Donal Fagan <Donal@DonalO'Fagan.com> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:I started my new Subway diet. 12" chicken salad
w/ provolone lettuce, tomato and pickles on whole wheat. Also three M&M cookies and a large
lime-flavored iced tea.
We'll see how it goes.
The Subways in Japan have 12" on the menu, but nobody ever orders them--it would be considered
glutonous. They had a 4" version for a while, and the lunch boxes come with two 3" sandwiches. It's
truly a shock to return to the U.S. and see the serving sizes in restaurants.
Japanese love to feel self-righteously superior in the area of diet, and the latest fad among
television shows is to profile some hideously obese American. They showed a guy who can't leave his
house because he's bigger than the doorway. He lives in a hospital bed in the living room, and has
remote controls for everything. There was another show that profiled a mother and two daughers, all
of whom were over 500 pounds. They need special industrial scales to weigh themselves.
There are also shows profiling crime and poverty and riots and what not. It gets really annoying ...
but I think they have a point about the U.S. diet.
Recently the North Korean developments have resulting in a lot of shows analyzing North Korean
television, which can be intercepted and recorded in Japan. The Japanese are shocked at the bizarre
propaganda about the rest of the world that is shown on North Korean television, but there is a
certain similarity to some ot the stuff shown about the U.S. on Japanese TV.