"Ha ha, i got 'im goot, yaaa."Grocery trips are part of our everyday life. We seem to 'just stop by' the Yamanaka or Uny every day anyway, and a few items can really add up. Yen are shockingly easy things to spend. Way easier than dollars, i think.
We like to explore different grocery outlets. Some are quite large supermarkets, and some are small specialty shops. The odd time we'll come across a foreign food shop, and recently Mandy discovered one near our house. It's not the best foreign food shop i've ever patronized, but it's ok.
We found some nice salt and brown sugar, but then we came across some stew from Belgium or somewhere. The package is in Japanese Katakana script and says, "oriental ace curry", which sounds pretty tasty when you read it, but the freaky kid in the foreground will deter nearly all prospective buyers (even the hungriest Belgians). The look on the kid's face seems to suggest that he recently stabbed someone in the back, literally, with that spoon. He's got the 'evil' finger to his mouth and everything.
If that's doesn't turn everyone away from the delicious stew, the little cartoon mascot will take care of the rest. It looks like it may have recently been stabbed in the back by a kid in a chef's hat wearing a slack expression. Would you buy it?
1 comment:
Seems to me that if I had the chance to be in Japan in the first place, The last thing I'd be looking for is imported Curry no matter who made it or what the weird kid on the front looked like.
UD
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