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• Japan Invents a New Type of Bow
• The Last Howard Johnson's Has Closed
• The Dark and Seedy Origins of Wonder Bread
• Dog Provides Vocal Accompaniment to Bluegrass Band

Japan Invents a New Type of Bow Posted: 02 Jun 2022 11:44 AM PDT In Japan, a bow conveys a lot of messaging into a brief and sometimes slight movement. Using the wrong bow conveys the wrong message. For example, the eshaku, which is a 15º bow, is a casual greeting. The keirei, which is 30º, is a more formal bow used in the working environment. The saikeirei, which is 45º, expresses deep respect to a social superior. The gentleman pictured above is demonstrating the dogeza, which is an abjectly apologetic bow used to beg for a great favor or forgiveness for a serious wrong. Sora News 24 says the dogeza sometimes does not go far enough. That's when the more extreme dogeritsu is necessary. In addition to having committed a huge offense, the dogeritsu requires substantial athleticisim, especially if it is necessary to hold the position while waiting for the aggrieved party to consider the apology. Photos: Sora News 24

The Last Howard Johnson's Has Closed Posted: 02 Jun 2022 10:13 AM PDT In 1925, an American entrepreneur named Howard Johnson established a pharmacy and ice cream shop in a suburb of Boston. It thrived and by 1929, Johnson opened a restuarant. This was the first Howard Johnson's-brand restaurant, which became a thriving chain that swept across the United States from the 1930s through the 1970s. The company, which also built a chain of motels, was especially popular with road travelers who took part in the post-World War II travel boom. The company sold off the motel chain and continued in restaurants, but it struggled with changing markets and gradually declined, especially in the early years of the 21st Century. Now, CNN reports, the restaurant chain is completely dead. The last Howard Johnson's restaurant in Lake George, New York has shut down. The site is for sale with a current asking price of $10. -via Dave Barry | Photo: Boston Public Library

The Dark and Seedy Origins of Wonder Bread Posted: 02 Jun 2022 09:12 AM PDT One of the reasons white sliced bread became so ubiquitous was because of the expense of meeting rising food quality and safety standards- only large corporations could afford to scale up the process at the time, and white bread just seemed so clean and modern compared to the darker breads from one's own kitchen or a local bakery. The upshot was that all the nutrition was taken out of flour to make the bread white, and eventually those nutrients had to be re-added in processed form. In the generation before mine, white sliced bread was a luxury. One family I knew only let the father eat store-bought bread (which they called "light bread"), while the rest of the family had fresh baked biscuits or cornbread, which now seems totally backwards for a patriarchy. When I was a kid, white bread was an everyday thing, although not Wonder bread because it was relatively expensive. Now even the thought of eating tasteless, gummy, white sliced bread makes me queasy.    If you want to shorten this video's viewing time, the first two minutes are the history of bread itself, then we get into white bread. -via Boing Boing

Dog Provides Vocal Accompaniment to Bluegrass Band Posted: 02 Jun 2022 05:38 AM PDT This hound dog is Jack, a rescue pup owned by Brennan Gilmore, a guitarist with the bluegrass band Walker's Run. Jack often attended rehearsals and sang along with the music, but was not present at live performances until one special night in 2016. Gilmore tells The Dodo that the band was playing at a theater in Little Washington, Virginia. Jack slept in the greenroom. But the door must have been left ajar when Walker's Run went to the stage to perform an encore because Jack followed them and began to howl. Sadly, Jack passed on two years ago. But Gilmore thinks of him often, for one of his guitars is is engraved with a portrait of Jack.

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