Saturday, May 31, 2014
Keep your mouth shut.
Ochobo. It is a Japanese lady thing. East meets west meets east. Japan adopts hamburger, adapts hamburger wrapper. For women. A hamburger chain in Japan marketed a hamburger wrapper that plays to a Japanese bias for women with demure small mouths kept shut. It is considered rude for a woman to open her mouth widely. Thus the hand covering the mouth when laughing. Wouldn't do to be all suggestive and everything. I suppose this means Julia Roberts cannot be considered beautiful in Japan. Roberts can stick her whole fist in her mouth. I've seen it. This marketing ploy is brilliant. And it works. Sales to female customers increased 213% over the month previous to the introduction of the wrapper.
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So they keep their appearance modest and demure. Don't kid yourself, Japanese women make all the big decisions about domestic life while their husbands pontificate about weighty worldly matters.
lol it's a gag, right?
I saw the most extraordinary thing at that castle in Banf.
The dining room is a bit cheesy with midlevel stuff, a suit of armor that is not real, heavy read curtains and such. A Japanese family seated nearby with a young boy. The boy stuck his hands into two dinner rolls and pretended they were boxing gloves and was going POW POW POW POW all over the place, sitting in his chair. The father a bit older than the woman just sat there looking straight ahead in complete stoic silence leaving all parenting to the tender patient administration of wife.
I recalled a time our family went into one of those slurpy noodle places. We were all seated around a table, we took up nearly half the space of the tiny closet-size restaurant in Tokyo. Beverly was acting up, as she does, figuring she can get away with pretty much anything in public. My dad got up from his seat and walked over to Beverly without saying a word, The whole place ceased slurping, silence reigned supreme for that moment in the noodle slurp house, all eyes on my dad. Dad gently pinched Beverly's chin, as if to set her jaw aright, then sat down. The next moment the noise of slurping resumed.
I'm certain they found that amazing, for the man of the household to take child-disciplinary action. The exact opposite of the Japanese family in Banf.
red curtains, not read curtains.
Did you eat any osoba at those places? That was one of my favorite meals there. That and fried rice.
If women in Japan aren't allowed to have orgasms, then I'm packing up and moving there this afternoon.
Allen, IIRC, soba and udon is the only thing that is served with various additions. Their kitchen smaller than my own apartment kitchen, it's service window a mere rabbit hole, the chef peeping through the hole not much taller than ourselves as children. And at night immediately outside on the tight winding streets, small men falling about the place drunk. Apparently that rice wine is killer.
Maybe the women have to have orgasms demurely. I doubt it. Japanese have a rep for being sexually biz rah. Japanese hero wears panties on his face.
Movie.
They're going nuts for the film in Taiwan and as far as I know that place is Chinese.
It would have to be burgers they are eating.
Go back to fish! It is better for you!
I think it was called osoba, which was a noodle soup. It's the only meal that I had over there that you ate with a spoon. I also loved those (can't remember the name) cracker/cookie (kinda like a Triscuit) with a piece of sea weed on top.
Vendors used to hit the bars selling snacks. One of those snacks was a piece of octopus in a sealed plastic bag. Man, did that ever stink. Yuck.
I suppose it was their version of beef jerky.
"I think it was called osoba, which was a noodle soup."
This is a memory my dad related to me about Japan, except he was pronouncing it 'soopa.' He really liked it.
“The untruth seems plausible only when words are used for their emotional connotations, but never defined.” ― John C Wright
WTH. WTF.
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I know a lot of fancy dancers.
God, you guys really do just want to eliminate from the face of your earth so many.
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