Grad koji stavlja zlato na sladoled

Ovaj sladoled je pravo zlato. Pošalji ovo prijatelju koji voli slatko. U Japanu postoji stari grad Kanazawa. Kupiš običan meki sladoled ondje, a onda ga netko omota cijelim listom zlata.

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.

Zlato se kuje dok ne postane vrlo tanko. Tanje je od dlake. Miče se od najmanjeg daška vjetra, pa radnici moraju biti spori i tihi i ne smiju disati blizu njega. Gotovo sve zlatne listiće u Japanu prave u ovom jednom gradu, i ljudi ih ovdje prave već više od četiristo godina.

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.

Možeš ga pojesti. Zlato je sigurno, i skoro nema okus. Zato sladoled ima okus sladoleda. Samo izgleda kao blago. Ljudi ga podignu, svjetlost ga pogodi, i cijela ulica se okrene pogledati. Onda ga jedu presporo, ili vjetar to pronađe, i zlato sklizne na cestu, i svi se smiju.

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.