Quote Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo View Post
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 !
We have watermelon in Asia after a meal all the time. In Asia, you just spit them on your plate, like anything else you don't want in your mouth. Fish bones, duck bones, etc. Just spit it out. I guess they had been warned about that custom's acceptability in the US.