This summer is dangerously hot in Japan. Just look what the heat did to this plastic matcha latte!
In Japanese, plastic food is typically found outside many restaurants to show what’s on the menu. Called “shokuhin sanpuru” (食品サンプル), the plastic food is made from different resins and colored to look real.
The plastic matcha latte in the above photo was made from silicone and vinyl chloride, which began melting in a Nagoya cafe display case due to intense summer heat
今日一番の衝撃はこれかな。食品サンプル溶けるｗ pic.twitter.com/Bt3GbbmPlF
— しげさん (@sigesan213) August 4, 2018
そうだね昨日撮ったかわいそうな食品サンプルも集中線つけてあげなきゃいけなかったよ pic.twitter.com/6f0au30oAD
— なな🦋7go220 (@7go_220) August 5, 2018
食品サンプルが熱中症ヤバイwww#熱中症 #食品サンプル #水分補給はしっかり #気をつけよう #そろそろ火星に引っ越そうかな pic.twitter.com/rl9WRB0FyM
— 功ノ輔 (@kounosuke_koo) August 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1025543363049676800
大須からオアシスへ浴衣着てお祭りに行ってきました(*´ω`*)コスプレした人いっぱい！！Twitterで話題になってたオアシス21のカフェの暑さで溶けた食品サンプル(￣▽￣;) pic.twitter.com/c22uKuG1Hk
— トトロん (@morningallergic) August 5, 2018
This made the national news in Japan
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1026436166894022656
And even appeared on television as an indication of just how hot this summer is.
According to NHK and NetGeek, the temperature inside the plastic food’s display case reached around 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit), and the matcha latte samples melted during a two-day stretch in which it was nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Nagoya.
While the other plastic food appears to have held up, things weren’t helped by the fact that the cafe is located in a glass-roofed shopping area
溶けた食品サンプルを見に観光しに来ました。 pic.twitter.com/PTO3DyS36L
— 八神宗知 (@yagamisouchi) August 6, 2018
Looks like the cafe figured out a quick fix
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