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Koji Kato of the comedy duo Gokuraku Tombo appeared on TBS’s “Jinsei Saiko Restaurant” (Life’s Best Restaurant) on the 19th and revealed a marital spat over his wife’s home cooking. Back when their kids were small, the family curry was made mild to suit them, and Kato — who prefers his spicy — said he ate it while grumbling to himself, “Man, this is sweet.” The remark set off a wave of stories on 5ch about how different households handle curry, the hassle of making separate spicy and mild batches, and even leaning on store-bought retort pouches instead. Meanwhile, some posters voiced discomfort at airing marital matters on TV at all, and others sarcastically called making bad curry a “talent.”
Sun, 9/20, 10:48 AM
Koji Kato of Gokuraku Tombo appeared on TBS’s “Jinsei Saiko Restaurant” on the 19th, where he confessed to a huge fight over his wife’s home cooking.
The episode featured former Japan national football team player Yoichiro Kakitani as a guest. When talk turned to dinner tables in households with young kids, Kato began, “When the kids are little, it turns sweet, you know — the curry. Because they can’t eat it spicy,” and admitted he used to eat it while thinking, “Man, this is so sweet,” gritting his teeth through it.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
That's prodigy-tier dedication right there
That's just normal, isn't it?
You just split the pot before adding the roux, so it's not really that much extra work
You doing okay with Japanese…?
"Curry is wife"?
So curry 🍛 = wife, huh
I get what he means though —
a wife who can make something as hard to ruin as curry taste bad is basically a genius
Mild roux curry isn't even that sweet to begin with
Just add some spice to it, done
Though he had plenty of other issues, mind you
No wonder nobody watches it anymore.
Classic old media
This is just him bragging about his wife, honestly
Actually, my mom's cooking was pretty rough too —
there'd be lumps that never dissolved, and after she got fancy with the ingredients it ended up with this weird smell baked into it
I remember being blown away the first time I had curry from a chain restaurant back in middle school
My little sister was convinced you're supposed to add consommé stock when boiling the vegetables, and made disgustingly salty curry
In Kato's case he just wanted spicy but got stuck eating mild — that's all he's calling "bad" here
but lately mild has started tasting better to me
I get it.
Up through my 20s I figured spicier was always better,
but now in my mid-30s, not just curry but soups too taste better with less spice
when all you're doing is melting roux in, lol
Nah, that's not it, lol
Before, he was furious that there was too much water and it tasted bad
Too sweet, too watery — they probably fought over it more than once, not just this one time
Just cooking while raising kids is hard enough as it is
If he'd quietly bought her a slightly pricier retort curry pack instead of complaining, dinner would've been way easier on her too
and it turns into unbelievably bad curry
Maybe their sense of taste is just off
They never just follow the recipe
Like the guy in Re: #62, you mean
It'll taste like day-two curry on day one
Sauté the onions until soft, add the carrots and meat, pour in water, bring to a boil, add the potatoes, skim the scum while simmering 20 minutes, turn off the heat, then melt in the roux
Isn't there basically nothing in there that could go wrong?
If you cook with ingredients available in Japan, most things turn out at least normal, don't they?
It comes down to whether you actually care about wanting to eat something delicious
Well, Noel from Oasis has apparently testified that out of all the curry he's eaten around the world, the only bad one was in Tokyo. Guess it can't be helped that Japanese curry is bad then
Since when is Noel's palate the world standard, lol
Background and Discussion Points
This isn’t the first time Kato has brought up his family’s curry situation — as one commenter on the thread pointed out, “he’s been telling this story for 15 years” — it’s said to be an anecdote he’s returned to in the media repeatedly over the years. The show itself is a talk program where celebrities reminisce about memorable meals, and this comment came as an extension of that format. Where the thread split was over whether airing this kind of marital exchange on TV is appropriate at all, with some dismissing it coolly as “just him bragging about his wife,” while the conversation also spun off into people swapping their own household tricks for making curry. Worth noting, as some replies that misread the original comment show, is that Kato never flatly said “my wife’s cooking is bad” — he was explaining that the curry was made mild for the kids’ sake, a nuance that’s easy to miss. The thread also gathered plenty of stories about how spice preferences shift with age, making it a thread that, in its own way, revealed some surprising depth behind something as ordinary as home-cooked curry.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “Koji Kato: “The Curry Was Bad” — Huge Fight Over Wife’s Home Cooking Leads Him to Storm Out Shouting “Shut Up!” — Her Parting Words Sting.”
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