Unagi with teriyaki sauce

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 7 18:49:09 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> Isn't "ajinomoto" Japanese for Ac'cent?

Yes! That was the point of my clearly-too-obscure attempt at a joke.

Well, with an upper-case A. _Ajinomoto_ is a trademark. In the U.S., at least.

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