イチゴ一会

Will I go to Hell if I eat strawberries in December ?

If the answer is yes, at least I am sure not to feel lonely and to have a lot of Japanese friends to play around with, because strawberry is the fruit of the month in this country.

Everything started at work. I helped my colleague Yasuko-san to do a reporting about the new products you can find this month at the combini stores. I was amazed by the number of strawberry-perfumed stuff that suddenly appeared in the shops. One of them was “a strawberry-flavor crepe with strawberry cream and strawberry sirup, and true pieces of strawberry”. I asked Yasuko about this raise of passion for the strawberry (a national campaign to develop the production area ?...) but my colleague just answered : “Well… because it’s Chrismas !”.

Oh. Of course. Still I do not remember that Gaspar, Melchior or Balthazar ever offered strawberries to the little Christ but anyway. Actually it sounds more like the first opus of Asterix to me, even if I doubt that the Japanese know about it…

Strawberries are red, small, sweet and cute, so they are “Chrismas-spirit”. And the Japanese cultivate them inside greenhouses to be able to provide it in December, which is not logic at all for a European like me who associate the idea of strawberry with May, spring, sun and flowers.

So let’s get back to the point : eating strawberries in December. At least these ones are from the very close prefecture of Shizuoka, which means local production, so it saves energy on transportation, and isn’t it good to support local production ?... But I suppose that a greenhouse is not especially eco-friendly, and it would be better to support local seasonal production… Ok, let’s say that I buy it just once, for the experience of eating strawberries in December, and get a before-taste of Hell.

Wow. Delicious.

現在、東京のコンビニでいろいろなイチゴの味がある商品が見つけられます。イチゴの季節ではないので、私は同僚に説明をお願いし、もらった答えは｢クリスマスですから｣のことでした。本当にびっくりしました。日本にはイチゴはクリスマスのイメージを表現するんですが、私は信じられませんでした。

Comments

[Nicoleta]

Les surprises de L'Internet???!!!
Je corrige la dernière phrase.
"Je salive,comme le chien de Pavlov".
Tu te rapelle le cour de Physiologie en Terminale.

[Nicoleta]

Je suis désolée. J'abandonnerais pour le jour de NOEL, ma conviction " écolo" pour manger quelques bonnes fraises sucrées et parfumées.
En regardant les dessins , je salive comme "le chien de Pavlov" . Bises

[kawai mummy]

"Get into the metro ice bag!"! Quelle hérésie!!Des fraises à Noël.
Mais c'est si mignon, si joli, si frais à regarder et ton dessin si réussi: on en mangerait, finalement. allez, on te pardonne!
ET quoi d'autre, encore, dans les particularités "Noël au Japon"? Je suis friande!