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@tanpukunokami In the US, immigrants lease/buy convince stores because Americans don't want to work in them for low pay and long hours. It's their opportunity to obtain the American Dream. I thought Japanese law prohibited foreigners from working without a visa/sponsor

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steve panza @clevethedog

13 days ago

@tanpukunokami Typical rush hour at a Tokyo railroad platform

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steve panza @clevethedog

13 days ago

@tanpukunokami Waffle House isn't really much different than a late night at a seedy izakaya under the railroad tracks 😁

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steve panza @clevethedog

14 days ago

@tanpukunokami Did you lick the plate? 😆

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19 days ago

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen. I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify. In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather. "Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully. "Honey, that's what it looks like." The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it." I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it. I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South. It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent. "Well?" the waitress asked. "I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed." "Everybody does, hon." Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it. Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating. I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden. It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.