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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
people prefer food in certain ways and cooks adapt to that, shocker. Food culture as a symbol of culture-wide moral purity is one of the weirder takes to come out of our current moment.