Sushi's Secret: Why We Get Hooked On Raw Fish

NPR ^ | May 23, 2014 | MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF

[driftdiver]

Have to agree with you. Publix sushi is safer than most though.

[RandallFlagg]

Muscles that depend on oxygen tend to be red, while those that don't are white.

Are they suggesting that white muscles don't need oxygen?

[discostu]

We had an Albertsons we could get OK sushi at. Largely because the sushi lady took a liking to my wife, if she saw her looking at the tray she’d come in with the “oh no, no, you wait, I make special”. Sadly she moved on.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Sushi is not raw fish. Sashimi is raw fish.

[Veto!]

I can do tuna ans salmon, but I draw the line at eel

My fave sushi is "Unagi," cooked eel with a mild sweetish sauce and little bit of cucumber. Try it, you'll like it.

Eel is always cooked for sushi, so it's always free of the grungies that are sometimes found in raw sushi.

[libertarian27]

Sushi is the Rice
Sashimi is the Fish

I get into arguments with people who think the sushi is the fish...:)

[TomGuy]

Similar here. No cookee, no eatee.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Sushi (すし, 寿司, 鮨?) is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice (鮨飯 sushi-meshi?) combined with other ingredients (ネタ neta?), seafood, vegetables and sometimes tropical fruits. Ingredients and forms of sushi presentation vary widely, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is rice (also referred to as shari (しゃり?) or sumeshi (酢飯?)).

[tflabo]

A friend of mine calls it ‘squishy’.....well when I started working for a Japanese Corp. eating sushi was just par for the course. Really like it though-—as long as its fresh and done right. I loves me some dragon and rainbow sushi rolls.

[latina4dubya]

Conceptually very simple, with a wide variety of flavors, and servings are innately small which lets you try a lot of different stuff in one trip. Also very good social food.

yes--all of those things... and it is fresh and clean and pretty too...

[latina4dubya]

Out here on the farm, we call this bait...

really? even salmon and tuna?

[ican'tbelieveit]

So... what I am taking away from this is being lazy is good.

[C. Edmund Wright]

You need to get off the farm more. Sushi is very good for you the way farm fresh eggs and home grown veggies are.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Sushi is also the general term for the entire genre of sishimi, ngiri, sushi, etc...

[ican'tbelieveit]

Around here several of the sushi places deep fry salmon and cream cheese roll in a tempura batter.

[dr_lew]

Sushi (すし, 寿司, 鮨?)

I was just looking this up in my several Japanese dictionaries but could not find the kanji, 寿司 , which is the most common form.

Looking online, I find the explanation that this is just a fancy phonetic form, SU SHI, or すし in the phonetic hiragana syllabary, and without a semantic basis, except the first character has propitious intimations of good luck, etc. so it is essentially a marketing creation.

The kanji, 鮨 , has the meaning of "delicious fish".

[reformedliberal]

The best fish ever was fresh mahi-mahi sashimi prepared by a trained Japanese sushi chef within hours after it was caught. I was totally not prepared to eat it, let alone like it. It was heavenly and tasted exactly like rare beef tenderloin.

By the way, the chef’s wife was a lab tech who worked with infectious diseases and she would not have eaten it or encouraged others to do so if she was the least bit concerned.

I prefer sashimi to sushi. Just not that into the nori.

[Secret Agent Man]

we can’t get enough parasites?

[C. Edmund Wright]

I have a problem with the thesis of this….most fish are far stronger pound for pound than humans - so this soft muscle lazy thing to me does not make sense.

[ConservingFreedom]

In general, the more a muscle works, the tougher, more sinuous it gets

Then I'd make a tender meal.