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PaperclipPerfector  17d ago (text post)   2909 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 14, 2025

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Hmm. Japanese curry might count. It’s a mangled Japanese imitation of a mangled British imitation of Bangladeshi (?) curry.

But by now very recognisable as it’s own thing so ymmv.

I'll never laugh harder than when I found out what Baa-mon-to kare with apples was meant to be. So many layers of bastardization it becomes original again.

Lots of weird food things like that here.

As you say バーモントカレー is "Vermont curry." The roux is apparently sweetened with apples and honey at some point. It's good. I prefer the 辛口 or spicy version.

There's an "Indian Beef Curry" in a heat-up pouch in the supermarket up the road. I have no idea what's going on there.

Spaghetti Neopolitan / ナポリタン is boiled spaghetti with chopped up wieners, onions, green pepper, and the sauce is...ketchup. That's like Heinz ketchup, not some special Dijon ketchup or whatever.

Though I've literally never seen a pig in 25 years in Japan (other than wild boar), tonkatsu or pork cutlet (katsu is just short for katsuretsu or cut-let and ton is 豚 which is also pronounced buta or pig) is everywhere. (Notably I have seen wild boars, but no pigs, no hogs, none of that. For that matter I've seen precious few chickens either, but chicken is everywhere here.)

One of the most revolting wines I've ever had is relatively popular here and is labeled Bon Marché, which basically means "cheap" in French.

Any new product that presumably is desired to seem fancy will have one of two words associated with it (or both): Premium, or simply the word "The" in front of it. Example 1　　Example 2

Oh, and to be fair we had a store called Bon Marché for years, so there's a good chance they just googled "french advertising stuff"

Yeah, with the price of imported feed plus processing costs I can't imagine making a profit at it. Esp when half the market is satisfied by cheap imports from the US and Canada.

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