Byen der lægger guld på is

Denne is er ægte guld. Send dette til din ven med en sød tand. I Japan ligger en gammel by der hedder Kanazawa. Du køber en helt almindelig softice der, og så pakker nogen et helt ark guld rundt om den.

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.

Guldet bliver hamret ud til det er meget tyndt. Det er tyndere end et hår. Det bevæger sig ved den mindste vindpust, så arbejderne skal være langsomme og stille og kan ikke ånde tæt på det. Næsten alt bladguld i Japan bliver lavet i denne ene by, og folk har lavet det her i mere end fire hundrede år.

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.

Du kan spise det. Guld er ufarligt, og det smager næsten ingenting. Så isen smager som is. Den ligner bare skat. Folk holder den op, lyset rammer den, og hele gaden vender sig om for at se. Så spiser de den for langsomt, eller vinden finder den, og guldet glider af ned på vejen, og alle griner.

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.