Sausage Baby Culture

Sausage Babies are big in Japan.
Actually, anything with a babies face on it is big in Japan. Be it a Banana or a hot dog, babies faces will be put on it. The little girls would call this ‘kawaii’ which means cute and say it about 12 times over and over again as they look at it. When I was in line for Jurassic Park the ride at Universal Studios Japan there was a group of four school girls that would take turns putting on this Hello Kitty headband with ears attached to it. Every time one of them would put it on, the other three girls would chant ‘Kawaii’ about 8 times, and say nothing else. So the literal translation would be ‘cute, cute, cute, cute, cute, cute…” you get it. Then they would pass the ears on to another girl in the group and go through the same process. I could understand saying cute once to show how you might think something looks nice on someone else, but having prescribed chanting sessions seems more like they are trying to convince the person wearing the Hello Kitty headband that they are adorable. BTW, Jurassic Park the ride was actually pretty good….but you have to buy a poncho at the gates for 300 yen. Mechanical dinosaurs rock, especially when they are programmed to be jerks and spit water at the Japanese lady who is sitting in front of you on the ride. Yusss