J*THOUGHT - SAME PRICE BUT SMALLER

This will be the start of my random thoughts about japan while i live here. Everyday i think of something, but now i will write it down to share with you. I will name this section J*THOUGHT. Not very original, but hey it gets the point across. Kinda like short stories by Jack Handy on SNL.

Anyways, everyone says things are a bit more expensive in japan. Most of the times i would have to agree, because there has been many a times i have blown $20 to even $50 on a meal. Totally unheard of if i lived in the USA back home. I know back home if i spent more than $7 on a meal that would be pushing it, and if it was $50 i would have gone to the MET or Palisades for a bling bling bling dinner, and we know those dinners dont come very often at all. So why am i spending so much money on food at times? Well, heck i dont really know??? Is it because the Yen looks like Monopoly money to me??? I cant even count how many times i have eaten steak this year, and i know each time was not cheap .... mmmm ...

Anyways back to the topic, as this is kinda some random writing or typing anyway. Things in Japan arent always more expensive but merly just smaller!!! ... for the same price ... Take for example something that can be compared in both countries. My favorite example, McDonalds. A Big Mac set will run you about $6 bucks or so in the USA. But here in Japan you can get that same regular set for around $6 too, just that your fries would be a bit smaller, moving from something like a large size to a medium size by default, and that is the same for the drink. And even if you do so called super size in japan, it basically just rounds it to about a little less than a large size in the US. So drinks and fries (potato they call it here) are a bit smaller, but luckily the Big Mac is about the same size, thank the lord for that. I cant live without my BigMac.

Then other things such as sandwiches, yup, much smaller, much smaller, and where is the meat? Steak, ha ha ha ... same price or more, but less steak, even half the steak! yikes! Where is the beef!!! As the list can continue on and on, i am sure anyone can imagine a case of "Honey I Shrunk Everthing in Japan" being a good description of my life here.