Despite what medical experts may claim, not all fruit it seems is healthy.
(click image for fuller and more frightening fruit)
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(More) whale for sale
Japan’s whale hunting scientists may well be accused of many things, but laziness certainly isn’t one of them; their research related by-products turning up all over the place.
As well as school kids eating the stuff and its availability in dainty little cans, whale meat is now easily purchased fresh.
Quite cheaply too.
Ideal for burgers apparently.
Saintly service
As maid cafes begin to saturate certain areas (almost) as much as Starbucks, conveyors of coffee and cosplay are becoming increasingly hard pushed to come up with new and geeky gimmicks. The people behind the newly opened St. Grace Court in Akihabara however appear to be on to a winner, ingeniously combining morality and maids with these nun inspired outfits.
With surroundings a little more sombre than the usual themed cafe, the staff also add to the ambience with their coy demeanour and heartfelt Christian beliefs.
And whilst their clothing may be a little cheekier than the garments sported by their convent-cloistered counterparts,
they all faithfully bid customers farewell with an earnest, “God bless you!â€
Bauer’s bother
Whilst wrangling with all manner of wrong-doers in his U.S. based adventures, 24’s Jack Bauer faces a far sterner task in Japan — furiously fending off silly at best ‘storylines’ plus at the same time being force-fed disgusting dietary snacks.
Yet having manfully manoeuvred himself through the women-only carriage of a commuter train in an earlier escapade, our hero has now been set an even tougher task — politely turning down his side-kick’s kind offer of a souvenir whilst at the same time running for a helicopter, and, it goes without saying, enjoying a noticeable nibble of his favourite foodstuff.
Click the image to see how Jack fares, perhaps pausing briefly to marvel at the presumably massive sums of money used to seduce Mr. Sutherland.
Whale for sale
With the prospect of Japan getting the go-ahead to resume commercial whaling in the not so necessarily distant future, the people in power are desperately trying to get rid of the nation’s growing stock of scientific research by-products — or whale meat as it’s more commonly known. School children in certain prefectures are being served it for lunch, one restaurant chain is offering whale burgers, and, in a rather desperate measure, dogs are allegedly being fed the stuff, whether they like it or not.
Yet as the sale of the meat helps in part to fund Japan’s very important whale-related research, it’s imperative that the stuff is sold, with these brightly coloured and jolly looking tins surely tempting both dedicated devourers and the uninitiated alike.
And with the addition of an unheralded ‘buy one get as many as you want free’ offer, who could possibly resist? Ideal as a talking point when surreptitiously served at a dinner party, or alternatively as a light snack, perhaps with a bit of veal.
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