SEATTLE (Reuters) - Apparently doughnuts can clog more than just your arteries.
Hawaii residents love Krispy Kreme Doughnuts so much that they often stock up at a new store in Maui before boarding inter-island flights back home, overloading airline luggage bins along the way.
"The locals bring so many boxes of doughnuts on board that we can't always fit them on our flights. Some people will put five or six boxes in an overhead bin," says Mark Dunkerley, president of Hawaiian Airlines .
Hawaii's first Krispy Kreme store opened on Jan. 27 in Maui, less than a mile from Kahului Airport.
Doughnut shops are sprinkled liberally across the Hawaiian islands. But the novelty of a major chain, combined with the widespread custom of "omiage," a Japanese word that refers to the custom of bringing gifts home to family and friends, have given rise to the commuter doughnut.
On the day the Maui store opened, a Kauai police officer bought doughnuts for his entire department, then hopped on a plane for the short flight home, Krispy Kreme spokeswoman Tina McNealey said.
Man krispy kreme doughnuts are soo good... too sweet tho... :hehe:
Right on.....Tell me where can truth be found. When is a true patriot standing on solid ground..?
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Peggy
You mean other than when s/he ensures our freedom, 24 hours a day, to work, enjoy, sleep, read, watch movies, eat, enjoy a cup of tea? I'm really not sure.
Yeah, not to say that ya'll's don't see the picture, but, just to clarify, we Hawaii'ites can't exactly DRIVE over to the next county if we want something there. Gotta take the plane (HAVE to, unless you have your own boat, I guess, which'd take a long time, or that underwater 007 Aston Martin) to go there.
The notion is treated by one of our local comedians as part of his routine, but, I really DO think the governor that ends up "connecting" the islands with freeways'll ensure his or her name to be remembered as long as Hawai'i exists :).
According to today's (04/22/04) issue of The New York Times, in an article entitled "For Japanese Hostages, Release Only Adds to Stress," by a Norimitsu Onishi, these three Japanese ex-hostages haven't exactly been given the "welcome back home" treatment in their homeland.
The article states that expressions such as "You got what you deserve!" and "You are Japan's shame" greet them instead. They're even gonna be billed by the government for their plane trip back home (six grand). The "Yomiuri Newspaper," according to the article, thinks that "[something like] This is an idea that should be considered . . . Such an act might deter other reckless, self-righteous volunteers."
The female ex-hostage apologized to the nation via media.
The widespread backlash is being blamed by these "freelancers'" and non-profit types' disregard of the Japanese government's warnings concerning journeying to Iraq. Above all, it seems, as the article goes on, ". . . their sin, in a vertical society that likes to think of itself as classless, was to defy what people call here "okami," or, literally, "what is higher."
Onishi's piece also states that "Dr. Satoru Saito, a psychiatrist . . . has examined the three . . . hostages — Nahoko Takato, 34, who started her own non-profit organization to help Iraqi street children; Soichiro Koriyama, 32, a freelance photographer; and Noriaki Imai, 18, a freelance writer also interested in the issue of depleted uranium munitions." Part of his assessment? "'Let's say the knife incident, which lasted about 10 minutes, ranks 10 on a stress level . . . After they came back to Japan and saw the morning news show, their stress level ranked 12.'"
If TBS or Fuji TV was smart, they'd create this situation into a swell (didactic) drama.
I read the same NYT article about how the released hostages are being criticized and ostracized back home in Japan. It's a quite shocking reaction here in the US, but as I think about it, perhaps not so different from the reaction many returning US soldiers received upon returning from Vietnam who were labled "baby killers" and spat upon. War is Hell. Everything is irrational and bassackwards. People are sent to kill and be killed. Labelling them "heroes" and "freedom fighters" somehow is supposed to justify the madness. Other allies join in the fray with nominal military presence to kiss the US's butt and make sure they will get a piece of the trillion dollar pie in rebuilding what we've spent billions in blood and bombs in destroying. It's all FUBAR.
ichiban_noodles wrote:I read the same NYT article about how the released hostages are being criticized and ostracized back home in Japan. It's a quite shocking reaction here in the US, but as I think about it, perhaps not so different from the reaction many returning US soldiers received upon returning from Vietnam who were labled "baby killers" and spat upon. War is Hell. Everything is irrational and bassackwards. People are sent to kill and be killed. Labelling them "heroes" and "freedom fighters" somehow is supposed to justify the madness. Other allies join in the fray with nominal military presence to kiss the US's butt and make sure they will get a piece of the trillion dollar pie in rebuilding what we've spent billions in blood and bombs in destroying. It's all FUBAR.
Welcome to the board, ichiban noodles.
And I must simply comment that . . . everytime I see the U.S./war comments, I just tend to laugh. I need only cite the fact that warfare existed long, long before the United States was ever created.
War is human nature. Heck, the US was created and liberated through a bloody "good" war.
I meant to just stay on target with how things get irrational and normality gets warped in times of war. The Japanese should know this lesson well, as they were as brutal as Nazis in the last BIG ONE (WWII), and were on the receiving end of lthe argest man-made destructive force to be utilized to date. Still, as seen with the reaction to these returned hostages, the theme of blind nationalism and all for the good of nation that proved so destructive before return with fervor. The reaction to a safely returned Daniel Pearl would've been like a heroes return in the US, though he was out there for "selfish" motives to get a personal scoop as a reporter. That's neither here nor there now.
As for the soldiers signing up for another go-around, God bless their hides. There are also stories of low morale and high suicide rates. But obviously, these returning soldiers truly believe in the goodness of their task in Iraq. There's a great divide currently over the basic premise of this war, in the US and throughout the world. Regardless, war goes on as determined by the few, as always has been, and always will.