My mom didn't like the lettuce in our salad at dinner tonight. I told her I thought it didn't taste bad, but she said it wasn't pasa-pasa. Now there are a million different words in Japanese that come from the sound of something, often used to describe texture, but this one was new to me. So, just to make sure she hadn't just invented it on the spot, I asked her if that word really exists in Japanese. She said it does. "It's the sound of dry bread."
Apparently our lettuce was lacking the quality best summed up as that of the sound of dry bread. I'll ask my grocer about that before I buy the next head of lettuce.
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