Saturday, September 01, 2007

The other white meat

I guess I will never have a shortage of blog fodder as long as Japanese products continue to be fucking weird. Thank God no other Japan bloggers have ever thought of pointing this out. None. EVER.

Anyway, the other day I saw this in a drugstore:

Surely not, I thought. Surely no one would ever go there in a thousand years, I thought. I had underestimated the cosmetics industry. They have not only gone there, they have purchased land there, and erected an outlet mall with an attached waterslide park there. As the name implies, the product contains placenta (of what creature I know not), which is believed to be good for the skin and "improving your constitution". In fact, a quick googling revealed a horrorcopia of placental skin care and health products. You can get creams, pills and apparently even injections containing "placental extract" to make your skin nice and soft and your constitution more improved. A steal at roughly $90 a box.