Should have been at the table when we had 1/2 doz mc buyers from japan, over for dinner.
MASH POTATO'S WTF. These guys spent 20 min, moving the mashers around with their forks, staring, smelling, rubbing it between their fingers, all the time it's sounding like the tokyo stock exchange, yammer, yammer, jibber jabber.
Watermelon was the topper. That whole respectful of ones house you visit. They are sitting there with a mouthful of seeds like someone just timothy leary'd them. Not knowing what to do or act.

KONICHI WA !