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Searching for things about Georgia online I came across this video and found it immensely entertaining.
First of all, Khachapuri is a Georgian staple food, eaten at least 8 times a day. It's unleavened Georgian bread made with local white cheese and is delicious the first few times, and then you begin to resent it for being the only Georgian word you know so therefore the only thing you can point at in the bakery. More extreme versions exist, with egg and butter, like this (or as mother and I have been practising - we know three Georgian words and we know them damn well - like es. Before we knew Georgian for this, we used Greek afta. Before afta came shita - Lithuanian and I am hoping to introduce sorrewa which I think is Japanese for 'something, over there'. Follow my jabbing finger, in other words).
Second of all, it's in Japanese. It's a Japanese cookery video for making Georgian bread. This makes me rock back and forwards in my seat with mirth. Japanese don't really do bread (they don't really go for ovens either), they go more for the steamed tofu and rice approach. This isn't a stereotype by the way - I suffered two weeks of traditional Japanese cafeteria cuisine and am now an expert on the subject. Don't accuse me of generalising - I do my research.
Third of all, Japanese is probably the best language to have on as a background noise, because you pick up excellent new words to practise. With this video on, mother and I picked up oven-ru, bureadu, and my favourite bakingu pow-duh.
Forth, just watch the opening credits. Whoever came up with the graphics content for this one is probably renowned in Japanese TV circles. Naturally, a cooking program should have a series of punk plastic baby heads rotating on the screen. Silly everyone else for not making that connection. Also, I like that the Japanese custom of bowing is extended to most honourable TV viewer. I felt special watching it, as if it was made just for me. And in many ways, I feel like it has been.
Anyway, without further adieu, I present to you this inexplicable but wonderful video.
