The Cracked Mochi Of Doom

[Mulboyne]

[floatl][/floatl]Asahi: Rice cake predicts serious bad luck
A rice cake, baked annually according to tradition, on Wednesday portended serious bad luck for 2009. Mandala Mochi Uranai (Mandala rice cake fortune-telling) dates back to the Muromachi Period (1338-1573) and is held in this city's Kodaki district each January. Men born in years of the Ox, which is the Chinese zodiac sign for this year, made a round rice cake of about 50 centimeters in diameter. They then placed a sheet of paper on the rice cake and burned it. After the flames subsided, the cake was flipped over and cracks on the bottom appeared. If a large crack appears, the year's luck is believed to be bad. This year, extremely big cracks, of a size seen only once every 100 years, appeared in at least three places.

[gkanai]

[floatl][/floatl]Asahi: Rice cake predicts serious bad luck
A rice cake, baked annually according to tradition, on Wednesday portended serious bad luck for 2009.

Such a smart mochi cake. It knows more than Greenspan does. Let's put the cake at the head of the US Fed.

[baka tono]

I just wanna know how many people choked on that thing. A mochi that big surely should have added to the yearly mochi death toll. Btw does anyone know this years mochi death toll? My guess is five people.

[IkemenTommy]

I just wanna know how many people choked on that thing. A mochi that big surely should have added to the yearly mochi death toll. Btw does anyone know this years mochi death toll? My guess is five people.

Mochi death was so yesterday. This year's reaper is the blazing house fires.