…I read about the handful of mochi related deaths every year in Japan and this fact itself seemed quite funny to me. Oh I felt horrible chuckling about it but death by choking on any sorts of food seems a bit funny to me and that it is a common, annual thing makes it funnier.
On Friday night we had a work party. I brought mochi deaths up and I was informed that the emergency procedure in the case of choking on mochi is to use a vacuum cleaner to suck it out. Heimlich doesn’t cut it. This had me in tears laughing.
Now I am on a quest to find a mochi choking emergency procedure card (must have illustrations).