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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 21:40

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On 1 Jul 2018 10:57:13 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

>On 2018-06-30, Alfred Falk <aef...@telus.net> wrote:
>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote in news:fppqg7F4m0fU7
>> @mid.individual.net:
>>
>>> On 2018-06-30, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Travel is becoming quite boring - no matter where you go, it's the
>>>> same set of big-box stores. 
>>> 
>>> Try going abroad, instead!
>>> 
>>> https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/indian-street-scene-13234319.jpg
>>
>> For a while longer.  They have Walmart and 7-11 in China.
>
>We went to Japan for a holiday last November. They have 7-11 there. Like
>so many things in Japan (*), it's the same as at 'home', and yet
>weirdly different.  I'd wager that American 7-11's don't sell gyoza
>or onigiri. And although the Japanese ones sell fried chicken, it's
>both completely different from and much, much better than American
>fried chicken. And talking of fried chicken, I'd wager they don't
>do this in the USA, either;
>
>https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--XLxUGOS2NQ/WGsgO986bpI/AAAAAAAAMkI/h1Gn_k5DmbEcWhcyVUCuSpgmB-AM2sALgCLcB/s1600/christmas.jpg
>
>(* It was brilliant, BTW. We loved it. One of the two countries in the
>world of the many I've visited that I'd like to go back to.)

     Apparently, KFC scored quite a coup with creating a Christmas
chicken dinner tradition in Japan, and many Japanese think it is a NAm
tradition.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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