Yoshoku is distinguished from washoku, or “Japanese food,” but their histories are intertwined. That beef (let alone Salisbury steak) is eaten at all in Japan can be traced to an afternoon in 1872 when Emperor Meiji had meat for his lunch and, in doing so, reversed a ban on eating beef that had lasted 1,200 years.

But what should the Obama Cult do now? The man has turned off the switch on the Hopenosis and has revealed the Change Brigade for the useful idiots they were.

Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!

whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn