Israel offends Japan's prime minister by serving him dessert out of a SHOE

[zhaoyun]

It's an ancient Semitic message...it means "take it, bitch ass hoes". Nothing unintentional about it. Abe must have fallen short of some Zionist "criterion".

Most likely failed demonstrating sufficient pressure on Iran or jumping on Israel's bandwagon in Syria.

[sailormoon]

It was Netanyahu's private chef's idea to serve chocolate desserts in shoe-shaped bowls and this young celebrity chef may have tried to do something outlandish. The Arab sources are wrong about Japan's shoe culture. In Japan, shoes are worn in restaurants and workplaces and they only take off their shoes at home to avoid soiling carpets. It's not because shoes are despised in Japanese culture. The type of mat used as a flooring material in traditional Japanese-style rooms cannot be washed or cleaned like regular carpets.

A formal dinner at the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has come in for criticism - because guests were served chocolate desserts in shoe-shaped bowls.

The occasion was to mark the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Israel. In Japan shoes are not worn in the home nor in most restaurants and workplaces.

Segev Moshe, a renown Israeli culinary expert and Netanyahu's private chef, was chosen to create the menu and dishes for the diplomatic dinner for the world leaders, along with their wives Akie and Sara.

After the main meal, Moshe rolled out the special dessert for the dining table: a selection of chocolates served in dark metal shoes, designed by the upscale Tom Dixon Studio, a British product and interiors company.

Segev, who is also head chef for the Israeli airline El Al, uploaded an Instagram of himself with the Netanyahus and their guests, along with the four shoe-shaped desserts at the table.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/is...-abe-843989571

[1R0N M4N XL]

i just read the article...

its not real shoes... its metal plates that looked like shoes..

[TEUTORIGOS]

It is a very rude indeed but funny at the same time

Yeah, when I first read that I was laughing my ass off, I couldn't help it.

[SvartVarg]

It was Netanyahu's private chef's idea to serve chocolate desserts in shoe-shaped bowls and this young celebrity chef may have tried to do something outlandish. The Arab sources are wrong about Japan's shoe culture. In Japan, shoes are worn in restaurants and workplaces and they only take off their shoes at home to avoid soiling carpets. It's not because shoes are despised in Japanese culture. The type of mat used as a flooring material in traditional Japanese-style rooms cannot be washed or cleaned like regular carpets.

If you eat at a traditional restaurant, and not an overly westernized restaurant concocted for tourists, you are expected to take off your shoes. Just as how you are expected to take off your shoes at bathhouses, food stores, and other places. Btw in a smaller traditional business, not the large corporate ones more prone to dealing with foreigners, if you don't take off your shoes your business deal may go sour.

To wear one's shoes into such a place is considered incredibly rude/ignorant. It isn't because of the carpet - most bathhouses nowadays don't have carpet - but because shoes are filthy. To track mud and junk all over the place is a sign of disrespect for the host or in the case of bathhouses the fact that this is where one baths. The principle isn't just Japanese. Anyone with manners would take off their shoes at the entrance of a house rather than track mud all over the place.


By Israel serving dessert in a shoe it'd be akin to Japanese serving Israel food out of a trash can.

[Dandelion]

Even if it's a metal shoe replica and detached from cultural context, this is pretty disgusting to be honest. We still largely eat with our eyes.

You neither would like chocolates from a toilet replica, so neither you like a shoe that looks mud/shit-stained even in knowing it's chocolate. Especially what appears to look like a sock that's been worn by Mr Bean.