The HORROR!

It's hard to type while curled up in the fetal position!  I have to stop trembling in fear and disappointment to explain.  I have been living in Japan now for more than a month and each time I go shopping for food, I noticed something missing.  The local supermarket is just a short walk away and we go there often for day to day needs.  For the first week I just learned the layout and tried new things, and then I went looking for BACON.  I found the closest  thing to BACON, a type of ham cut to look like BACON.  I cooked it up and made an omelet with some American cheese (another item of scarcity in Japan) and to my dismay, it had none of the deep rich mouthwatering savor that I am accustomed to.  I started feeling a little anxiety, but figured that another store would have the real deal.  So then began the hunt; York Mart, Takashimaya, Lawson, Family Mart, Big A, even Seven Eleven with none of them satisfying my need.  Then I learned about Costco.  Surely an American style warehouse market will have American style BACON!  So after begging Ryoko (I have to do the dishes for the entire month of October. . .) we went today and found - - -  the same limp ham.  The same lack of savory goodness.  My soul has withered and now whimpers from somewhere near my left kidney (who would have thought that a kidney could be the souls safe room?).

The real scare is that I still have 10 more months to go. . . . . .  WITHOUT BACON!