Every businessmen often have to exchange business cards. However, business cards usually sit in a drawer forever, forgotten and out of date. In Japan, there is quite a ritual about exchanging meishi or business cards, and one must always treat it with respect.
Arigatou Co., Ltd., a company that specializes in the sale of laser-etched food products, offers “Taberu Me”,an edible business cards printed on peanuts, walnuts, cashew nuts, red bean, black bean, grains of rice, and even pasta. Arigatou uses a high-grade CO2 laser engraver nicknamed “Shiawase-kun,” which can etch up to 700 characters per second on hard organic materials. A set of 150 Taberu Me cards costs 5,800 yen (around $50).
According to the company, Taberu means “eat” and "Me" could either be an abbreviation of meishi (”business card”) or “me” in English, in which case Taberu Me would be saying “Eat me” — a message you probably don’t want to convey to your new business partner at the first meeting.
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