My buddy Walt keeps an entertaining blog that takes note of all the odd uses of English you can find across Japan these days (though he hasn't posted for a few months).
Bad Engrish, as the phenomenon is commonly called, always makes me giggle and feel a little nostalgic at the same time. While I was often baffled when I lived in Japan (What exactly does Dog Wiz sell?), I enjoyed every second of it.
Luckily, with L.A. being the cosmopolitan city it is, we can walk into a number of different Asian grocery stores and find a little Bad Engrish now and then to tide us over until our next trip across the Pacific. This Pocky box isn't exactly a good example of Bad Engrish, but the tagline at the bottom is charmingly odd.
Plus, the fact that Pocky has a "Men's" line is just the best. Can we have an "Altoid's for Men" or "Brawny Kit Kat", please?
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