People eat mochi all year round, but it's a special treat during the New Year's Week. Every year, several people die from choking on it. They're almost always children or elderly people. Yesterday in Tokyo alone, seven people went to the hospital (one man died) because of mochi. Anyway, please remember to chew your mochi.
I think it's embarrassing enough dying from a holiday treat, but now it's become national news.
What the fuck's Mochi?
ReplyDeleteIt's sometimes called a rice cake in English, but it's just rice that's been pounded into a sticky mush. There's different things you can put on it to sweeten it, or you can put it in a soup and so on.
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