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What Do You Think You're Looking At? #200

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Addison Del Mastro
Feb 05, 2025
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My wife and I are planning a trip to Japan, and one of the things that’s interesting about Japan is you’ll read things like “This little noodle shop in a back alley has been in operation since 1376, which makes it the 20th oldest noodle shop in Japan.”

The United States obviously lacks that length of history, so our oldests are going to be by necessity m…

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