One of the things that amuses us is Japanese goods that try to be American. For example, we see people wearing sweatshirts that look to be from an American university, the kind with the school’s seal in the middle and the name around the seal, except that the school does not exist. East Tennessee Community College, anyone? Or on an item there will be a collection of words that looks like a cool American expression but actually does not make sense. This is a badge on the bike that Scott uses at ARI:
SUPER SPORTS WORLD CENTLIRY (sic) CLASSIC. Huh?
Recently Scott was finishing his hot goat milk after dinner and took a closer look at the mug he had grabbed from the basket.
It is a mug for GIANT CORN. You can see on the left side it says GROW IN BIG FARM and on the right it says AMERICAN DREAM. The lower left says AMERICAN TASTE, the lower right says IMPORT, and inside the star on the right it says SWEET.
Scott considered this, showed it to Chrys, and said “This is the most Japanese thing I have ever seen.” And we both cracked up laughing.
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