I love these chips. Wow. They're so good, right? You really jumped the gun on trying them though. You wait, wait, wait, what the fuck is that? They're open. So I want to try those two. Oh, sorry.

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It's a fantastic labeling of, you know, a fun story from Washington Post, which is about how a chain of popular conveyor belt restaurants in Japan are having to change how they do the conveyor belt by getting rid of the conveyor belt because people are fucking with the food too much. Yes.

And I think it's really a bummer. It's a chain called chose Choshi or Koshimaru. And there's been a number of incidents of people doing things like sticking their cigarette butts in the food or spitting on some of it.

It's been more sophisticated like some swapping out of items. That's a real liability. It's actually surprising us as this practice is going on with this.

Yeah, it's just like, so here's what we're going to do with your food. We're going to present it to every single other person in the restaurant.

And if it gets to you, then you can eat it. Like maybe I'll pass on that. I like what this says about Japan, though. It says this is a quote such stunts have quote set off a national wave of revulsion in Japan known for its exacting standards of both hygiene and politeness.

Big win for Japan. Yeah, I'm sort of like makes me want to go, but kind of, but yeah, people are really disgusted by this. And so as a result, the sushi train has has left the station for good.

It's not surprising. It's surprising. It's taken this long. It's also surprising. This is never crossed my mind. Same. Like I was just like, oh, fun. It like.

It's a moving hot and cold buffet at a deli. That's what it is. It just moves. It's like everyone has access to this food. You can have some of you would like.

It's true. There's just like a social contract that works for a lot of these things that I guess it was being broken and no longer works.

But it's the kind of thing where it's like if you are participating in this type of this way of procuring your food at like a hot cold bar or the sushi train, why would you want to think about this?

It is as the Japanese appointed out revolting revolting and also like putting a cigarette, but in one.

That person's got to be 15 years old. I mean smoking inside. You shouldn't be able to smoke in one of these places either. I never thought of that.

Did you import the cigarette book? Maybe it was like in their pocket or something. I know you've never smoked cigarettes, but I have.

You don't pocket the bus. That's not a thing you do. You don't just like put them in your pocket.

Just like a loose three quarters of burnt cigarettes and they just put this in my pocket. Maybe I'll want two bowls of a flat cigarette later.

What do you do with your cigarette if you want to save it for later?

You put it out. Do you have very gently?

Okay.

You put it back in the pack.

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