It was in the news recently that the Wendy’s burger chain is leaving Japan. They cannot compete against McDonald’s and MOS Burger, a Japanese fast food restaurant that sells a variety of fish-burgers which are probably similar to Krabby Patties.
At the mall today I saw this sign for a prawn burger — imagine shrimp on a fish burger instead of bacon — and was also reminded of a former colleague from India who was a vegetarian, except that he loved shrimp. He called them swimming vegetables and slept well at night.
We skipped the prawn burger but Elysia had a craving for dried cuttlefish. Dried shredded squid, a craving I will never have. Did you know that it is the chewing gum of the Orientals? Me neither, until now.
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I was vegetarian for 2 years at UC Santa Cruz… Except every now and then I’d go out for burgers with another would-be veg. friend. We’d look guiltily at each other until I suggested we both think of it as “imitation tofu.”