[PilotJargon]

If you are Japanese and like Sake, that is fine since it is your national drink. If you are not Japanese and drink Sake, then what do you like about it? I have to admit that I don't like it much. There is much more complexity in western spirits than Sake. However, every Kendo events presents Sake and people just cheer on it. Are we japonile. Sometimes when we have Japanese Sensei come over, we bring Sake to the party. Do they have enough at home and prefer to try something else? I remembered one of the party and I brought a bottle of Hennessy VSOP and it was emptied before any other Sake. Even Japanese Sensei drank it first. Come on, just admit it that you want to be Japanese.

Want to be Japanese? you kidding me? I am a Yorkshireman, why when I am one of Gods Own would I wish to be anything else.

as we say oop 'ere. "Give tha edd a sheck lad"!

I prefer sake over European grape wine.

If the stores here don't import good stuff (and it is pretty darn limited...) I'd love to try the good stuff!!!

I am happy to have a shot of sake every day. I also like a good ale and stout.

European Grape wine? as opposed to what?

European Beeswax wine?

The whole "wanting to be Japanese" thing kind of weirds me out. You can like shepherd's pie without "wanting to be English", you can like bagpipe music without "wanting to be Scottish", you can like Celtic crosses and knotwork without "wanting to be Irish"... you can like German furniture without "wanting to be German" although people will most likely think you're insane.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking and appreciating another culture. Heaping scorn on people who choose to appreciate other the products of other cultures seems counterproductive in today's global society.

And frankly, we're running around in split dresses wearing smelly gear and hitting each other with bamboo sticks while screaming in foreign language -- if you were going to say someone "wanted to be Japanese", wouldn't you level that charge at a kendoka before someone who likes sake? Seriously.

I kinda liked this response, think I will posrep you if I am able..No, I have decided that I will posrep you.

Does a bear shit in the buckwheat?

I don't know; do they do this?



For me, I do worry that we have a strange habit of giving people gifts from their place of origin, so whilst Sake is often given as a gift to the Japanese, I have thought it a bit odd.

This year I gave Oshita Sensei a bottle of armagnac as he yold me previously that he does enjoy a good French Brandy and I told him about Armagnac and he said he had never tried it. Seemed the right gift to give, really!