Sweet, sweet Japan

I love Japan. There are always exciting things here and you never know
what will happen or what to expect.
Tonight at dinner we had rice, beef, pork, and salad. Of course we ate
it with the traditional chop sticks, which I am getting a lot better
at using. After trying a little piece of my pork I went to the salad
and started eating that. After a few bites I stopped and stared at a
leaf on my chop sticks for a little while. I couldn't believe what I
was seeing. There was a small little fuzzy green caterpillar curled up
on my salad leaf! I was so shocked. I said "Ohmygod! Dad there is a
caterpillar on my leaf!" he came over and I handed him my chop sticks.
He looked at it a while and than went into the kitchen. I suddenly lost
my appetite and didn't eat much more. Through the rest of dinner I
wondered if it was placed in there on purpose because I didn't think
it was alive and I didn't see it move. I was wondering if they
actually ate caterpillars in there salad or if it was an accident that
it got in there. I knew that there are some pretty disgusting foods
here from seaweed, squid, to octopus and many more things; they eat so
many different foods than Americans' eat. And then I got to thinking,
if I had been born in Japan and grew up eating the foods they ate and
went to America and got a smoothie or pizza or some food that we eat in
America if I would thought it was disgusting like finding the
caterpillar in my dinner!