Where's the beef?

One thing that has changed in Japan since I last was here is the trade embargo on American beef. Since there is a miniscule chance that someone might get mad cow disease from eating curry made with tainted American beef, the Japanese government don't want none of that. Instead, they are importing Australian beef. And while Australia is also a large, plains-filled nation whose native population was over run by rejected white people, apparently they don't have the kind of cow action we get in the states. So there is a mini-beef crisis and the price of hamburgers from McDonalds (that's pronounced ma-ku-do-na-ru-do) to Mos Burger to Freshness Burger has risen. Most gravely affected is Yoshinoya, who of course makes their cash off of selling cheap beef bowls. Except now they don't sell beef bowls. They sell pork and chicken bowls. Nothing like a pork bowl after a long day at work.

So naturally when my cousin asked what I wanted to eat for lunch today (eating lunch was literally the only thing I got to do today), as per normal I couldn't figure out if I should demand something specific or say "anything would be fine", so I toed the fine line and blurted out "Um, something with meat in it."

And man, that was some pretty good pork.

Tomorrow, I get my cell phone. Hurray.