Food pervades everything in Japan, especially television. Think of Iron Chef, and then think of every tv show as Iron Chef. Food's in your face all the freaking time. If there is no food, then it's not entertainment. Tonight I saw a show on the top ten conveyor belt sushi restaurants in the country. It was insane; there was a nigiri sushi with a 26cm long piece of toro. 26cm. That's my shoe size.Anyway, I'm always awed/repulsed by everyone on tv stuffing their faces with food, usually in one bite (even the 26cm sushi). They just... stuff the entire thing in there. It's basically food porn.
PS: Sorry for my bad hiragana... It's supposed to say Umai! but I guess the "i" looks more like "ri"....
2 comments:
yup, saw the same program.
At least it's not as bad as every TV show in America needing to be a reality-TV show, right? I mean, food is tasty. Reality TV is like vomiting in your shoe: hard to target, and always uncomfortable.
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