Mochi Strikes Again

[Unkotare]

As unfortunately happens every new year, a number of senior citizens have chocked to death on mochi. Although delicious and part of long osechi tradition, mochi may be just about the worst thing you can give to a person with diminished ability to chew and swallow.

Woman chokes to death on mochi, continuing a fatal New Year's trend

Over recent years, the chewy rice cakes have killed and hospitalized hundreds of people in Japan, where it is eaten to celebrate the new year.

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So, chew well, swallow small bites, and have some hot tea on hand to wash it down.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Those damned jelly cake things. Give me the fear more than trying to eat those damned Enoki mushrooms.
Japs love choking each other.

 

[Eman623]

Mochi mochi mochi man. I wanna be a mochi man...,