Count down with me--Day 16
Nini is care-taker AI installed on a space station full of old people. It started out as a humourous story, ended up...not so humourous.
Today--let's talk about mochi, the kind of food that Nini mainly consumes.
In Japan, choking on food accounts for more than 3,500 deaths of those aged 65 or older (including 2,500 of those aged 80 or older.) In 2018, 363 people aged 65 or older died choking on mochi, and 298 in 2019 (661 in total.) 127 incidents out of these 661 occurred in the first three days of January, when mochi is most frequently consumed. Mochi--though what Nini eats is in a slightly different form than what Japanese people usually have during the first three days of January--gets stickier the temperature lower; in the steaming bowl of soup the mochi might look nice and soft, but as soon as you pop a piece into your mouth the texture becomes changes, to a more deadly one. It is very important to put a manageable size of mochi into your mouth, and wait before you have the next mouthful until the piece currently in your mouth is completely gone.
As a person who eats mochi all year round, I am determined to be very careful--though, well, this particular amount of excessive mochi in my mouth cannot surely hurt, as I'm more than twenty years away from reaching 65...
Data from Consumer Affairs Agency's news release:
https://www.caa.go.jp/policies/policy...
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Today--let's talk about mochi, the kind of food that Nini mainly consumes.
In Japan, choking on food accounts for more than 3,500 deaths of those aged 65 or older (including 2,500 of those aged 80 or older.) In 2018, 363 people aged 65 or older died choking on mochi, and 298 in 2019 (661 in total.) 127 incidents out of these 661 occurred in the first three days of January, when mochi is most frequently consumed. Mochi--though what Nini eats is in a slightly different form than what Japanese people usually have during the first three days of January--gets stickier the temperature lower; in the steaming bowl of soup the mochi might look nice and soft, but as soon as you pop a piece into your mouth the texture becomes changes, to a more deadly one. It is very important to put a manageable size of mochi into your mouth, and wait before you have the next mouthful until the piece currently in your mouth is completely gone.
As a person who eats mochi all year round, I am determined to be very careful--though, well, this particular amount of excessive mochi in my mouth cannot surely hurt, as I'm more than twenty years away from reaching 65...
Data from Consumer Affairs Agency's news release:
https://www.caa.go.jp/policies/policy...
Pre-order Like Smoke, Like Light here!
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