Cultural differences

Needing to kill time during a layover in Tokyo, I got to sample how McDonald's caters to Japanese tastes. The menu had most of the the trademark items such as the Big Mac, the hamburger and cheeseburger, the McChicken and the Chicken McNuggets. Among the local offerings were Teriyaki burgers, a bacon, lettuce and tomato burger and a pork burger. The one thing that really caught my eye was a picture for the Ebi Filet-O, in which a portion of the sandwich was cut away to reveal shrimp inside the crispy golden fried patty. Since something like this would never see the light of day in the U.S., I was obliged to try it. Unlike the pork sandwich, I did notice the Ebi Filet-O was among the higher priced items on the menu so it probably falls into one of their premium sandwiches, another compelling reason to give it a taste. While the innards have a very nondescript pink appearance, along the lines of an undercooked chicken patty, it's actually quite tasty. I couldn't figure out if the yellow sauce was supposed to be mustard or something else, but it certainly helped with the flavor. Above all else, it tasted like shrimp and I guess that's the important part here. Not to mention that the fries tasted the just like American fries, i.e. good. I'm still not sure what a woman checking out clothes on the wrapper has to do with shrimp sandwiches...