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bonesmakenoise: shoku-and-awe: shoku-and-awe: shoku-and-awe: shoku-and-awe: Convenience store chain Lawson has begun serving oden, signaling the start of autumn. Meanwhile, it is 33 degrees, 70% humidity, and Tokyo is melting. But sure. Oden. More oden signboards. The season is appropriate now, but it’s wild because English is super sneaky; grammatically, “Try to eat” really should mean “Why not try out a new food?” and probably should not imply “This shit is so gross we dare you to eat it.” Sorry, everyone. I am not in charge of this language. As for the rest of the copy… delicious? Sometimes. Warms up? Definitely. Memories? Subjective. To the person who asked why I don’t eat oden: It’s just on the wrong side of the cash register. Technically most conbini do have sneeze guards, but, as you can see, often they’ve been removed so customers can more easily help themselves. If you decide that you want to risk food poisoning to indulge in some chunks of daikon, tofu, or fish paste that have been soaking for God knows how long in broth under the open air, you just grab a ladle, scoop what you want into the styrofoam container (while shedding as many skin cells and bacteria as possible into the broth), and pay up. Make oden at home–it’s easy. Eat oden at a restaurant. Don’t end up calling in sick to work during your first month at a new job because you just had to have some ganmodoki. Task for autumn 2020: find out if this setup has survived coronavirus…… “Try to eat,” indeed. I feel so much better about being afraid to eat this stuff at the conbini. Did it survive 2020? Did any of us? -- source link