Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 04, 2019

Sing a song of sixpence,A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds,Baked in a pie.

When the pie was openedThe birds began to sing; Wasn’t that a dainty dish,To set before the king.

So does that mean from that one “Cul de Sac” Sunday strip, Petey is a lachanophobic?

How should the tourists, the ones who have watched a lot of Japanese cartoons, feel when visiting Japan?

Are the Japanese really that mentally vulnerable?

When you slice the pie, you find out that there WAS a live animal inside :D I have to admit that it’s marginally less nonsensical than “Paris Syndrome”. Stupidity is not a syndrome.

Poor lady from work. She got her dream vacation to Paris. First day there broke her ankle. Why do women wear those stupid 4" heels.

My guess, the Japanese being excessively polite, run into the French, who are excessively rude.

Here is a big difference. Video showing Paris as one of the filthiest cities, and Tokyo as one of the cleanest: https://youtu.be/iYs3jNeQIS4

I have to agree with the Japanese tourists. We saved for years to go to Paris and was so disappointed we cut our trip short. Dirty streets, rude people and unless you can afford $100 meals, the food is not what it is advertised. It was like being in New York without English.

I stopped being a tourist long ago when I realized I was getting that feeling of disappointment just about everywhere I visited.

Its pretty much the same everywhere, pick a place and settle.

kinda like California’s once great cities now full of crap.

So, if you bake a “surprise pie” with a carrot inside for a lachanophobe, will they go into a vegetative state?

Is there an opposite, where you expect a place to suck and it impresses you?

what if the animal was asleep when the pie was cut?

“In 16th century England “surprise pies” where live animals would jump out when the pie was cut open were strangely popular among the upper class. All kinds of creatures could be placed inside the pies, including frogs, squirrels, foxes and, as one nursery rhyme says, “four-and-twenty blackbirds.” okay they had me until ‘foxes’

The only Veggies I “FEAR” are Eggplants, or "Creamed Corn And Green Bean Casserole…

Instant Nausea…Barf City….

Cant’ stand any cooked veggies either….

Love fresh Salads!

You would be in real trouble at if you suffered from crustumphobia and kotsyfiphobia and were presented with a blackbird pie.

Paris Syndrome – It’s not quite, “often,” that it happens. According to stats found on Wikipedia, 20 out of six million a year. It also mentions a similar syndrome, Jerusalem Syndrome, where one is susceptible to religious hallucinations after visiting there. And Canada-Shock syndrome which affected one Japanese tourist who was treated impolitely by what he thought was a native Torontonian but was really a visiting Bostonian who told him, “‘Ey wahtch whar yer goin’, ya frickin’ Kah-reahn!”’Kay, I made the last one up.