Years later, my brother grew up and drinks Yakult once in a while. But now I have 3 little brothers who are just as addicted! One time, I found the Yakult pack on top of the China cabinet, far from my brothers’ reach. Just this month, my youngest brother, who is 5 years old, came up to me, almost in tears, as his upper lip got stuck in the Yakult bottle while drinking from it. Instead of taking off the foil top, he just punctured a hole and drank from it. The act suctioned his lip in and it got stuck! I was laughing so hard cuz he looked so funny and cute. I could tell he was panicking inside and he was trying hard not to cry. When I got the bottle off, he just gave me this sheepish grin and said, “Hehehe!”

As for the Lactobacillishirotastrain, my dad always uses that term whenever he has to explain something scientific. Like, “Dad, why is the sky blue?” and he’ll say, “because the lactobacillishirotastrain… blah blah blah!”