'CEO of supercute': Hello Kitty turns 50

Hello Kitty is adorable however, just how she eats her favorite food, apples, without having a mouth has never been explained.

Didn't know Hello Kitty was that 'old'. Another cultural phenom Japan has given the world; along with Pac-Man, Pokémon, Godzilla, Shonen Knife, Transformers, SONY, karaoke, etc.

Hello Kitty is adorable however, just how she eats her favorite food, apples, without having a mouth has never been explained.

LOL. However, they give her and others mouths in the cartoon.

I've known Hello Kitty all my life, but I didn't realize that she is older than me!

I've always thought Kitty was basically a ripoff of Dick Bruna's Miffy, who was created in 1953. Sanrio did a rabbit version of Kitty in the 1970s, but withdrew it after Bruna sued.

It looks like there was a similar cartoon cat to Kitty that is even older.

https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/miffy-attacks-hello-kitty

I knew the whole Hello Kitty thing was off the hinge when I started seeing this pink Sanyo Hello Kitty vacuum cleaner fetching about double its normal price. Good grief !

Fortunately, my wife has any of those characters, a criteria when I was dating a long time ago

Another cultural phenom Japan has given the world; along with Pac-Man, Pokémon, Godzilla, Shonen Knife, Transformers, SONY, karaoke, etc

Not much of a list, is it really?