Yoshinoya Employees May Lose Jobs Because of Internet Video
For some reason this was a top news story yesterday in Japan:
How many scoops of stewed beef can you pile onto a bowl of rice?
Two video-savvy cooks who tried to find out could find themselves out of jobs after the Japanese beef bowl chain Yoshinoya D&C Co. suspended them for posting a clip of their experiment on YouTube.
The three-minute clip, posted Nov. 30, had been viewed almost 480,000 times on the video-sharing site as of late Tuesday.
It shows a man in a Yoshinoya uniform heap ladle after ladle of steaming stewed beef onto a bowl of rice.
By the sixth scoop, the mound of stewed beef is twice as high as the porcelain bowl, with bits tumbling off the sides. The chef then goes on to make a huge corn salad.
“It’s just a disgrace to treat food this way,” said Yoshinoya official Haruhiko Kizu, adding that the clip made him “feel sick in the stomach.”
Company cooks are trained to top beef bowls with just one scoop of beef, he said.
The YouTube cook and his camera-holding accomplice _ both part-time employees at a Yoshinoya outlet in western Japan _ have been suspended and the company is considering further penalties, including dismissal, Kizu said.
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this just blows my mind that this is a big deal over here…. Can Japanese really be this infantile???? Treating food this way? What about all the sushi Japan throws out every single day?
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I mean, I could understand if it was pizza, but this is just silly. You can’t “treat food badly”. Food has no emotion, unless it’s one of those smiley-face fried breakfasts, but it’s always happy anyway.
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THey should be fired for making this horrible video. Seriously whats up with all the scrolling text and awful music.
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What?! That’s megaman 2 music my friend. Classic stuff.
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You should have your posting privileges revoked for such blasphemy. This is the best video featuring beef bowls every made. Silence you heretic!
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Awful music? What the hell man! Mega Man music is amazing!
I pity you not having grown up win the 80’s with such amazing games!
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go to nicovideo.jp. the text scrolling isn’t an original part of the video.
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THE SANCTITY OF THE BEEF BOWL MUST BE DEFENDED!
Actually, this video rules. Good music, good beef.
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Wow, I’m sure they really hurt that poor beef bowls feelings. Maybe I’ll try to comfort my beef before I cook it now. God Bless the beef martyrs!
Can’t believe this was news. SMH
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Indeed, God Bless the beef bowls who have came before and been devoured by the masses. They will be digested forever in our stomaches.
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The article left important parts out.
I think some other beef bowl chain started their Mega-beef bowl, so the uploader dubbed his the Tera-pork bowl.
First viewers were just amused, until there were a few comments pointing out that, the sauce was dripping back into the pot from his hands and that was pretty gross.
Then, the uploader himself commented that he ate a bit and dumped the rest back into the pot, and *then* the number of criticisms exploded.
The scrolling text is from niconico video, a video uploading site where people can make comments that are displayed as scrolling text on screen, and I think it may even have a greater popularity than youtube.
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Er, sorry.
May have a greater popularity than youtube *in Japan*, is what I meant.
I’m sure skimping on proofreading will be my undoing someday
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Helical, good explanation of what was behind the video and controversy.
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Thanks.
It’s the least a Nico-junkie can do to contribute;)
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Nico Junkie, wow. spead reading is required to read this video.
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Piling extra heaping servings of steaming beef on a bowl of rice is nothing compared to the disgusting things US fast food restaurant workers do in the food prep area.
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