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Why did the crazy-expensive version of Japan’s super-cheap corn snack sell out? We ask the artist

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For the price of the 100,000-yen modern art Umaibo you could get over 6,600 of the regular puffed corn snacks, and whether its buyers will display or eat their new snacks remains to be seen. We all have those beloved snacks from our childhood, and in Japan Umaibo is just as popular as Lunchables, Wagon Wheels, or Tim Tams are in their corners of the world. A simple puffed corn snack, it comes in an easy-to-hold tube shape and more than 15 differ…
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Why did the crazy-expensive version of Japan’s super-cheap corn snack sell out? We ask the artist

For the price of the 100,000-yen modern art Umaibo you could get over 6,600 of the regular puffed corn snacks, and whether its buyers will display or eat their new snacks remains to be seen. We all have those beloved snacks from our childhood, and in Japan Umaibo is just as popular as Lunchables, Wagon Wheels, or Tim Tams are in their corners of the world. A simple puffed corn snack, it comes in an easy-to-hold tube shape and more than 15 differ…

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