Bar Code Hair

Do you have a cat’s tongue? If so, it means that you can’t eat hot food or drink hot drinks, just like a cat. The Japanese say that anyone who avoids hot food has a cat’s tongue (neko jita), and whenever my wife makes hot food for dinner she gives a few ice cubes to our son in a cup, since he doesn’t like hot things. There are other interesting observations the Japanese make about things. If you have a bit of a lazy eye problem the Japanese might say you are ron-pari which is Japanese for “London, Paris” — i.e. one eye is looking at London and the other is looking at Paris. And men with only a little hair on the tops of their heads have what the Japanese call “bar code hair.” I love the creative expressions of the Japanese.

Men (and dogs) with thinning hair on top have “bar code hair.”