It’s true that at one point America was peddling candy cigarettes to our own children but that pales in comparison to the Japanese novelty candy magnates who encouraged people to actually pay money to suck liquid sugar out of a frothing toilet bowl. But as far as novelty candy goes, it really seems like their train ran off the tracks somewhere back in the industry’s formative years. By and large, our two proud nations exist in parallel harmonies. We love their sushi and ramen noodles they love our Pizza Hut and Burger King. They brought us Hello Kitty and giant fighting robots and and Ultra-HD TVs. For us, that line starts at tomato and stink fruit taffy.ĭon’t get us wrong, there’s a lot to love about Japanese culture. It’s just that at some point you have to draw the line. We will, for instance, put literally anything on a pizza. We understand that some things that our culture considers strange or nightmarishly insane are perfectly normal in a place like Japan – and vice versa.
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