Polyglot Japantown
California recently passed the point where Caucasians were a majority. We are now only a plurality. On walks in the park, you are likely to hear people pass, chattering with each other in langauges other than English. Spanish, of course. But frequently Chinese, Russian, undetermined Slavic-sounding languages and, around our neighborhood, Japanese. Further south is “Little Saigon” … where so many Vietnamese refugees settled in the mid- and late-70s.
So, I shouldn’t have been surprised when I pulled into my local gas station, pumped some gas and saw this delicious? beverage advertised on top of the pump.
For $3.00, inside at the cashier’s station, you could get “Microwave Iced Latte.” I’m still trying to figure out if that’s a triple entendre or simply a mis-translation of Ca Phe Sua Da, which Google Translate renders as “Cappuccino leather” in English.