The Ever Growing Edamame Bowl －増え続ける枝豆の器－

One of my wife’s colleagues recently gave her a bunch of edamame, or boiled and salted soy beans still in their pods.  In order to eat the edamame, you have to pop the beans into your mouth and throw away the pod. 

My son and I were sharing the edamame, and my wife gave us each a bowl to put the empty pods in.  This was a pre dinner snack, and I didn’t want to eat too many.  But I felt my bowl filling up quickly with empty pods. 

“I’ve got to slow down, or I’ll lose my appetite for dinner,” I thought. 

I put another empty pod in my bowl, and felt that it was nearly overflowing. 

“My goodness!” I thought.  “I must be eating more of these than I had realized.” 

I told my family that I wasn’t going to eat any more edamame.  I had had enough. 

Then my wife glanced up and said to my son, “Why are you putting all your empty pods in your daddy’s bowl?”