Japanese traditional breakfast food leaves a lot to be desired. Traditional food, while healthy, tastes like rubbish. I lack the proper vocabulary to be able to describe the taste, but to get a good idea of what it's like, imagine what Lake Erie water tastes like. Then add some salt to it. Well, that's what it tastes like to me and if you disagree, STFU.

Let me turn my focus to Japanese cereal. It flat out sucks harder than even the most busted of porno actresses. You have two or three varieties. The first two varieties are craptified "Cornflakes" and the last is of the 'granola mixture' variety, which isn't half bad but they only have like one kind. At least some stores import Co-co Krispies™ and a couple of other Kellogg® brands. Since they love Disney® the "Mickey's Magic™" and "Whiney the Gay Pooh™" cereals can both be found. The size of the box is laughable, only about 200grams (it ain't much): the size of 2 servings for me. Wake up and smell the Cinnamon Toast Crunch™. The taste of Japanese cereals is invariably bland. The reason for this being that most people dislike sweet things, especially for breakfast. They'd rather eat seaweed (yuck) or raw fish (double yuck) for breakfast. I could go on about why Japanese people like fish, but that's for another rant...

Another breakfast disservice is the quality of milk here in Japan. It tastes just like it has gone off by a day or two even when it is fresh. I'm guessing this has something to do with the preservation methods or something but it just doesn't taste right. Japanese people don't know what they're missing with North American milk. To get a sense of what the milk tastes like, pour a glass of milk, and then leave it out overnight (maybe cover it so no dust or crud gets into it), then put it in the refridgerator again for about 10 minutes. Take it out and drink it. That's Japanese milk and that's what I have to deal with. Needless to say, the milk doesn't compliment the dollar store quality cereal very well.

The last thing on a language note is the Japanese word for cereal: shi-ri-a-ru. Most can't understand my pronunciation of the English word they stole. And that really psisses me of because they don't understand their own language when a foreigner speaks it. And that's a whole 'nother year's worth of rants.