I used to work with Japanese people. One of the Japanese ladies watched me eat an apple without peeling it first. She said that she thought it was gross to eat unpeeled fruit. They even peel grapes before eating them. However, they will eat ANYTHING that comes out of the ocean. Jellyfish, dried little fish with the dried fish guts inside, herring roe, poisonous fish, yum yum. The Japanese are inscrutable.
I'd scrute one.
Octopus, potato, corn, mayo, squid and tuna pizza >.< :p (barf)
When I first got here.. the first food mistake I made was pointing to some onion rings on the menu.. looked like the ONLY edible thing there...
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was fried squid >.< puked and wretched for an hour :/
You should try frozen grapes on a hot summer day. Yum!
Driving through the fields (especially on a motorcycle) the morning after they have fertilized is not a pleasant experience. (To which I can attest -- personal experience...)
They even sell special disinfectant chemicals to be added to the wash/rinse water for use on cleaning fruits and vegetables.
US GIs have lots of tales about folks who tried to take shortcuts on that sanitation issue... (Ever hear of the "GI Trots"?)
First thing I ever saw in South Korea was an old guy coming down the sidewalk with a push-cart and every little kid running up to him and I figured that had to be the ice-cream man... Silly me, that was the octopus man.