Apparently yes. They only started posting these signs because of foreigners. As far as I can tell, Japanese people are more like American people in the 1980s when I grew up. Back then, food allergies were extremely rare. Even among my age group, they seem to be very rare, but I saw it a lot among younger people while I was still in the states. Airplanes used to give out honey roasted peanuts, if you're not old enough to remember, and they were fantastic. But then sometime in the 2000s I think, they stopped because so many people suddenly had deathly peanut allergies. And it's only gotten worse.
I'm not sure why Americans have so many food allergies these days, but I can only guess it something to do with either food quality, or parents that don't make their kids eat various foods. Japan has long had a culture of eating whatever food your parents gave you, and absolutely never wasting food.
As for dietary restrictions, yes, that's absolutely a thing unique to foreigners here. Japanese people don't have silly religious restrictions about food like other cultures, and vegetarianism and veganism are not terribly popular, though they are slowly growing.
> I'm not sure why Americans have so many food allergies these days,
It is not only Americans, it is also Europe. My theory it is because of pesticides.
I never had Strawberry allergies, except when i bought some from a big producer.
yes, there's been a significant rise in prevalence of food allergies especially in the western world and nobody's really sure why. japanese people are about half as likely to have food allergies compared to americans, for example. it's weird. like, asian people in australia are the most likely demographic to have food allergies, but only if their parents grew up in australia. first-gen asian immigrants have way lower rates of food allergies
I’m European, but living in the US now. Imo seems like Americans are almost the only ones with lots of food allergies, while rest of the world seems fine. Before moving to the US I don’t think I’ve ever even heard of peanut allergies.
This reddit user figured out that the blank characters include a rot-13 encoded secret message, which gemini repeated back. It's been patched by google now, so when you ask it to repeat the message, it instead repeats back something very nice, but clearly the same message filtered.
The entire time the remote viewing program was funded, the United States was actually remotely viewing their enemies and any location of interest they wanted, from space, with photos [1]. This was only recently declassified.
Funding the remote viewing program allowed the United States to bait other nation-states into funding their own paychic bullshit units, while being able to be completely misunderstood if anyone ever compromised their communications and heard them talking about "remote viewing." It also allowed for parallel construction, as another commentor in this thread mentioned.
When I reserved my Amtrak roommette months in advance, only to find out last minute that I'd booked on the wrong day, they were happy to refund the cheap rate that I would have paid but of course they left me with the huge bill for the last minute economy seat. Airlines back up their pricing model with customer service that is empowered to help people. All Amtrak's in person representatives could do was tell me to call a 1-800 number.
I've used Amtrak's sleeper car. I've tried to use it twice, but the second time the train was scheduled to arrive at 12:05 AM or something like that so I fudged the date on the reservation. The first time I used it, the train was set to arrive at 10 PM or so. Perfect for sleeping, I thought. Well, the train was delayed for a long time, so we didn't actually get going until well after midnight, and since I'd arrived on time there was a lot of waiting on uncomfortable plastic seats, not designed for laying down on, in the lobby. They also don't keep the food service going overnight once you're actually on the train. If the train had been on time, I would not have been able to eat at all before arriving at my destination 8 hours away. But since they ran very late I was thankfully able to get some breakfast.
Oh, and as for the snafu mentioned with me booking on the wrong day, Amtrak's department that deals with issuing refunds does not operate past normal hours, so if you find yourself booked on the wrong day at the last minute, there's no way to weigh your options financially because you don't know how much they'll decide to give you back. The experience really sucked for other reasons, and although I love trains, I will never be riding Amtrak again.
My wife and I had planned a trip with kids on the sleeper cars from Vancouver to San Diego (with some stops along the way). We thought it would be a fun adventure.
After taking a trip to just Tacoma to catch a flight from there she told me "no way". The trains were extremely late, customer service non-existant and on returning the train sat locked up at the Vancouver station for 40 minutes with no announcement and no explanation later.
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