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Old Crow

(2,273 posts) Mon Jun 27, 2016, 10:28 PM Jun 2016

Abroad in Japan: Japanese Sake Vending Machines

A business in Niigata has vending machines that allow customers to sample as many as 92 different varieties of sake. Predictably, things get more and more goofy as the sake-tasting proceeds.

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Abroad in Japan: Japanese Sake Vending Machines (Original Post) Old Crow Jun 2016 OP

That was amusing! MADem Jun 2016 #1

Glad you liked it! Old Crow Jun 2016 #2

Now that's a japanese import I'd like to see! Elmer S. E. Dump Jul 2016 #3

I wonder if they have the Milky kind, ...my favorite! yuiyoshida Jul 2016 #4

Interesting. Old Crow Jul 2016 #5

its basically unfiltered sake... yuiyoshida Jul 2016 #6

Great explanation--thanks! Old Crow Jul 2016 #8

i like it but yuiyoshida Jul 2016 #9

Well... Old Crow Jul 2016 #11

Yummy. sarcasmo Jul 2016 #7

I love the Japanese language yuiyoshida Jul 2016 #10

MADem

(135,425 posts)

1. That was amusing!

Reply to Old Crow (Original post)

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:39 AM

Jun 2016

When I lived in Japan, there were a lot of vending machines, but they've become even more popular in the intervening years.

Old Crow

(2,273 posts)

2. Glad you liked it!

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 10:18 PM

Jun 2016

It made me chuckle. The narrator, Chris Broad, has a witty and offbeat sense of humor.

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)

3. Now that's a japanese import I'd like to see!

Reply to Old Crow (Original post)

Sun Jul 3, 2016, 04:07 PM

Jul 2016

yuiyoshida

(45,656 posts)

4. I wonder if they have the Milky kind, ...my favorite!

Reply to Old Crow (Original post)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 11:11 AM

Jul 2016

Old Crow

(2,273 posts)

5. Interesting.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Reply #4)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 12:04 PM

Jul 2016

I didn't even know there was such a thing. Is it at all like that drink Calpis? I like that.

yuiyoshida

(45,656 posts)

6. its basically unfiltered sake...

Reply to Old Crow (Reply #5)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 02:02 PM

Jul 2016

Sake is made from rice. When they make it, they skim off the milk and bottle it, unless its a specific kind of sake, and then they allow it to be sold unfiltered. Consider it like Orange juice.You get the juice, or you get the juice with the pulp in it.

Old Crow

(2,273 posts)

8. Great explanation--thanks!

Reply to yuiyoshida (Reply #6)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 10:49 PM

Jul 2016

I hope to have the chance to sample it someday.

yuiyoshida

(45,656 posts)

9. i like it but

Reply to Old Crow (Reply #8)

Thu Jul 7, 2016, 12:02 AM

Jul 2016

i like sweet stuff.

Old Crow

(2,273 posts)

11. Well...

Reply to yuiyoshida (Reply #9)

Thu Jul 7, 2016, 02:00 AM

Jul 2016

Like attracts like, as they say.

sarcasmo

(23,968 posts)

7. Yummy.

Reply to Old Crow (Original post)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 02:41 PM

Jul 2016

Whenever I hear the word Sake, it takes me to Austin Powers.

"Sake it to me baby"

yuiyoshida

(45,656 posts)

10. I love the Japanese language

Reply to sarcasmo (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 7, 2016, 12:05 AM

Jul 2016

Sake can be the rice drink ...it can also be smoked salmon. Aside from the kanji looking different how do Japanese tell if a person means smoked salon or the rice drink?

simple...
you either drink sake ...or you eat it and they know which is which!

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