March 30, 2005
The Rose and Crown Arrives!
There is a small chain of 'British' pubs in Tokyo called The Rose and Crown. It's quite nice - a bit expensive and not very British, but decent and pleasant enough. They are expanding their operations, so have been distributing flyers near the station. I'd like to share some of their prose with you.
"Clothes made Saku Saku who encompassed the white meat fish". This describes, obviosly, their traditional fish and chips.
"Original meaning of shepherd's thing, so to speak,shepherd's pie home in Britain that made it from the remainder of roast beef dish Sheparz". Clearly a succint explanation of what that old favourite Shepher's pie is.
One of the new pubs is in "Adult town Shiodome" - I'm not quite sure if this means that only adults are allowed in the town, or if it was built by adults, or what. Is Ginza, for example, a child's town? Shinjuku an infant's town?
Finally, here's my favourite section:
"There seems yet to be no what for production and sales of the lugger to exceed the yell though the ice cold has been brewed as for Britain since the latter half of the century the 19th in the country where the brewing of yelled beer is active fromof old. 250 or more has the one brewery, and a variety of yelled beers are made in Britain in those breweries. However, the yell of Britain doesn't feel very sweetness."
The above nonsense makes a little more sense when you know that yell means ale, and lugger is referring to lager...
Posted by Gary at March 30, 2005 04:46 PMHey, I know this is off topic with your post today but I googled "doing South Beach Diet in Japan" and your archives came up...how is it going for you? I want to try the diet here but I am thinking its really going to be difficult. Do you know if Japanese bacon passes as Canadian type? As far as veggies, I'm fine but I never really see "low fat" cheese, or yogurt in supermarkets here. I'd appreciate if you could email me with some tips! deltadiva03@yahoo.com
Thanks!
I wonder if that was the pub we were in a while ago? Nice beer from memory...
Posted by: Jason at April 3, 2005 12:38 AMCurses! Foiled again by the dark, evil genius that is (and can only be) Babel Fish! Is there any word in English to describe the combined emotions of frustration and amusement? The answer is no, but I think that there should be so long as works of art like this exist: "However, the yell of Britain doesn't feel very sweetness."