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To: Condor who wrote (44754)	1/15/2004 10:38:57 AM
From: macavity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Not sure what Koniaki is, but there is a whole cupboard of freaky food out there. I do not eat meat (but do eat fish) and Japan is heaven for fish-eaters. My one gripe about Japan is that they do not allow you to buy average/bad food. I know this sounds odd, so let me explain. I am used to fruit and veg here in the UK. Now it seems/seemed okay to me. I love my fruit and veg. In Japan fruit and veg is exorbitant. We have all heard the stories. But here is the catch. Now maybe as a gaijin I had no idea where to shop, but when I finally paid up 7 USD for the 1/2 pound of grapes they were the most amazing grapes that I had ever tasted. The same for the strawberries and generally this was true of all fruit and veg. I do not like apples but I love fuji apples (these are the ones that are hand-wrapped on the trees while they are ripening to allow them to over-ripen on the branch). The only conclusion I can draw is that this price must be quite close to the price you pay for non-intensively farmed or natural (whatever) foods. Fruit in the UK is completely tasteless, due to a complete lack of aroma caused from the intensive farming and just-in-time distribution. The catch is when you come back from the gym or something do you really want to pay 10 USD to whip up a fresh strawberry and banana smoothie. No. I would like the choice of buying tasteless fruit sometime. But as I get told by friends, this is because I lack class. LOL. For now I will have to dodge the farmed fish which is the latest health scare here in the UK. It is also tasteless. -macavity