"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
news:HQuWb.33801$bZ7.19157@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> Hello all of you nihon taizai no Gaikoku no okata.
> Japanese TV (at least Fujiterebi) is going nuts with the end of the
gyuudon
> coverage. Is the ban on US beef into Japan bothering any Gaikojin, or is
> this just a JP thing?
>

It would be an issue if I enjoyed eating fatty meat - since this is
apparently why Austrian beef cannot be substituted for Sepponian beef - it's
too damn lean.  Japanese men like their fat - a claim I fully acknowledge to
be true dating from the first time I ever ate a Japanese-style piece of
steak and was literally reaching for the water jug to help swallow whole the
pieces of lard on my plate.  The fact that Japanese McDonalds hamburgers are
so much dryer than either UK or American is a bit of a mystery.  Actually I
wanted to ask an North American McDonald's worker if they too use microwave
ovens to heat up the partially cooked burgers as they do in Japan.

Thankfully I discovered the local Brazilian butcher shop several years ago.
Excellent, lean, Austrian beef at rock bottom prices - cut or minced to
order.  They also have a chicken rotisserie thingie at the weekends - a
whole roast chicken for about 1800yen - very Moorish.


-- 
jonathan
--
"Never give a gun to ducks"