M!LK turn friendship into a feast here. The song opens by realising someone has quietly become a best friend, and the story starts on a count: "One, two, three で始まる story" (a story that starts with one, two, three). From there it brushes off stumbles with "間違いも be alright! 涙も栄養さ" (mistakes are alright too, even tears are nourishment). That food idea is the whole song's trick, and it is pretty charming.
Life as a menu
The chorus tells you to devour every thrill, and "Hey! 酸いも甘いも いただいちゃって" (Hey! Eat up the sour and the sweet) uses the idiom 酸いも甘いも (literally "the sour and the sweet"), a set phrase for life's ups and downs. いただきます is what you say before eating in Japan, so hearing it here means "I'll gladly take it all." Then "まんぷくでいいんじゃない? Oh, with you" (isn't being stuffed full just fine? Oh, with you): まんぷく means a happily full stomach.
The second verse keeps cooking. "焦げちゃった yesterday すら笑えたよね" (we could even laugh at the burnt yesterday) is my favourite line, a bad day described as something that got scorched in the pan. Friendship becomes the secret ingredient in "隠し味に絆もどうですか?" (how about some bond as a secret seasoning?), and happiness ends up as "幸せという名のフルコース" (a full-course meal called happiness). It is a bit much, and that is exactly why it works.
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