This t-shirt baffles me.

Where did it come from? What does it mean? Who designed it?

I can only answer one of these – I feel so inadequate.

I won this t-shirt in a Kyoto McDonald’s late one evening simply by ordering a burger, scratching a ticket and handing said ticket (which had Japanese all over it, declaring what I can only now assume to be, “winner!!!” or something of the like) to the cashier who then, much to my confusion, handed me over this bright pink thing which has taken up permanent residence in my gym clothing wardrobe.

The situation itself was confusing enough, though my excitement at the time overshadowed the truth of the situation – the fact that I STILL don’t get it.

@designtavern and myself made many guesses – perhaps it was a political statement about the global recession? Or maybe, given that it is a Quarter Pounder marketing campaign (according to a little black square down the bottom of the shirt), perhaps the ‘stock’ to which they refer is, in fact, cattle? In which case, the t-shirt still makes little sense because if one hadn’t been trading stock, then where do the quarter pounders come from??? And why is a Japanese t-shirt written in BIG BOLD ENGLISH if the English makes no sense??

Perhaps I should take it to my Japanese teacher and see if she’s able to make any sense of it. Though that would probably ruin all the fun and I’m not even sure if it’s a language barrier, so much as something…else.

Hmm…

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