So what? They're in rural Japan, what do you expect her to eat? Mexican food?
More to the point, she'd probably have the same reaction this chapter to just about any sweets with lower sugar content; I've
had sweets like they're talking about. Once.
And that was enough, because I simultaneously felt like my teeth were going to rot and I was going to get severe diabetes after just one bite. It was also so sweet that I found it to be almost unbearably bitter.
Having something with a subtler sweetness without mass quantities of sugar just hits different, no matter where it's from.