Comments on: A drink for skinny macho men

By: RMK

RMK — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:35:19 +0000

Actually, in japanese, the word “Macho” doesn’t have the same meaning as in the west. Here it means “muscular”, “with an athletic body”, etc. – and has nothing to do with the way you dring beer or treat women.
So here we have “muscular AND skinny” VS. “muscular AND fat”, which makes to me a lot of sense in Jp…

By: Haf

Haf — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:18:14 +0000

Please define macho.
A japanese friend of mine once told me that he’d like to have a body more like mine. He’s quite slim, and while I’m not really fat, I do carry some extra weight around. I didn’t really get what he meant, as there was also a bit of a language barrier, but he told me that I was macho and he wanted to be more like that. Strange.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:04:52 +0000

Man, they play this commercial a lot in Japan! My wife loves it and dances around the kitchen saying hoso macho!!! Gori macho!!!

By: Donym Sue

Donym Sue — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:24:55 +0000

No doubt. But since when was “popular” a synonym for “macho”?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:24:07 +0000

If you read the side of the the bottle there is 0.52g of protein per 100ml of the drink. Rather useless.

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:14:55 +0000

Only from a US and Latin American point of view really. Skinny men have been popular for a long time in Asia and large parts of Europe for a long time.

By: Donym Sue

Donym Sue — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:53:39 +0000

Skinny, yet macho men? Talk about a contradiction in terms!

By: Gabbi

Gabbi — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:32:26 +0000

ahaha, this is the best commercial ever!

Whenever I watch it, it never fails to bring the ~lulz~

By: no

no — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:47:32 +0000

The skinny guy at the left in the front is really cute

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:26:03 +0000

So the two extremes of “Macho” are Mexican wrestlers vs whisper-thin gymnasts? Where is the cowboy and the construction worker?

By: mortonsalt

mortonsalt — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:51:50 +0000

definitely looks like “protein” water

By: Stormgust

Stormgust — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:25:12 +0000

Didn’t want to say it that way, but yeah it is xD

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:03:15 +0000

Has being skinny ever not been “the thing” in Japan?

By: sdasdasda

sdasdasda — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:29:21 +0000

What? It isn’t very new thing there.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:59:39 +0000

Is being skinny the new in thing in Japan?