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Shop advertises as only having the second best ice cream melon pan

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The original was posted on /r/mildlyinteresting by /u/a_woman_provides on 2025-06-14 05:12:00+00:00.

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Maybe since it's Japan, the cook didn't want to dishonour the master he learned from?
- Too much kanji, no hiragana or katakana makes it feel like not Japan
  
  Second. Also, I can read Japanese, and that’s Chinese.
  Even for someone who’s illiterate, Chinese commas resemble English ones, just placed in the center of a full-width character box. Japanese commas are literally 「、」.
  
  Hokkaido is in Japan
- I like to think that they are just being honest with themselves.
- That's Chinese.
Slightly more believable than "the best in the world".
Seems pretty Braggable. Why wouldn't you flaunt that?
- Yeah, unless the second best is next door id probably settle.
Hokkaido is also a type of ice cream. Apparently available elsewhere, too. The rest of the text is chinese (at least, deepl recognizes it as such)
- My understanding is it’s less a type of ice cream and more a source of dairy
It's just "second to none" but written more verbosely
- Wouldn't it be "second to one"?
  
  There's a sentence in Cantonese "我認第二冇人敢認第一", which means "if I declare second, no one will declare first".
  I wasn't super sure if they meant that because Simplified Chinese is not likely to be Cantonese but Mandarin.
- No. Second to none means the best, this means the second best.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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