The City That Puts Gold On Ice Cream

This ice cream is real gold. Send this to your friend with a sweet tooth. In Japan there is an old city called Kanazawa. You buy a normal soft ice cream there, and then somebody wraps a whole sheet of gold around it.

Táto zmrzlina má naozajstné zlato. Pošli toto kamarátovi, ktorý má rád sladké. V Japonsku je staré mesto Kanazawa. Kúpiš si tam obyčajnú točenú zmrzlinu a potom ti ju niekto celú obalí plátkom zlata.

The gold is beaten until it is very flat. It is thinner than a hair. It moves in the smallest breath of wind, so the workers must be slow and quiet and cannot breathe near it. Almost all of the gold leaf in Japan is made in this one city, and people have made it here for more than four hundred years.

Zlato je vytepané, kým nie je veľmi tenké. Je tenšie než vlas. Pohne sa aj pri najmenšom dychu vetra, takže pracovníci musia byť pomalí, tichí a nesmú pri ňom dýchať. Takmer všetko zlaté lístie v Japonsku sa vyrába práve v tomto meste a ľudia ho tu vyrábajú viac než štyristo rokov.

You can eat it. Gold is safe, and it has almost no taste at all. So the ice cream tastes like ice cream. It only looks like treasure. People hold it up, the light hits it, and the whole street turns to look. Then they eat it too slowly, or the wind finds it, and the gold slides off into the road, and everybody laughs.

Môžeš ho zjesť. Zlato je bezpečné a takmer nemá žiadnu chuť. Zmrzlina teda chutí ako zmrzlina. Iba vyzerá ako poklad. Ľudia ju zdvihnú, svetlo na ňu dopadne a celá ulica sa otočí a pozerá. Potom ju jedia príliš pomaly, alebo ju nájde vietor, a zlato sa zošmykne na cestu, a všetci sa smejú.