another pic of lamune
dan was nice enough to email me this pic of an old style lamune (or ramune) bottle with a glass top instead of a plastic one. next to it is a bottle of ichigo yakult lamune…… which is kinda like strawberry milk, but maybe carbonated…. i dunno, i have never seen yakult lamune….. maybe a carbonated milk drink. i had that idea in high school but everyone thought i was nuts…. now you see my ideas have prospered you fools! hahaha
September 21st, 2005 at 9:02 am
What is Josh in Japan’s e-mail address?
September 21st, 2005 at 9:36 pm
listen to the show and find out……
September 28th, 2005 at 3:18 pm
It’s interesting how we gaijin probably don’t listen to each other’s shows but we cover the same things. I noticed you discussed buttwashing toilets too. Guzen Radio also mentioned lamune bottles.
One of my listeners told me that lamune-style glass bottles were used for milk in English back in the 1940’s. They stopped using them because kids would smash the bottles to get the glass bead.
In Japan the switch to plastic tops apparently happened relatively recently. A Japanese friend of mine who’s not much older than me and been living in the US said she didn’t know about them. When she was a child they were still all glass.
September 28th, 2005 at 9:39 pm
ya, i try not to listen to much of all the rest of you guys just to make sure that i do my own thing, and don’t try to avoid topics that might be coincidentally covered by others……
i’m just now starting to listen to dowell since he doesn’t do too much topical stuff, and well, i try to listen to scott……
i guess you’re next on the list. i saw the vidcast of the house. very nice. you must have either deep pockets or a deep mortgage.
it looks like you’re somewhere out of the city like machida. my in-law’s area looks alot like yours…..
milk huh? how would the pressurize it to keep the marble up there?