The underside of my frying pan

How can one refuse?

Like the western fad for decorating clothes with Chinese characters because it looks cool, many products in Japan are rife with charming, though often innacurate and sometimes downright strange examples of roman script. The website "Engrish" at the bottom of the links menu is devoted to this phenomena. My favorite is still "hyper nonsense world tobasco shower" from the cover of a manga, although this one recently made me laugh like an exploding clown.

My bento lunchbox bears the legend "every year inspiration and cuttinig-ddge techinology so to bring you exciting new state-of-the-art product. with gentel mind", whilst Suzuki sensei`s bag insists "It is great and I want you who are the bag which is easy to use to surely use". The tag line for Harajuku`s sock vendor "The Mighty Soxer - with beautiful smiling face!" makes me chuckle, as do the staff in Family Mart whose overcoats confess "We like Green".

Meanwhile in Oda, Snoopy can hardly believe his luck.



"For me...?"