One student I taught had actually spent about a number of months travelling in New Zealand, so he understood perfectly what a pub crawl was all about and informed me that in fact the Japanese had their own turn of phrase for this delightful pastime. "Hashigo-suru", which translates approximately to "Doing the Ladder", is used to describe an evening of drinking in as many different bars as possible. With each bar visited representing another rung/bar on the ladder.
Also, speaking of beer, here are some 130ml beer cans I bought, because well... they're tiny! I must say though the novelty of tiny beer soon wears off when you finish the beer after about three or four mouthfuls. Regular beers cans are shown here for scale.
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It's interesting that the Japanese phrase suggests upward movement and progress (ladder) while our phrase suggests downward movement and rapidly decreasing coherence (crawl).
I was, at first, wondering why anyone would need beer cans that small. After all, to us, a regular beer can is already a small beer, and Japan makes some pretty badass giant beer cans so it's not like they can't drink that much.
Then I realised - It's for cheating at hashigo-suru! This way, they only have to have half a drink in each bar. That's just not acceptable! New rule: Each drink must be at least 300ml or you're the designated driver.
Whats the normal drink can size in Japan?
re: russell's comment - you know, ladders go down as well as up!
@Eleanor:
Same as in Australia, about 350ml, but some of them get as big as 1 litre!
That's true.. which I guess implies that you're taking a ladder down from street level (where the bar is) into... the sewer.
Yep, that sounds about right!
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