"Oh, so you can't even eat sandwiches with ham on them?"
<sigh> See, I think this is like the Japanese totally not realizing that katsuobushi is fish. If they would say butaniku, they would realize that it's meat, but because they say hamu, it has become totally dissociated in their minds from what it really is.
One thing I forgot to mention: Two students in the speech competition preached against wasting food. The first one harped about how school lunch is wonderful because it's nutritionally balanced and it teaches people to eat all the food they are given without having likes or dislikes--her argument being that people with likes or dislikes leave food on their plates and waste it, and when they become parents their children act the same, and it becomes a vicious circle. (Yes, she actually used the phrase "vicious circle.") I wanted to raise my hand and say, "Excuse me! If someone really has likes and dislikes, the person won't buy the disliked food to begin with, thank you very much. No waste, no problem."
However, the second person had a much more reasonable argument. She gave the example of how she worked at a buffet, and she was appalled at how much food people wasted. That's a reasonable example. Then she went on to point out how several times more grain goes into raising meat animals than the meat that is gotten from them, and that if people ate less meat there would be more food to go around. I gave her a thumbs up from the back row.
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<sigh> See, I think this is like the Japanese totally not realizing that katsuobushi is fish. If they would say butaniku, they would realize that it's meat, but because they say hamu, it has become totally dissociated in their minds from what it really is.
One thing I forgot to mention: Two students in the speech competition preached against wasting food. The first one harped about how school lunch is wonderful because it's nutritionally balanced and it teaches people to eat all the food they are given without having likes or dislikes--her argument being that people with likes or dislikes leave food on their plates and waste it, and when they become parents their children act the same, and it becomes a vicious circle. (Yes, she actually used the phrase "vicious circle.") I wanted to raise my hand and say, "Excuse me! If someone really has likes and dislikes, the person won't buy the disliked food to begin with, thank you very much. No waste, no problem."
However, the second person had a much more reasonable argument. She gave the example of how she worked at a buffet, and she was appalled at how much food people wasted. That's a reasonable example. Then she went on to point out how several times more grain goes into raising meat animals than the meat that is gotten from them, and that if people ate less meat there would be more food to go around. I gave her a thumbs up from the back row.