B Anderson wrote:
> Dave Fossett wrote:
>> Apparently Burger King will return to Japan with the opening of the 
>> first branch in Tokyo next summer. This time, it will be managed by 
>> Lotte (of all people), with 100 branches due to open in the next five 
>> years.
>> Lotte is also behind the arrival of Krispy Kreme doughnuts in Tokyo.
>>
>> http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/sangyo/20061215AT1D140AT14122006.html
> 
> I am suprised that Japanese people aren't more fat, considering the huge
> amounts of high-calorie foods on offer on every street corner.

What makes you think they're thin?  The change in diet has produced a 
generation of much taller children over the past couple of decades. 
Maybe fat comes next.  Or fat is a subset of tall, or only partially 
inclusive, or ... or ... damn, now I need to study Venn diagrams again.

I usually travel around by motorcycle, but when I take the train I 
notice that the Buffarilla* Index seems a lot higher than when I first 
lived here multiple years gone by and traveled everywhere by train.

(Buffarilla = "big as a buffalo; ugly as a gorilla" or "smells like a 
buffalo; temperament of a gorilla" depending on which branch of the US 
military you were a member of).