Sushi – How many here like and eat it.

I love Sushi. My friends think I’m nuts. They say all that it’s good for is bait. Curious who here likes it and who doesn’t.

They’re nuts! Sushi is great as long as you don’t buy it from a shelf.

Love sushi. When I worked Thailand for a month there was a sushi joint down the street from my hotel. Ate sushi every day and it was soooooo good and pretty cheap

fishthumper wrote:

I love Sushi. My friends think I’m nuts. They say all that it’s good for is bait. Curious who here likes it and who doesn’t.

I love sushi too. Freshwater sushi is a no no. The reason is parasites. Salmon is iffy. My GI doc has seen a couple patients that got some worm infection from eating salmon sushi. Albeit over 20 years.
If you want to try sushi for the first time, try Walu aka Hawaiian escolar. Very buttery and mild. It has a white-ish flesh. Might be a bit harder to find. That’s how I started 25 years ago.
DTW

Shrimp tempura is the gateway drug of Sushi.

We actually had sushi last night for dinner. A good sushi and wad of Wasabi is really hard to beat.
Now crappy sushi is just that.

Origami in uptown has very good sushi if that area ever works its self out I’d love to go there again.

Nope. I don’t do raw fish. When I went to Peru for work they tried to stuff Seviche down my throat for 10 days because it’s their native dish. Raw fish of an unknown source…pass.

Fishthumper, why do your friends think your nuts for eating/liking it? Certainly there is an elevated risk while consuming it but I wouldn’t call someone nuts for doing it.

Sushi is great. Sakana in Wayzata has awesome sushi if you haven’t been there

Ate it once, was ok, won’t go out of my way to get it though.

3 things/experiences that have affected my opinion of whether or not to eat Sushi:

1) Back in the 1990’s I remember a very rainy Canadian fishing trip where it rained so much there wasn’t any dry wood to make a fire to cook a shore lunch. But we tried and tried to find any wood that wasn’t completely soaked and “kind of” got a fire started. We cooked up our best shore lunch that was… well a tad raw like “Sushi.” Never before or after have I seen 4 men who could sh*t through a straw for the next 3 days.

2) I talked with an Infectious Disease doctor with Allina 3 years ago that also teaches physician residents a course on food safety at the U of MN. He said by the time he’s done with the course he has everyone convinced that anything short of using a blow torch on your food will eventually back fire. And sometimes in a big way –

3) A great family/friends of ours who eat Sushi and go to Sushi bars all the time… There are six of them and I can’t believe how many intestinal, IBS, parasite, Crohns-like diseases they all have. They’ve all been so sick so many times. And have been to multiple specialists, Mayo Clinic, etc. and cant believe what could possibly be causing all their problems ?!?

I’ll stick to the cooked stuff myself – – plus, I think it tastes better and you don’t have to kill it with spices, flavors, etc just to tolerate.

Nope…

Yes I like it, but Minnesota is way too far away from the ocean for my liking to be eating it anymore than once in a blue moon. I enjoy it when I’m in a coastal city (ie closer to the source).

Never would have dreamt of eating sushi til I married a fancy woman from Rochester. She changed this country boys backwoods thinking. At least about food

gimruis wrote:

Nope. I don’t do raw fish. When I went to Peru for work they tried to stuff Seviche down my throat for 10 days because it’s their native dish. Raw fish of an unknown source…pass.

Fishthumper, why do your friends think your nuts for eating/liking it? Certainly there is an elevated risk while consuming it but I wouldn’t call someone nuts for doing it.

If there is one thing I like even more than sushi it’s ceviche. Ceviche is not really raw fish. It’s just cooked in citrus acids and not with heat.

My friends are mostly hillbilly rednecks and they just can’t get past the thought of eating raw fish. They are not real cultured. I think of few of them have never even been out of Minnesota

I Love Sashimi! and I just found a place in Eagan that serves an awesome Poke bowl.

Most of it is frozen first to kill parasites. Also makes it just as fresh in MN as anywhere else.

I’ve been making my own at home, my kids love it! Any ocean fish sold in the states needs to be frozen first, so even at fancy sushi restaurants it’s not “fresh” , it’s all been frozen to be sold

Love it.
The company I worked for in 1990 had a Japanese corporate partner. When they came to the US each year for the national convention, they would take us out to a good Japanese restaurant. That’s how I was introduced to sushi. I actually like sashimi better.

In 2016 I went to Japan for 10 days to investigate a customer’s issue and had it every day. Awesome. The least favorite type of sushi is uni (sea urchin). More so the texture of it but also the taste.

FryDog62 wrote:

I’ll stick to the cooked stuff myself

This is me too. If it isn’t fully cooked to a safe level I ain’t eating it. I had an awful experience when I was younger consuming partially uncooked eggs that conatained salmonella. That was an episode I’ll never risk again

Love it, I poll kindergarten kids every year on favorite foods,have talked to hundreds of kiddos, sushi is trending of late nothing is near mack and cheese or cheese pizza though.

I really like sushi, cooked or raw version….yes, there is plenty of sushi that is fully cooked.

Reef W wrote:

Most of it is frozen first to kill parasites. Also makes it just as fresh in MN as anywhere else.

This right here. Actually, all sushi served in the US has been frozen first. Health standards require it.

Love sushi, although I didn’t figure that out until my late 20’s.

Anyone see the movie ‘Bombshell’? Its about Fox News. In one scene a secretary starts to eat her lunch at her desk & gets a scornful look from her boss, the secretary fires back: ‘Yes, I like sushi that doesn’t make me a liberal!

Walmart has Sushi.

I’m with FryDog and gimruis on this one.Nope ,never,ain’t happening.

I love most of it. Mackerel and unagi (eel) always seem too fishy to me. Had four rolls last week, yellow tail, salmon, red tuna, and spicy tuna. I ordered some miso soup and takoyaki octopus balls for an appetizer, too. Told my wife, who doesn’t eat fish at all, that each octopus has a pair between each of their eight legs. She had the fried rice and just rolled her eyes.

Morey’s makes it once a week. I should eat it more. Love it. Surprised me that I did. My wife’s grandpa started Morey’s. Whenever I would eat at their place, we had fish most of the time. I finally realized their name was on the label. I better eat sea food to pass the initiation.

People that don’t like sushi usually haven’t tried it. First, sushi is the rice preparation and doesn’t mean the fish isn’t cooked. For people who can’t wrap their mind around uncooked fish, they should try some thing cooked or made with veggies and then progress. I know some people can’t get over the texture though.

My guess is those who think uncooked fish is gross likely eat a damn near raw steak.

I don’t care for it. My wife and 7-year old love it. The seaweed is the part I don’t like. Different strokes for different folks.

Ralph Wiggum wrote:

I don’t care for it. My wife and 7-year old love it. The seaweed is the part I don’t like. Different strokes for different folks.

Most sushi has no seaweed.