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they interviewed the chef who invented california roll. He put the rice on the outside because his customers found seaweed too scary.
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I was reading about this earlier today, sushi in the States is assembled rice-side-out because back in the day, Americans would peel off the nori before eating because seaweed was too scary for them. Absurd.
The lack of spices in Japanese food suggests Japanese are the white people of Asia
Further down the thread, he specifies that he's referring to only americanized sushi rolls, "Boston, California, Philadelphia, etc".
Yeah, white people love the americanized versions of foods from other countries. The cuisine has been adapted for the american taste.
Short cooking times + a shit ton of sugar and fat I'm guessing?
The reason Americans are so fat and crave sweet things is because back in the 70s the government decided fats were bad and took fat out of everything and replaced it with sugar. You can choose to believe they were either well meaning idiots or it was a giveaway to big ag corn producers.
Also, ethnic cuisines in other countries were often adapted to what was cheap and available to people where they were living. Chinese cuisine in Portugal is different from Chinese cuisine in Argentina or the states. The reason Chinese cuisine in the US has diverged so far from its origins, compared to Indian is because Chinese people have been in North America in large numbers for far longer than people from India have. Many Chinese families have been in the US since long before it was possible to ship perishable goods across the Pacific Ocean. You can even see the same process play out with traditional mayo cuisines. The American association of corned beef with Irish immigrants is a good example of this phenomenon. Irish immigrants in New York often lived in proximity to Jewish neighborhoods. They would purchase corned beef from their Jewish neighbors. You couldn't find corned beef and cabbage on a pub menu anywhere in Ireland 30 years ago, but because so many Americans who would visit were perplexed that it wasn't available pub owners put it on the menu for the tourists.
My folks still believe this propaganda
My folks are dead set on the idea that salt is bad for you, and use the absolute minimum in everything, and I've since come to realize since cooking on my own I'm not really picky my mom just kinda sucks at cooking
if somebody is worried about too much salt consumption it tastes stronger with just a dash on the food before eating.
As an aside it's insane that we can just do that now
Did the American government even think the good kind of fat was bad?