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

[1R0N M4N XL]

(1) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife had their dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife interrupted by an offensive cultural faux pas — dessert was served in a shoe.

(2) Shoes are "despised" in Japanese culture, and it's a weird idea in any case to serve food out of a shoe.

(3) A Japanese diplomat called it offensive and questioned what the meal, prepared by an Israeli celebrity chef, was trying to accomplish.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/israel-served-japan-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-dessert-out-of-a-shoe-2018-5?r=US&IR=T

[1R0N M4N XL]

There are speculations that it was a deliberate slight to send a political message, and not just some weird antics from an eccentric chef.
They argue that in high level meals like this, every detail is meticulously planned, from seating arrangements, decor, cutlery, timing, topics of conversation, background music etc.

Possible motives:

- Japan has historically sided with Arabs and avoided a meaningful relation with Israel (many Japanese companies avoided dealing with Israel because of the Arab boycott; merely for economic reasons)
- Japan was a former ally of Nazi Germany in WWII
- Japan has been warming up to China lately, which Israel (and USA) does not like

Thus they send a subtle and indirect message to convey disapproval rather than being confrontational

https://images1.calcalist.co.il/PicServer3/2018/05/07/815415/9_l.jpg
https://cdn.jerusalemonline.com/images/AAABecca/choshoesegevmoshe0705.jpg

i copied it.. i didnt write it.

[1R0N M4N XL]

wheres anglo-jew, & ak47 jewish guy?

thats messed up!!!!

[StonyArabia]

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

[1R0N M4N XL]

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

its a political message, to japan..

[1R0N M4N XL]

thats messed up... if it was a joke behind scenes when close friends are joking/goofing around., i can understand..

but its serious because they both took a picture to be published.

[MysteriousWays]

Seems like a faux pas, and not an intentional insult, but...Very strange. Never heard of having dessert served out of a shoe in my life.

[Dandelion]

Very unappetising anywhere if you ask me. Intentional of course and on the off-chance that it weren't, still to be treated as if it were intentional.

[B01AB20]

its a political message, to japan..

If it is, it's a quite retarded form of diplomacy.

[Dandelion]

If it is, it's a quite retarded form of diplomacy.

Jews are MENAs and MENAs communicate that way. In my opinion you should hand them pork cracklings not specifying it's 95% pork rind. :)

http://www.evertberkelaar.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/knabbelspek1.jpg

Japanese are passive aggressive and will let it pass, Middle Easterners will get violent because they think they've been slighted of their chances to paradise...

I would never do this to a jew or muslim, but those Israelis deserve it to be left with a pork aftertaste lasting an hour and only being told afterward they had pork.

[KMack]

Unintentional faux pas by the Chef.

[Black Panther]

Jews have nukes, Japs don't. They can play around and treat other countries like bitches because they have NUKES! I've always stressed the importance of a country having a nuclear arsenal.

[Marinus]

Replace Bush with Bibi, and the reporter with Abe:
https://i.imgur.com/CKWJ5wh.gif

[Joso]

Replace Bush with Bibi, and the reporter with Abe:
https://i.imgur.com/CKWJ5wh.gif

The same thing i thought ;)

[KMack]

Replace Bush with Bibi, and the reporter with Abe:
https://i.imgur.com/CKWJ5wh.gif

Great Gif

[Dandelion]

Yes. In Middle Eastern culture it's considered very insulting to throw a shoe at someone. However, I'd also feel insulted to be honest as a non-MENA.

Also, for men to point the soles of your feet toward others is also considered very insulting. Again, I agree with MENAs here. I get very irritated when a man is doing that do me. I never got travel guides to MENA countries telling that advice that you never should do that, because I also hate it being done to me as a Euro.

[B01AB20]

Jews are MENAs and MENAs communicate that way.

:confused: I didn't know that.
Then japanese diplomacy has got the 'message' and reacted to it... I guess.


In my opinion you should hand them pork cracklings not specifying it's 95% pork rind. :)

http://www.evertberkelaar.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/knabbelspek1.jpg

Japanese are passive aggressive and will let it pass, Middle Easterners will get violent because they think they've been slighted of their chances to paradise.. :)

nah, too subtle man.

this's much more clear. ;)
https://fthmb.tqn.com/0oRkhNvcPl_0FJzUb2NPHL8bG-g=/960x0/filters:no_upscale()/balinese-suckling-pig-on-spit-553394805-5a3315d5842b170037578efd.jpg

[Wadaad]

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".

[happycow]

Replace Bush with Bibi, and the reporter with Abe:
https://i.imgur.com/CKWJ5wh.gif

lmao

[1R0N M4N XL]

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".

my post #2 ... i just copied from someone... i didnt write it..

[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]

https://images1.calcalist.co.il/PicServer3/2018/05/07/815415/9_l.jpg

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/israel-netanyahu-chef-segev-moshe-shoe-shaped-dessert-japan-pm-shinzo-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]

https://images1.calcalist.co.il/PicServer3/2018/05/07/815415/9_l.jpg

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]

https://cdn.jerusalemonline.com/images/AAABecca/choshoesegevmoshe0705.jpg

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.