Okay, so now I've heard everything. Apparently, one of the hottest dining crazes sweeping through the United States is something called "nearly naked sushi". The nearly naked part refers not to the diners themselves, but rather to the sushi server. I use the term "server" loosely.
What it entails:
A beautiful woman, clad only in the most minimal of G-strings, lies prone on a table. Her nearly naked body is then covered with strategically placed leaves, shells and bits of cellophane upon which one's sushi order is balanced. Diners can then pick and choose from this lovely platter as they chat and eat at their leisure. For a party of four to six people, the cost is typically $500.00 per person. Yes, the price tag associated with objectifying and exploiting women (because it's only women who are employed as sushi servers thus far) can be steep if food is involved. After all, as I understand it, the going rate of a blow job from your local hooker will only run you about $20.00.
In an interview with the press, one of the sushi servers defended her job and went so far as to dub it "performance art". Uh huh, and the accidental groping that might occur as clients clumsily manipulate their chopsticks would count as applause for said art?
For those of you who were avid watchers of Sex and the City, recall the episode in which Charlotte asks Samantha to refrain from employing the crude term "pussy" (in reference to a woman's genitalia). Of course, since Samantha couldn't abstain completely from the subject matter, she was forced to find a substitute word that was less offensive to Charlotte's delicate sensibilities. "Sushi" then became the girls' discreet code word. Wonder what Charlotte would make of this dining extravaganza, because truly, those women really do serve up a mean sushi ... in all respects.
More food for thought: As a complete aside ... when at a restaurant, if you should be so unlucky as to find a hair in your food, the general protocol is that it gets returned to the kitchen and the manager appears with profuse apologies and free desserts, etc. Well, in this case, would it just be considered one of the hazards of the meal?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Oh good grief. I suppose this is under the guise of empowering women? And I so agree about the hair. Ew.
The ironic thing is that the Chinese government has banned this practice and deemed it a violation of common decency You'd think the States which fancies itself on the forefront of protecting people's rights' would get with the program and realise how much of an infringement on women's rights this is.
Post a Comment