round-square). (This is representative of oden.)
Seven Eleven has 47 kinds, Lawson has 54 kinds and FamilyMart has 51 kinds oden.

By the way, there are other popular items in each convenience store. Mini Stop is popular because of soft ice cream and topvalu. Lawson is popular because of karaagekun and sweets. FamilyMart is popular because of sweets, famichiki and article sold without a brand name. Seven Eleven is popular because of sevenpremium.