Japan has some screwed up convenience store food. The most starkly horrifying of these are the strange snack-breads, which despite containing corn, mayo, and/or meat products, require no refrigeration whatsoever. Suspiciously cheap, and apparently impervious to spoiling, these things scare the crap out of me. Let's look at two case studies.
1. The Pork Sausage Roll
A lengthy pork wiener slathered in mustard and ketchup on a white bread bun. It can kick around inside your backpack for several of July's hottest days, and still remain edible. Yoiks!
2. The Pork Dumpling Roll
Looks like an innocent sesame roll, but open it up and whoa! There's some kind of greasy, meaty patty in there. Like the Pork Sausage Roll, it requires no refrigeration.
Are these things irradiated, or simply loaded with more preservatives than Lenin’s corpse? Either way, they are a sin against God and all that’s holy and natural.
10/15/2005: I forgot the punchline, which should have read "...but I still can't seem to stop eating the fuckers."
