Althouse: "Erm, something's really wrong with these McDonald's Japan cups."

August 9, 2019

"Erm, something's really wrong with these McDonald's Japan cups."

You'll have to click through to Mashable.

Finally another use for my "accidental imagery" tag! It's been almost 4 years!

28 comments:

Nichevo said...: Yeah, nah.; 8/9/19, 7:14 AM
Howard said...: Accidental child porn; 8/9/19, 7:16 AM
henry said...: a new achievement level in graphic arts. funny stuff.; 8/9/19, 7:17 AM
Curious George said...: Is that's wrong, then Laslo doesn't want to be right.; 8/9/19, 7:17 AM
Phil 314 said...: Well at least the Japanese are thinking about sex if not actually doing it.; 8/9/19, 7:32 AM
stevew said...: Oops. Or maybe not?; 8/9/19, 7:52 AM
Francisco D said...: Hilarious!

Is there no limit to human creativity?; 8/9/19, 8:12 AM
Ralph L said...: Cultural Appropriation!; 8/9/19, 8:21 AM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: Sometimes I think Althouse is part 12 year old boy.; 8/9/19, 9:21 AM
CWJ said...: I remember the first version of McDonalds plastic coffee stirs in the early '70s. They made perfect coke spoons. McDs changed them to a flattened shovel shape soon thereafter.; 8/9/19, 9:30 AM
Wince said...: "Erm, something's really wrong with these McDonald's Japan cups."

You mean other than the plastic straws?; 8/9/19, 9:31 AM
richlb said...: Sure, "accidental."; 8/9/19, 9:35 AM
Wince said...: Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...
Sometimes I think Althouse is part 12 year old boy.

I've always thought of Althouse as the favorite teacher of 12 year old boys, you know the one who can enjoy their hijinks without encouraging them too much.; 8/9/19, 9:41 AM
Mary Beth said...: We can assure you that this was certainly not McDonald's intention.

It may not have been, but I can assure you it was the graphic designer's intention.; 8/9/19, 10:41 AM
Known Unknown said...: If I were McDonald's Japan, I would own this.; 8/9/19, 10:52 AM
Sam L. said...: YEP!!!!!; 8/9/19, 11:05 AM
Charlie Currie said...: Experts. Marketing experts. What would we do without experts.; 8/9/19, 12:01 PM
Nonapod said...: There's some sort of fundamental human law at work here. How to phrase it? If some drawing or picture or piece of public art can easily altered to appear crude, sexually suggestive, or outright pornographic, it shall be.

It's the reason why "Puc Man" was changed to "Pac Man" when it came to American arcades from Japan, they were rightfully concerned that mischievious sorts would scratch out part of the "P" to make it appear as an "F".; 8/9/19, 12:43 PM
CWJ said...: Nonapod,

The law you describe is "rule 34."; 8/9/19, 1:30 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: The discreet charm of the Japanese. Nothing like it anywhere else.

I believe that AA blogged a couple of years back about the toilet-themed restaurant in Tokyo. Ya gotta have a gimmick in a market like that.

There is a high-rise (by Japanese standards) office building (the International Marketplace or IMP building) in the Kyobashi OBP section of Osaka that features "Toilets Of The World". Choose a different floor each day and take a world tour, of sorts. (Fortunately, they skipped India. Japanese are very clean people.)

As a gaijin, I hardly knew what to make of this, but there it is.

There's a shop on the ground floor of the IMP where you can pay by the hour to play with a dog.; 8/9/19, 4:05 PM
Danno said...: McDonalds Japan is trying to preserve their market. Japan has been below the replacement population reproduction level for many years and are slowly working their way to extinction. Their franchise will be worth zero when the last Japanese people die.; 8/9/19, 4:26 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: McDonalds Japan was a mainstay of gaijin like my fried Tom who seemed to know where the nearest McDonalds was no matter what hotel he was in.

Some people just can't get into cold smoked salmon, rice, and miso soup for breakfast. They have to have their pancakes and deep fried hash-brown potato pellet.

I'm hoping the Japanese stabilize their population at some lower level, and eschew ethnic diversity as a solution.; 8/9/19, 5:02 PM
Nichevo said...: Some people just can't get into cold smoked salmon, rice, and miso soup for breakfast. They have to have their pancakes and deep fried hash-brown potato pellet.

Are you fucking with me?! The Japanese have lox?!?!?

When's the next flight!!!; 8/9/19, 5:22 PM
CWJ said...: Nichevo,

Agreed! What Phidippus described sounds yum.; 8/9/19, 5:44 PM
CWJ said...: Maybe I'll get over my fear of Asian travel after all. However, the commute there for breakfast and back for lunch dinner will be a bitch.; 8/9/19, 5:46 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: nichevo @ 5:22 PM and CWJ:

It is not lox, alas. It is steamed, or perhaps smoked, to the point to being opaque and, well, like well-cooked salmon.

Just the same, much as I love lox (one of my favorite foods of all time), it is actually quite good and keeps you going until lunch time and works well with the soup and rice.

With some luck at lunch time you can have salmon raw, sushi or sashimi style, which is the way God intended it to be eaten.

That breakfast would be better with real lox of course, but hey, it's Japan, not Scandinavia. And it's still pretty good.; 8/9/19, 8:51 PM
Nichevo said...: Ok...cold smoked salmon is what most people think of as lox these days. AKA nova lox. I don't want to badger you too much of you're not a maven, but can you provide link to some product page showing a package of the stuff? Even if it's canned diner/deli lox that can be edible. Esp cooked up as lox&eggs&onions.

Anyway if you could get this who wants hotcakes and sausage? Maybe once in a blue moon for the homesickness.; 8/9/19, 11:38 PM
TheThinMan said...: Jazz music was first known as jass, but people kept crossing out the J in posters.; 8/10/19, 7:10 AM