Here are some random funny pictures I've been taking during my travels around Fukui Prefecture. Click pictures to enlarge if need be.
P.S. I recently had the opportunity to exhaust and nearly kill myself by climbing Mt. Fuji, I'm just waiting on some pictures taken by friends, then I'll post an exhaustive write-up, promise! :)
That's right ladies and gentlemen: BROILED EEL ICE CREAM. If I were you I would grab an American flag, kiss the ground, and start singing the Star Spangled Banner right now because being in the USA means you never have to eat ice cream that tastes like eel. The little sign says "オススメ" or "recommended" and that it's "No. 1". Yikes. I avoided their recommendation and went with rum raisin.
Tommy Lee Jones is the spokesperson for Suntory BOSS coffee here in Japan. His face is plastered all over vending machines and billboards here, always with a big, boldfaced BOSS right next to his famous mug. All the vending machines say, in English, "Suntory Boss is the boss of them all since 1992." That's pretty boss if you ask me.
Not quite as funny, but this sign is typical of the English used in signs around town. There's really not even any reason why the person making this sign should have screwed up - It's not like "dining" is spelled that way in Japanese. And if you have the sense to capitalize "Rico", why don't you have the sense to make bar and Rico two different words? I'm chalking this one up to pure carelessness.
P.S. I recently had the opportunity to exhaust and nearly kill myself by climbing Mt. Fuji, I'm just waiting on some pictures taken by friends, then I'll post an exhaustive write-up, promise! :)
That's right ladies and gentlemen: BROILED EEL ICE CREAM. If I were you I would grab an American flag, kiss the ground, and start singing the Star Spangled Banner right now because being in the USA means you never have to eat ice cream that tastes like eel. The little sign says "オススメ" or "recommended" and that it's "No. 1". Yikes. I avoided their recommendation and went with rum raisin.
Tommy Lee Jones is the spokesperson for Suntory BOSS coffee here in Japan. His face is plastered all over vending machines and billboards here, always with a big, boldfaced BOSS right next to his famous mug. All the vending machines say, in English, "Suntory Boss is the boss of them all since 1992." That's pretty boss if you ask me.
Not quite as funny, but this sign is typical of the English used in signs around town. There's really not even any reason why the person making this sign should have screwed up - It's not like "dining" is spelled that way in Japanese. And if you have the sense to capitalize "Rico", why don't you have the sense to make bar and Rico two different words? I'm chalking this one up to pure carelessness.
Ha! Daniel took a picture of the exact same Tommy Lee Jones thing when he first came to Japan!
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