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Los Angeles-based actress Yuma Nakamura (56) sparked discussion on 5ch after posting on Instagram about buying a convenience-store egg sandwich — a favorite among foreign tourists — and remarking on how expensive it was. The photo showed a price tag of $6.19. Thread commenters were split between those who said it only looks expensive because of the weak yen, and those who pointed to America’s own inflation driving up prices. The conversation also expanded into how Japan’s style of egg sandwich — fluffy white bread with mayo-mixed egg filling — is a food culture rarely seen overseas.
US-based Yuma Nakamura buys a convenience-store Japanese-style egg sandwich popular with foreigners — “The price really surprises you, huh~”
Yuma Nakamura (56), who lives in Los Angeles, updated her Instagram on the 30th, expressing surprise at the price of the egg sandwich, which is popular in the US as well.
Nakamura wrote, “Went to the Japanese consulate downtown. Applied for my passport,” and posted a smiling photo holding her passport.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
The photo in Re: #1 is an egg sandwich from a 7-Eleven in the US, you know
Not even knowing that Yuma Nakamura (56), who lives in LA, posted this on the 30th — that's seriously bad
Speak Japanese, please (i.e., "that made no sense")
Bought a strawberry sandwich
It only looks crazy expensive once converted to yen because of the weak yen
A while back I used to go to Hawaii every year, and convenience store sandwiches were under $3 back then.
This person and Yasuha are probably the two whose reputations got rewritten by the city pop boom
La Mu, once written off as a novelty act, is finally — more than 30 years later — getting the fair recognition she deserves as a pioneer of Japanese "brocon" (brother-complex) music
Just my personal take, but I think Japanese makers make the best chocolate…
If you compare absurdly expensive overseas brands with cheap Japanese chocolate, the imported stuff sometimes wins, but at the same price point, Japanese chocolate is better.
It doesn't get talked about much, but Japanese snacks and sweets are seriously high quality.
○ The yen has lost its value
Even at ¥100 to the dollar that's still ¥619, so American prices must be abnormally high
Don't you know America's inflation rate? Prices have shot up like crazy.
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Probably comes down to a difference in how much value people place on labor
Over there even a kid's packed lunch is just a Snickers bar (´・ω・`)
I know about Yumi and Toru
Europeans don't complain that American prices are high even when they travel there, because the euro-to-dollar rate hasn't really moved — if anything the euro's stronger now than it used to be. It's only Japan that's wheezing in shock over US prices.
Most Westerners don't actually think soft, moist white bread tastes good — a lot of them say they dislike the bread in Japanese egg sandwiches, so it's probably more like their regular bread back home. It's just a different bread culture.
Sukeban Deka (Delinquent Girl Detective)
That's it
Mashing boiled egg and mixing it with mayonnaise is a style of eating that's unique to Japan
Hot sandwiches came to Japan from the West. The egg sandwich is a food culture unique to Japan. Ignorance really is scary.
"Moist" just means bad bread. And mayo is perfectly normal over there.
Even if plain white bread by itself isn't popular, the fluffy convenience store egg sandwich made with it IS popular with tourists. Or do you personally know a ton of Westerners who all say they hate convenience store egg sandwiches?
A lot of foreigners who say Japan's egg sandwiches are tasty actually say the egg filling is good but the bread isn't that great — or rather, they say it barely counts as bread
Background and key points of this discussion
Japan’s egg sandwich is made in a distinctive way — mashing boiled eggs, mixing them with mayonnaise, and sandwiching the filling between soft, moisture-rich white bread — a food culture rarely seen abroad. In recent years, this soft texture and egg flavor have become popular among foreign tourists visiting Japan, drawing more attention to it as a convenience-store item. Within the thread, however, opinions clashed over why prices look high in America: some argued it “only looks expensive once converted into yen because of the weak yen,” while others pointed to “inflation driving up prices in the US itself.” In reality, currency fluctuation and local price increases are both happening at the same time, and it’s easy to mistakenly attribute the effect to just one cause. There were also comments noting that egg sandwiches sold in America differ from Japanese convenience-store egg sandwiches in bread type and texture — a nuance that’s easy to miss from the article alone, since the same name “egg sandwich” doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] US-based Yuma Nakamura buys a convenience-store Japanese-style egg sandwich popular with foreigners — “The price really surprises you, huh~”“.
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