Lunch Pack: Sourthern Land Polar Bear Ice Cream

Lunch Pack Collection:
Southern Land Polar Bear Ice Cream.

Contains diced pineapple, yellow peach and azuki-beans (sweet red beans).
The cream tasted like thin condensed milk.

南国白くま(Nangoku Shirokuma/Southern Land Polar Bear) is a famous ice cream originally from Kagoshima prefecture in Kyushu area.

The original one was introduced back in around Showa 7~8, which is 1932~1933, by a cotton shop started selling shaved ice as a side job.

As a new menu, they put condensed milk over the shaved ice and were thinking what to name it.

The can of condensed milk had a image of polar bear so they named it as Southern Land Polar Bear.

(There're several theories.)