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Apr 22 2004 3 Comments

Governmental gastronome

“Everyone would be healthy if they kept eating this kind of food.”
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, after he and his cabinet members ate elementary school lunches consisting of barley rice, fried pork, boiled root vegetables and milk.

It’s often said that politicians are out of touch with real life. And judging by the above quote, the Prime Minister has managed to prove it quite admirably.

Can he really be talking about this slop?

schoollunch.jpg

I have the rather unenviable task of eating this healthy food 5 days a week. I think it’s quite clear that Mr. Koizumi does not.

Categorized: Food and Drink, General

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  1. Kev says

    4/22/2004 at 10:13 pm

    It sounds okay, but 5 days a week? God no! Some variation is needed…

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  2. yoshioka, Tokyo says

    4/23/2004 at 10:57 am

    School lunches in Japan have got FAR better than 30-40 years ago. There was no variety, no rice, cheap bread every day, whale meat sometimes…

    I don’t know what Mr.Koizumi eat, but LDP’s Secretary General, Shinzo Abe has just started a blog with photos of his lunch.
    “Secretary General’s Brunch”(Kanjicho no buranchi)
    http://abeshinzo.cocolog-nifty.com/brunch/

    Unfortunately, the blog has stoped since Japanese hostage incident in Iraq.

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  3. Ron says

    4/23/2004 at 2:54 pm

    I go with Kev on this one.

    Now, I won’t be surprised if the taste is like “hospital/prison food”.

    Cheers!

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