WARNING: TEA

This iced milk tea I’m drinking has an expiration date of 041205 06:59.

That is, at 6:59 am, on April 12th, 2005, the tea expires. What happens at 7 am? Maybe it explodes!

I am very impatient, so I drank it. I guess we’ll never know!

The label is a mini translation exercise.

KIRIN
午後の紅茶
Since 1986

「純水」午後ティー
ミルクティー

What this says is

KIRIN
Gogo no Koucha
Since 1986

(jyunsui) gogo TI-
MIRUKU TI-

which is in English:

KIRIN
Black tea for Afternoon
Since 1986

(purified water) afternoon “tea”
“milk tea”