Rompiendo puertas-- cerrando heridas Breaking mirrors & choking on mochi -- you do the hokey pokey and that's what it's all about.

Kagami mochi is not only a tradition that goes back to feudal Japan, it is also a lethal weapon. Feed it to your mother in law! I should start a business selling MOCHI insurance....

HEADLINES ON THE NEWS
TOKYO — Four men choked to death on Monday and Tuesday in Tokyo, Niigata and Ibaraki prefectures, and seven others in the capital became critically ill after choking on mochi rice cakes, a traditional New Year's food in Japan, police and firefighters said. Read the article on JAPAN TODAY by clicking here.



To keep from choking to death the Tokyo Fire Department recommends cutting mochi and meat into small pieces, eating slowly, and not eating alone.

Now... what I REALLY want to know is why the Fire Department is involved in this?!?! Once I had to call the fire department because I had a ring stuck on my finger and had an international flight soon to depart. Now THAT was an emergency... MOCHI? Nah...

This is a picture that one of my 6 year old students drew in her diary.  ¶ jueves, enero 11, 2007