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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #25 on: September 27, 2017, 09:10:20 PM »
No.

I've been bullied into trying it twice now. I will not be bullied again.

I also almost barfed lox all over a really fancy restaurant when I tried that.

As far as I'm concerned, anything that comes out of the ocean needs to be thoroughly cooks and served hot. The only seafood I'll eat cold is cocktail shrimp smothered in cocktail sauce, and even that I don't do much.

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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #26 on: September 27, 2017, 10:27:57 PM »
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But eating raw fish is cultural appropriation.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #27 on: September 28, 2017, 06:33:53 AM »

But eating raw fish is cultural appropriation.

Someday, someone is going to have to explain cultural appropriation to me.  I swear, back in the day we called it appreciation, not appropriation.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #28 on: September 28, 2017, 07:28:11 AM »

But eating raw fish is cultural appropriation.

Sorry, but that's incorrect.

Cultural appropriation would be if you, a lily white European American cis normal racist bastard, were to actually learn to make your own sushi. Then you'd be worse than Hitler.


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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2017, 08:33:51 AM »
Someday, someone is going to have to explain cultural appropriation to me.  I swear, back in the day we called it appreciation, not appropriation.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #30 on: September 28, 2017, 09:14:15 AM »
Sorry, but that's incorrect.

Cultural appropriation would be if you, a lily white European American cis normal racist bastard, were to actually learn to make your own sushi. Then you'd be worse than literally Hitler.


Oh, crap.  I bought a little bamboo rolling mat and some seaweed wrappers, and learned how to make sushi rice a few years ago.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #31 on: September 28, 2017, 09:45:01 AM »

Oh, crap.  I bought a little bamboo rolling mat and some seaweed wrappers, and learned how to make sushi rice a few years ago.

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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #32 on: September 28, 2017, 06:57:37 PM »
Sorry, but that's incorrect.

Cultural appropriation would be if you, a lily white European American cis normal racist bastard, were to actually learn to make your own sushi. Then you'd be worse than Hitler.


It's not as if there are rules to this.
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« Reply #33 on: September 28, 2017, 09:42:41 PM »
You repressor bastard!

The rules are exactly what the left says they are!

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« Reply #34 on: September 28, 2017, 09:59:33 PM »
The rules are exactly what the left says they are!
Until they arbitrarily change them!

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« Reply #35 on: September 29, 2017, 06:27:31 AM »
You repressor bastard!

The rules are exactly what the left says they are!

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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #37 on: October 02, 2017, 06:42:58 PM »
Love it, but with limits. The chewy bits are out, no octopus or squid. When I was a kid my aunt made traditional rolls to keep her Japanese husband fed, still like them, nori, rice, pickled vegetables, no dead fish. Pretty sure I was the only kid up in hillfolk public school with a pack of nori. We just distributed it at recess and pretended it was tobacco.

In a similar food vein one of my favorite snacks is dried cuttlefish, hard to find. Plenty in Guam, but not the big draw. The jap tourists spend metric buttloads of cash on American delicacies like beef jerky and spam. None of which they could take home, so I guess party in the hotel room.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #38 on: October 04, 2017, 04:57:53 AM »
Though in Santa Barbara, there was also the option of sushi hole in the walls that made just as good of stuff as the sit down places for much less. I used to go to one at the harbor once a week or so that was run by Koreans, ~$10 for a lunch special that filled you up.

I remember reading that before WWII, Japanese and their bentos(packed lunch) and Yatais(food carts) were able to provide healthier, tastier, and cheaper food in places like SanFran than their American counterparts with more traditional american foods.  A lot of it was that they didn't have a lot of heavily processed foods, making it cheaper as long as it could be fresh.

I know it's not the best, but I find one of the trays of "spicy roll" sushi hits the spot, isn't very expensive, and is really fast.  The "california roll" was developed in SanFran to better suit American tastes.  Etc...

Different tastes for different folks, I guess.

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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #39 on: October 04, 2017, 06:36:59 AM »
I've liked almost every type of sushi and sashimi that I have tried.  Even had whale sushi and horse sushi on one of my business trips to Japan years back.  Both were good.
Ama ebi with the fried shrimp head is one of my favorites, as is saba, or mackerel. Saba is typically lightly marinated in vinegar.
Maguro, or tuna sushi is quite good, especially if it is the fatty tuna kind. 
The only sushi I don't like is any that contains natto, a fermented soy paste.  Nasty stuff.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #40 on: October 04, 2017, 07:07:59 AM »
"Ama ebi with the fried shrimp head is one of my favorites..."

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Some years ago the woman I was dating and I went to an Asian bistro. She had spent time in the Peace Corps in Africa, so she was used to eating some strange stuff.

I asked for a bowl of tempura sweet shrimp heads. Out of the corner of my eye I could see a horrified look on the face of one of the women at the next table.

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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #41 on: October 04, 2017, 09:33:37 AM »
I will eat just about anything once if people around me are eating it and not dropping dead. I don’t normally bother with Sushi or Rolls anymore except when I’m sharing with others; just give me the Sashimi. I won’t eat Sea Urchin anymore; tried and tried, but I just don’t like it. Pretty everything else on the menu at a Sushi place is fair game.


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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #42 on: October 04, 2017, 06:36:12 PM »
I will eat just about anything once if people around me are eating it and not dropping dead. I don’t normally bother with Sushi or Rolls anymore except when I’m sharing with others; just give me the Sashimi. I won’t eat Sea Urchin anymore; tried and tried, but I just don’t like it. Pretty everything else on the menu at a Sushi place is fair game.

Sea Urchin, or Uni, is difficult for a lot of folks, whether it's the taste, texture, or both. For some it's an acquired taste.  Freshness is very important for the fish in sushi, and especially so with uni.  If it's not fresh, it can be very off-putting.
I like uni myself, though it took a time or two eating it to get past the texture. Now I don't even think about it.  I have uni almost every time I go to a decent sushi restaurant.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #43 on: October 04, 2017, 07:49:59 PM »
Sea Urchin, or Uni, is difficult for a lot of folks, whether it's the taste, texture, or both. For some it's an acquired taste.  Freshness is very important for the fish in sushi, and especially so with uni.  If it's not fresh, it can be very off-putting.
I like uni myself, though it took a time or two eating it to get past the texture. Now I don't even think about it.  I have uni almost every time I go to a decent sushi restaurant.

I've always don uni as uni shooters -- uni and raw quail egg with ponzu, in a glass of sake. They are pretty darn good that way. :)
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #44 on: October 04, 2017, 08:40:52 PM »
We actually have some edible grocery store sushi here. The guy makes it fresh there in the store and if bought at the right time, it's downright passable and inexpensive! I'm sure sushi snobs would disagree but to this boy's pallet, it'll do in a pinch.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #45 on: October 04, 2017, 10:14:44 PM »
I've always don uni as uni shooters -- uni and raw quail egg with ponzu, in a glass of sake. They are pretty darn good that way. :)

I've never heard of that combination.  Sounds pretty good.
I've used ponzu, or ajipon, for cooking at home.  Good stuff.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #46 on: October 04, 2017, 11:58:04 PM »
We actually have some edible grocery store sushi here. The guy makes it fresh there in the store and if bought at the right time, it's downright passable and inexpensive! I'm sure sushi snobs would disagree but to this boy's pallet, it'll do in a pinch.

We have the same in the commissary here. We get a roll made with carrots, cucumber and cream cheese made up. Not too bad, the wife likes it.

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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #47 on: October 05, 2017, 07:22:28 AM »
"Sea Urchin, or Uni, is difficult for a lot of folks, whether it's the taste, texture, or both."

For me, it's both taste and texture.

If it were just texture, I might be able to soldier through it, but combine the two? Nope.
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Re: Sushi, yes or no?
« Reply #48 on: October 05, 2017, 07:24:56 AM »
We actually have some edible grocery store sushi here. The guy makes it fresh there in the store and if bought at the right time, it's downright passable and inexpensive! I'm sure sushi snobs would disagree but to this boy's pallet, it'll do in a pinch.

The building I worked at downtown in DC had a pretty decent cafeteria, and part of it was, according to my boss, a pretty good sushi bar.

I never tried it because it was so darned expensive.
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