"What in the world," you ask, "do buckwheat pillows have to do with turnips and peanut butter?" Well, nothing, really. Except that I have a cousin, Rochelle, who asked me, out of the blue, if I liked turnips with peanut butter on them. I looked at her like she was crazy, and she said "You ought to try it. It's really good, even though it doesn't sound very good."
I said, "Well, I'll take your word for that one." That meant I wasn't about to try it. However, curiosity eventually got the best of me. Just today my wife, Doris, bought some fresh turnips. She knows I love turnips cooked with potatoes and pork. I saw the turnips lying there on the kitchen table, and happened to think of the turnips and peanut butter idea my cousin had mentioned. I cut off a slice of turnip, and got out the jar of peanut butter.
Guess what! It's delicious. My cousin, Rochelle, had been at a party somewhere, and they served turnip slices topped with peanut butter as hours devours. Sounded awful to me, but now I love them. I would never have found that out if I had never tried them. Just think of the guy (I'm sure it had to be a guy) that ate the first oyster.
Okay, back to the question "What do buckwheat pillows have to do with turnips and peanut butter?".
Do you see where I'm going with this? Maybe you don't think that pillows filled with buckwheat hulls sounds like a great idea. But have you ever slept on one? If you try sleeping on a buckwheat pillow I'm sure you'll understand my point. In fact, please try sleeping on a buckwheat pillow before you try turnips with peanut butter on them. I have more confidence that you'll fall in love with the buckwheat pillow than I do in the possibility that you will just love those hours devours. But, who knows?
Buckwheat pillows are actually an ancient idea, over two thousand years old, in fact. Japan and other oriental countries have been using predominantly buckwheat pillows for centuries and centuries. But it has been only relatively recently that the western culture has been exposed to them, first in Europe, and then by way of Canada to the US. As a result, most people in the US have either not heard of them at all, or only have a vague idea of what they are.
Cultural things have a great deal of inertia. Even in a country like ours which has a lot of ethnic diversity, we tend to live mostly among others of a similar ethnic background, and so customs such as foods and ways of doing things get perpetrated within their ethnic circle seemingly forever. And so it is with buckwheat pillows. What is normal and common place in one ethnic circle is viewed with amusement or even disdain by another. Thus the expansion of buckwheat pillow use has been hampered by cultural inertia.
But each culture has something (actually many things) to offer to other cultures. The buckwheat pillows from the Oriental culture have advantages in virtually every venue you can think of over our Western culture's conventional foam and feather pillows. Just as my cousin and I gained an enjoyable eating experience from overcoming our critical pre-judgment of something foreign to our previous eating experiences, so can other people profit from trying new products from other cultures.
So try them, you'll like them - buckwheat pillows, that is. Maybe the turnips and peanut butter, too. Enjoy.
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