日本の各地に正式な「名物」があるよね。
Every place in Japan has its own official "famous food".
愛媛ならミカン。松坂なら牛肉。青森ならリンゴ。下関ならフグ。
In Ehime it's mikan tangerines. In Matsusaka it's beef. In Aomori it's apples. In Shimonoseki it's blowfish.
一番理不尽なのはもちろん、東京だ。
It goes without saying that the weirdest "famous food" is Tokyo's.
そのいわゆる名物は、はい、バナナだよね。
What is it? Bananas. Apparently.
歴史上都内に誰一人もバナナを一本も栽培したことがないはずだけどね。
It's probable that no one in history has ever grown a single banana here.
だがそれとも関係なくどこかのバナナ起業家にマーケティングの名案が思いついたら東京バナナが誕生！その極めた表層的さが堪らなく、やっぱり僕の大好きな東京なら一番代表的な名物はバナナなんだ。
But some banana entrepreneur somewhere got this great marketing idea, and the Tokyo banana was born. It's the empty superficiality of the whole idea that convinces me that this is indeed the most
representative food for the city I love.
でもあなたが購入したバナナは本物の東京バナナなのかな？次の条件に当てはまるかどうかチェック！
- 袋は小さくてとても狭い。
- 袋の中にバナナがぎっしりと詰め込み過ぎている。
- バナナたち各々が周りのバナナの存在に気づかないでおき、そしてスマホに夢中。
- 一本のバナナが袋から出たいとき、出口付近に立っているバナナたちはみんな一度降りてそのバナナを通させてあげないとダメ。
But for your banana purchase to really, authentically represent Tokyo, it's got to be like this:
- The bag has to be small and cramped.
- There have to be way too many bananas in the bag.
- Each banana in the bag has to be pretending the other bananas aren't there, and also be checking its smartphone.
- Whenever one banana wants to get out of the bag, all the bananas near the bag entrance also have to step out to make way.