Posted in Bad Names, Names in the Wild, Peculiar, Product Names, Seattle Interest on August 14th, 2009 9 Comments »
A fun way to spend a rainy hour in Seattle is to browse in Uwajimaya, a huge Asian supermarket in the International District (which locals call “the ID”). There you can see products that, from a mainland American point of view (at least this mainland American point of view), are pretty exotic. Things like durian-flavored [...]
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