Got bilked?
09/28/2007 @ 8:00 pm
Nakazawa Foods, a dairy company in Japan, has released a new type of premium milk that they say will relieve stress. At 5,000 yen per 900-milliliter bottle it also does a pretty good job of relieving you of your hard-earned cash as well!
According to the company, “Adult Milk” targets adults living in our stressful society.
The milk is taken from cows once a week at the break of dawn as they discharge a lot of a stress-relieving hormone called melatonin during the night, the company said.
The milk is bottled within six hours of milking at a farm north of Tokyo.
It is said to contain three to four times as much melatonin as usual milk.
Via Akihabara News
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perfeckt 10:10
Doesn’t melatonin make you fall asleep? I guess if you’re sleeping, you’re not stressed, although you might be when you wake up on the kitchen table to find out it’s 11 and you’re 2 hours late for work!
September 28th, 2007 at 11:53 pmI don’t think melatonin is that strong. I used to take it to help me get to sleep and most of the time it barely worked.
Still, why not save yourself a few bucks (or yen) and just buy some melatonin pills?
(And the name “Adult Milk” sounds like some fetish AV.)
September 29th, 2007 at 8:19 am5000 yen?? Surely there’s someplace in Ikebukuro or Kabukicho that will supply milk directly from the breast for that price already.
September 29th, 2007 at 7:36 pmBogus. This is purely anecdotal.. We’ve never found the difference between natural melatonin and synthesized melatonin clinically. Go buy some melatonin capsules at your local health store and down it with some milk — it’ll be the exact same thing.
Things like this are unfortunately very “Japan.” Only the Japanese would even consider wasting money on things like this just for the sake of it being expensive, not to mention trendy. They see some bogus report on tv and off they go and buy all the natto in town.
September 30th, 2007 at 5:37 amNot at all very “Japan”, SuperCM. This sort of stuff is a multi-billion dollar industry in most Western countries as well.
And wasn’t it in Sri Lanka just last week where a restaurant offered a $14,000 desert?
The UK offers $100 beers and $4000 Scottish pizzas.
I could go on, but after 2 pages of “worlds most expensive” searching on Google, I have yet to hit Japan.
September 30th, 2007 at 8:41 amI stand corrected:
■母乳ｺｰｽ
40分\16,000
At bonyuu.com, of course.
September 30th, 2007 at 8:47 amIntereting, ghoti (and I’m not talking about the trend in your internet searches that went from expensive foods to the Japanese sex trade).
I don’t think we’re on the same page here. Every country could be proud to have the most expensive waste of creation for the sake of recognition or just simply to make the news. Japan’s the only place I can think of that actually has a steady market culturally for worthless items like this. Western ideal is “cheaper the better.” Japan’s ideal is “more expensive the better,” for no reason at all.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 pmWell, then, the 100 yen shops abounding in Japan sure punch a hole in that theory. My experience before I ever came to Japan was that sometimes people just want to pay more – they don’t trust a cheap product.
Take a look at pyradyne.com to see what a bunch of saps there are in the US. This guy is mega-rich from selling magical amulets such as the “nuclear receptor.” And he is not alone in his astute exploitation of the wide world of fools.
Japan may have a shot at the World’s Greatest Suckers title, but the competition is very, very stiff – and universal.
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