Matsutake from Turkey

A report from “Mezamashi TV” about how the Turkish villagers have discovered there is a lot of money to be made in exporting matsutake mushrooms to Japan (English captions included):

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9 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - December 2, 2009 at 12:31 pm

Categories: Japanese Food Tags: matsutake

HamachiMan

That was cool, there’s always been a bond between Turkey and Japan.
BZou

I’m not even sure if I had any of these, most likely I have when I’ve eaten japanese cuisine and just dont know it.

Read up on it, seems they can sell for some crazy amounts for the Japanese domestic ones.
G-chan

Every once and a while you get a real win-win in international trade. This appears to be one of those occasions.

http://www.zdwonline.de Haf

Yeah, right, win-win.
Oh, wait, you forgot to add the ‘win’ for our planet, as those mushrooms get shipped around the globe in CO2-emitting vehicles…

Trufax

Too bad that Turkey is such a religiously intolerant country that oppresses non-Muslims and will hopefully be denied entry into the European Union for it.

appi

BS, maybe in some areas, but you’ll find intolerance in every country.
In most areas I’ve been to nobody cares what your religion is. Have you ever actually been there and if so, where? Or just going by certain media outlets?
You realize Turkey is more secular than most european countries, right? If anyone was being opressed it was muslims if they want to both practise religion and have a decent job or education life was made near impossible for them for a long long time.

Trufax

The Turkish government executes people for apostasy. I’d say that killing your own citizens for leaving Islam is a rather “oppressive” way to rule people, but death for apostasy is expressly dictated by the Qur’an and Hadith.

ch

There is no one killed by government in Turkey. There is no law dictating killing for any reason. When you dont have knowledge about something, dont talk about it. You may hate Turkey or Muslims but dont give misinformation because you have too much hate.

umit

Bu ülkede yaşamadıysanız böyle Yanlıs fikirlere kapılmanız normal gelin ve burada biraz vakit gecirin
özellikle istanbul da ne demek istedigimi anlıyacaksınız.ben sahsen seviyorum japonyayı ve miyazakiyi.

Matsutake from Turkey

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