[sumo] [spoiler] Kotooushuu diet

[Jim Bitgood]

That is reminiscent of the Baltimore Orioles player several years ago 
who was hitting a lot of home runs one season. The press always 
looking for an angle, asked him what he was eating for breakfast. He 
said ate Fruit Loops cereal for breakfast. The stores in Maryland 
couldn't keep enough Fruit Loops on their shelves for a while after 
that. Very strange!
Personally, many years ago, we used to go into a small restaurant in 
Fussa-Machi and order rice and french fries.

At 02:55 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>Also mentioned in the English commentary...
>Apparently, Kotooushuu finds eating large quantities of rice 
>unappealing unless he covers it with lots of cheese.  Is this a way 
>for him to gain weight? Or just a personal preference? The 
>commentators, speculating about the ways this basho might change 
>sumo in the future, wonder if rice with cheese will become a popular 
>new dish.  Japan has been known to have a weakness for fads, so who 
>knows.  I wonder if this is the kind of eccentricity which for 
>Kotooushuu would be called a brilliant innovation but if it were 
>Asashouryuu it would be called outrageous behavior. I don't know... 
>as far as I'm concerned, it depends on the type of cheese...

         Jim
         "Chitose-Taikai"