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laviebelem asked:
Tanner! OK chicken teriyaki MUST exist in Japan. It just must. I'm reading Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood right now and right here on page 260 he mentions chicken teriyaki as an "old fashioned cold lunch." The book was originally written in Japanese, so ipso facto there is chicken teriyaki in Japan. I don't think you looked hard enough, my friend. That's the only explanation I can come up with!

Hmmm… if there is in fact chicken teriyaki in Japan the only possible explanation is as follows…

Vicki called up her people in Japan and they decided to pull some sort of sick elaborate Truman Show-esque type hoax on me. I’m pretty sure that every time I approached a restaurant a secret trap door would spin around and hide all of the chicken teriyaki. I’m probably on some reality show right now called “Stupid Americans Looking for Chicken Teriyaki”.

Anyway, thanks for the info Bel. I’ll definitely be confronting Vicki about my conspiracy theory tonight. I know she called her people!!!

If for some crazy reason you’d like to read more tales of my Chicken Teriyaki drama during my recent trip to Japan feel free to click here.

Notes

  1. iwillnothangmyselftoday said: Hahaha! I love the idea for that reality TV show. The awesome thing is that I get the impression it’s not that unlikely a thing to see on Japanese TV…
  2. kumako365jp said: no, as far as I know, there is no chicken teriyaki in Japan. what we have is always “teriyaki chicken”. kumako365jp.tumblr.com/…
  3. iainkendall said: “Stupid Americans Looking for Chicken Teriyaki”…it’s a British show, it’s been running for years. You’re season 10. Season…another Americanism we seem to have adopted. *ahem* You’re Series 10.
  4. laviebelem said: I think this conspiracy runs deep. Deeper than you or I or anyone else could have imagined…I think it’s time we blew the lid off this shizz.
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