Totsugi Okureta Kitsune ga Yome ni Kuru Hanashi - Vol. 7 Ch. 67.5 - How Kids Should Be

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I wonder if the Japanese make and eat mashed potatoes at all. Where I'm from, that's a very common dish for home cooking, also enjoyed by kids.
 
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Y'all add some butter and maybe a little milk when cooking as well?
Many use butter. I add light cream (15%) and a little milk. It's pretty much the same thing, I'd say, since butter is milk fat, but I don't usually have butter in my fridge. I prefer oil when baking, not butter, but I'm not going to add oil to mashed potatoes, haha.
 
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I wonder if the Japanese make and eat mashed potatoes at all. Where I'm from, that's a very common dish for home cooking, also enjoyed by kids.
Japanese love french fries (and potato wedges) and stuffed whole baked potatoes, and even potato salad, but are not so much into straight mashed potatoes with dairy. When that shows up it's usually as a minor part of a hamburger steak set meal at family restaurants like Jonathan's, like as a perfectly circular bed (they have molds) for the steak.

If you do find mashed potatoes at home it's with rice vinegar and mayo mixed in, maybe some peas, maybe some bacon, etc., which effectively makes it creamy potato salad. Like https://food52.com/blog/22832-my-favorite-potato-salad-is-mashed-comes-from-japan . And having chunky is still way more common from what I've seen.

Of course maybe in some places like Hokkaido or Okinawa they do mashed potatoes with just dairy mixed in, but I think famires is the only time I saw them anywhere from Tokyo to Hiroshima.
 
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Japanese love french fries (and potato wedges) and stuffed whole baked potatoes, and even potato salad, but are not so much into straight mashed potatoes with dairy.
Actually, reading this again, I would guess the feeling is 'Why would we eat THIS mild fluffy stuff when we can eat white rice instead?' Potato's advantages, for them, is that it can have chunks/sticks and they don't have to feel bad about adulterating potatoes will all sorts of (tasty) crap that they'd feel bad about disrespecting the rice with. Only for the center of an onigiri.
 
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7/10 not enough Mugi-chan.

I was a little weirded out by how casually the old lady said she was going to the hospital though.
 
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7/10 not enough Mugi-chan.

I was a little weirded out by how casually the old lady said she was going to the hospital though.
Probably just a regular checkup. Their health care system is well managed enough that you can just go to a hospital for a cold or flu, which would be unthinkable in a primitive hellhole like the US. You'd be waiting in the ER for 8 hours and probably catch measles from one of our troglodites.
 
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Probably just a regular checkup. Their health care system is well managed enough that you can just go to a hospital for a cold or flu, which would be unthinkable in a primitive hellhole like the US. You'd be waiting in the ER for 8 hours and probably catch measles from one of our troglodites.

Makes sense. I was compariing it to my experience in Canada where we have public helathcare, but you still don't go to the hospital for anything less than serious injury/illness requiring urgent care. The rest of the time you go to your own doctor or a small-scale clinic.
 
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It is nice to see the Kawashima and Mutsumi relationship being as wholesome as I predicted. Really turning into a situation of mutual benefit and care. Also the adorable croquette monch
 

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