Dango – だんご3兄弟
Posted on 01. May, 2008 @ 10:41 am by harvey in Crazy Consumers, Food
Mmm…. Dango.
Three individually flavored balls of sweetness.

There was a Dango 3 Kyoudai (The 3 brothers Dango) song made popular years ago in Japan. Thanks to the wonders of youtube, you can enjoy it over and over again today!
Check out the Dango 3 Kyoudai video on YouTube.
Also, if you are into cute school supplies, you can get a dango shaped eraser set from The Japan Shop.
You know. I just noticed that even the eraser set has the dango in order, pink, white, green. It just occured to me that all dango with these flavors all over Japan are ordered the exact same way… I wonder how that got started…
- Harvey
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Alex
May 1st, 2008
at 13:28
花より団子だね。
Joe
May 1st, 2008
at 21:47
Dango sankyodai actually ticked off a lot of dango makers, because a normal dango has four balls on it, and a lot of kids complained because they weren’t “real” dango.
harvey
May 1st, 2008
at 22:28
Hahah, that’s hilarious! Now that you mention it I do remember seeing a lot of four dango in the past. Funny funny.
Even funnier is that a spoof of Dango 3 kyoudai was released called dango 4 kyoudai!
Leave it to youtube. You can hear it here.
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=wZTAiz_IBXA
ほんとうは団子は4兄弟!♩
Joe
May 1st, 2008
at 23:01
ぼくはくま、くま、くま、くま。
くるまじゃないよ。くま、くま。
harvey
May 1st, 2008
at 23:24
Are you talking about that cheesy ultra-cute song by Aiko or something?
What does that have to do with anything!? The subject is dango! DANNGOOOOO!!!!
Stephen
May 2nd, 2008
at 05:52
If that stuff tasted half as good as it looks, you must’ve had a great time. Yum.
Joe
May 2nd, 2008
at 07:16
No, I’m talking about the brilliant, ultra-cute song by Utada Hikaru.
They were both NHK Children’s songs that went big.
Dango -> Dango 3kyodai -> Boku ha Kuma -> ??? -> Profit
If you’re ever gonna have kids, you’d better build up your tolernce for songs like that!
xeno
May 8th, 2008
at 15:08
when it comes to songs about dango… there is only one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4k6HWcf6jM