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Related: About this forumAbroad in Japan: Japanese Sake Vending Machines
A business in Niigata has vending machines that allow customers to sample as many as 92 different varieties of sake. Predictably, things get more and more goofy as the sake-tasting proceeds.
MADem
(135,425 posts)When I lived in Japan, there were a lot of vending machines, but they've become even more popular in the intervening years.
Old Crow
(2,212 posts)It made me chuckle. The narrator, Chris Broad, has a witty and offbeat sense of humor.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Old Crow
(2,212 posts)I didn't even know there was such a thing. Is it at all like that drink Calpis? I like that.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Sake is made from rice. When they make it, they skim off the milk and bottle it, unless its a specific kind of sake, and then they allow it to be sold unfiltered. Consider it like Orange juice.You get the juice, or you get the juice with the pulp in it.
Old Crow
(2,212 posts)I hope to have the chance to sample it someday.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)i like sweet stuff.
Old Crow
(2,212 posts)Like attracts like, as they say.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Whenever I hear the word Sake, it takes me to Austin Powers.
"Sake it to me baby"
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Sake can be the rice drink ...it can also be smoked salmon. Aside from the kanji looking different how do Japanese tell if a person means smoked salon or the rice drink?
simple...
you either drink sake ...or you eat it and they know which is which!