"mr.sumo snr." <mr_sumo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "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 -

I presume you mean "Australian" beef since the country where the city of
Vienna is
located and where Adolph Hilter was born, to my knowledge does not export
beef.
This is also a rather strange typo when considering that the word
"sepponian", presumably
from the Australian slang for Americas, appears in the same sentence.

>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.

I agree that the beef used in Japanese cooking is too fatty by American
standards.
However, that can be offset by the fact that "steaks" have never been
traditional but
the use of thinly sliced beef is more common, and in less quantities than a
"steak".

Musashi