COOKING WITH CONDOMS

     I love food as much as the next guy, but with Japan creating some crazy stuff, I'm not sure that I will be partaking in any Japanese cuisine if I ever go to Japan. First, a couple of weeks ago, Burger King Japan released a Black Ninja burger, where the burger and the cheese were black. Um, not so appetizing. Today, I read that there is a new cookbook to be released in Japan using condoms as a cooking utensil. I mean, who doesn't like to practice safe sex. I don't need to make dinner with it! 

     In order to raise awareness of safe-sex practices, a Japanese blogger and a manga writer (comic book writer) joined forces to produce the most facetious cookbook to hit your Kindle, "Tsukutte Agetai Condomu Gohan," which translates to "Condom Meals I Want to Make For You." Yes, condom meals. If I'm not mistaken, don't condoms come with spermicide and lubricants on them? That's pretty gross. Anyway, the book is an e-book of 11 recipes, that have yet to be tested, including "Condom Meat Stuffing", "Condom Cookies", and "Condom Escargot Cooked with Butter." Yeah, that sounds appetizing. If you're a hooker! 

      It's a condom-as-a-cooking-utensil cookbook, not as an ingredient. Just wanted to mention that before any of you rushed out to put condoms in your Ramen noodles. The book was published at a time when the spread of STDs, especially HIV, is expected to rise in Japan because of a societal misunderstanding of sexual health. I'm guessing that means the 70s are coming back. Free love for every one! According to an article published in the Journal of Japan Medical Association titled "Sexual Practices And the Risks for HIV/STD Infection of Youth In Japan," sexual activity among Japanese youth has increased since 2000. So has abortion rates in teenagers and gonorrhea and chlamydia cases. Oh, in that case, cooking with condoms is a brilliant idea! Are these people crazy? How about teaching the youth about the use of condoms and how they can protect you from STDs. Cooking with them, doesn't make kids aware that they are used to protect you. Cooking with them shows that you can make food with them. Then, again this could be the author's unique way of putting safe sex on the tip of everyone's tongue....Get it? On the tip of everyone's tongue? 

     If you feel so inclined, the e-book is available on Amazon Kindle (in Japanese), at $2.99. That's if you really want to learn how to make "Condom Meat Stuffing" or "Condom Escargot Cooked with Butter." Then again, if you'd rather read about shitting accidents, just purchase my book "S**t Happens" on Amazon Kindle. It's much more entertaining!