I saw the guy in the photo below eating some pineapple on a stick that he’d bought from a street vendor.

It was a hot day so I went and bought a piece for myself. I wish I had’ve known that the Japanese put lots of salt on their pineapple. Japanese taste is so different to what I’m used to.

I used to live in Canada with a Japanese woman that I met when I lived in Japan and the lunches she used to make for me were always a surprise. The lunch that sticks in my memory (or should I say throat) was banana sandwiches with lots of hot English mustard. She must’ve thought it was the closet thing we had in the cupboard to wasabi.  What we take for granted in the west as “normal” flavour combinations are not so normal to the Japanese.

De gustibus non est disputandum is Latin for “there is not to be discussion regarding tastes” or more simply but less literally ”There’s no arguing taste”