@Quincy, the Japanese have some wicked idioms.
This is funny... These folks have a pretty nasty 'caste' system. Maybe even worse than the British.
So someone uses this expression, "Emo kusai" (literally, potato stink), referring to farmers.
While this may be a real slang term for a 'lower class' farmer-type, TRULY, the Japanese people lack the enzyme to digest potatoes, so eating the little tubers gives them intestinal gas--they fart!
This is a lot like Mexican/hispanics have the enzymes to digest beans, while most caucasions don't; Mexicans don't fart, but the whities do! (Remember that scene from the movie, "Blazing Saddels") Too funny.
This whole thread is just cracking me up. I have a ton more, but not enough time.
Best!
Kim