This is a picture taken outside the new Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop in Shinjuku, Tokyo. It's about 5pm on a Sunday afternoon and all these people are queuing up for the privilege of buying American confectionary.
Japanese people have long enjoyed amazing health and the greatest longevity in the world. I don't think that's going to be the case for much longer, though.
While franchises like Krispy Kreme are floundering in the US and many in the West are cutting out carbs, here in the Land of the Rising Sun we can't get enough.
People are willing to give over their precious weekend hours to waiting in line to buy literally dozens of doughnuts. And all because the shop is new and has been recommended on TV. It's the 'sheep' effect in it's most perfect form.
But wait! There's more...
As if the first picture wasn't hard enough to believe, look here at how the queue even snakes around the corner of the building. A wait time of more than one hour on a Sunday afternoon... for doughnuts! Can you believe it???
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