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During the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, Japan has gotten pretty creative with social distancing techniques such as using plushies and plastic barriers to keep people safely apart. Having a hard time measuring your distance? There are even helpful posters showing social distancing in Japanese terms, using tatami mats or even tuna.
If you just can't visual that crucial 2m of space without a physical object, this bakery in the city of Miyazaki (of Miyazaki prefecture) has created extra-long social distancing French baguettes. Riviere Pain's special social distancing baguettes measure about one metre in length, so with two baguettes – one for you and one for your friend – you'll be able to check you're standing a safe 2 metres apart. Provided you can stop yourselves from munching on the bread, that is.
Not in Miyazaki? No worries. The baguettes are available online within Japan here, and there's even free shipping if you're ordering from Tokyo. An order includes two 1-metre long baguettes for ¥3,500, plus some helpful instructions on how to eat the unusually long piece of bread.
If you're running short on storage space, each order also comes with a template for a sword rack which you can trace onto some cardboard and cut out to hold your lengthy baguettes. How handy is that?
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