Canned Coffee
Not having been all over the world, or the galaxy for that matter, I don't know if this is unique to just one country or whether it isn't. It is a strange phenomenon however, just mentioning it in passing to someone who has never encountered it gets quite a range of responses, all of them being related to that popular emotion (if in fat it can be classified as an emotion), surprise.
Yes one of the first things you notice when arriving in Japan is canned coffee. Hmmm, disgusting you may suggest. Well, you'd be correct. However, it is at the very same time absoloutely delicious.
The most alluring aspect is that is comes not just as a cold can, but, predominantly in the winter months, as a hot can. There are few simple pleasures in life that can surpass sitting on a platform station at 6:00a.m. on a cold winter morning, hung over from the night before spent with over enthusiastic Japanese salarymen, with boiling hot canned coffee in hand. so hot in fact that you find yourself continually juggling it from one hand to the other.
Yes, ask any foreigner in Japan about canned coffe and they'll tell you it is disgusting, but they will then buy two (one for you ) and drink it as though the beans were picked by Lucifer himself. Aaaagh and that's before you try hot corn soup in a can.
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