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I want to punch the guy who wrote in wikipedia about Imperial Japanese Army Rations where it reads they “make sushi in the field”. (sushi kit ration BS) The closest sushi-like food their armies ever eat was that rice ball in leaves. but it’s not sushi
Not fair Linfamy. Every time I watch one of your videos lately I'm saddened by the lack of good sushi in my area. You must send me good sushi to atone.
"I'm sorry, sir, but the sushi's heart rate has stopped. It is dead." "Doctor, I'd like to be alone with the sushi for a minute." "Are you going to eat it?" "...........Yes."
My dad and his family lived in the Japanese sumer Palace after WW2 during the occupation. He had sushi at a young age and taught some of the other kids how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
@@Linfamy God, if you had introduced them to Avocado or tomatoes, you might have changed history/ Even Corn. Maybe Canned American Beef. You might have even invented Japanese Sloppy Jones
I'm opening a sushi restaurant with a revolutionary new concept: build-your-own-sushi! You bring the ingredients, cook whichever need to be cooked, and you assemble the sushi yourself.
I've heard it's hard to get the firmness right for sushi... cant be too firm nor too loose. Maybe do a genghis-grill-style restaurant where you pick all your ingredients and bring them to the chef, then the chef finishes things up for you by putting it all together? Just an idea.
The story about nigiri sushi shrinking during the post-WWII hard times might explain why "Musubi" in Hawaii are huge compared to nigiri sushi. There is about a cup of rice wrapped in nori, with some combinations of egg, spam, or chicken cutlet. I used to eat them all the time when I lived in Hawaii.
I like Inari sushi, I like that sweet taste. But speaking of sushi, I’m still at a loss of words that a few idiots basically took down the whole conveyor belt sushi business by licking on sushi and soy sauce bottle, and at a even strong loss of words when I realise that episode will probably get written down in the history of sushi.
@@W4iteFlame Well, it’s called Sushiro licking incident, basically a high school student licked the utensils and sushi in a Sushiro branch in Gifu, then put the sushi back onto the conveyer belt, all while making a video out of it. The stock price of Sushiro took a heavy blow, and conveyer belt sushi restaurants are now changing to stuff like delivering sushi only after receiving orders, etc.
I remember in the 1980's a sushi place in Orange County, CA had to shut down its conveyor belt after some little kid lost his fingertip. We happened to walk in just as some officials were tearing the belt apart to see if they could find the bit of finger so it could be sewn back on. Fun times.
The level of comedy with historical fact is amazing, makes for one of the best videos unlike the boring monotone 100% cold factual videos or the too much try hard education videos that come off as so comedic you can't trust the information. I'm def going to show these to any friends I can until they get sick of it 😊
I never clicked so fast on a video before lol 🍣🍱 This is another part of sushi history that I have heard before. It’s interesting how people can be creative when a government tries to ban things.
@@HisameArtwork Ah, that's why he understands some of the difficulty with some Japanese pronunciation. And says it in way more friendly to non-native speakers. Unintentionally or otherwise.
I had heard that Linfamy was 1/8 Zinc, 3/4 Vietnamese, 5/16 Ursus Arctos Middendorffi, 1/2 Diatomaceous Earth and related to Kevin Bacon by 5 degrees Kelvin.
Due to the pandamic train sushi changed. Some places put the food in plastic domes to protect it while it circulates while others don't even have food on there, just recommendations for you to order and the food is sent to your stall directly.
It might be a regional thing but in the UK I've only ever seen conveyor belt sushi under little domes, since long before the pandemic. Perhaps it's to do with food hygiene law or something
I love how your art style has improved since i first started watching you! The shading, the poses, the lineart, everything looks so good! Glad to be able to watch your progress ^^
I was introduced to sushi about 40 years ago, and to this day I maintain that there are certain fish that can only be properly enjoyed as sushi or sashimi; for me, cooking wrecks the flavour of those noble fish.
This reminds me of the beef both sides of my family have as to who makes a better tamale. My dad most definitely is the tamalekage if I’m being honest.
Check out how Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church was responsible for developing the sushi market in the U.S. (and maybe other countries around the world)
Because Korean diasporas have 20-years head start in know-hows of how to do retails overseas and sell to Westerners, something Japanese don't really have during the 80-90's Bubble Era? Something that Moon's Church took advantages to the full?
@@thanakonpraepanich4284 I think it was due to a combination of Japanese grit for excellence, American ingenuity, and Korean aggressive brow beating.... Hopefully Linfamy can provide more light. BTW, the sushi market was being developed in the 80s, in the U.S. Govt approval, refrigeration, speed, distribution, marketing, etc.
My husband won’t eat anything that has feet. Fins, tentacles or other scuttle-y parts don’t count, therefore we eat a lot of seafood. So far, the best sushi we’ve had in Canada is in Vancouver. Top of our bucket-list is an onsen tour across Japan, eating at the best local ramen places for lunch, and sushi for dinner. Joke’s on whichever credit card company approves me once I’m ready to commit a major felony because I can’t afford an old folks home.
😅 sushi is amazing and I don’t mind it cheap. Give me a good hole in the wall with an all you can eat menu (phrasing 🤣 I know) at a decent price and I’ll stuff myself full of double the value… or at least try. I can eat many a cut roll by myself in one sitting and use to attempt one of everything until the menu’s got bigger. Thank you for making these videos 😊, I love learning about the history of sushi and it’s many beautiful forms.
It has always interested me how different meals, especially meals created out of necessity and poverty, wound up becoming popular and, in some cases, "elevated" (co-opted) by rich people. I imagine that a big boom in the popularity of sushi in America would have been due to GIs coming home and telling all of their friends about these weird little rice rolls with pieces of raw seafood on them that they had when they were overseas in Japan. I'm sure a lot of Americans were not too keen on the idea, especially since temperature control for food was a relatively new thing, but one must never underestimate the power of a bunch of guys getting drunk together and seeing who can eat the spiciest/weirdest food. Those guys could be poor, middle class or even rich, but it would not matter because, in the end, alcohol makes us all classless.
What's interesting is that functionally similar food/drinks can end up on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum. Sake is functionally the same as Handia, a rice beer originating in Central Eastern India. And yet, Sake is celebrated as a drink for the upper class while Handia is unknown outside of India and known as a cheap, lower-class, almost moonshine-level drink within India.
Was going through the work of Sakamoto Ryuichi and came across the ending song for The Seven Samurai. Swore that I heard the Chinese Erhu only to find that the Kokyu sounds basically the same... Inspiration for upcoming videos? Heck, even the artist himself, and everyone else in the industry. It's hard to grasp since it's not really history yet so the ends are hard to grasp, but that Japanese take on classical music is worth a video itself. When you hear classical but you know it's Japanese.
I have to take a break from drinking coffee or eating when watching your videos. Otherwise the coffee or food ends up on the screen. You a an excellent exquisite typ of ambush humour. Buddha says: _"Excellent exquisite typ of ambush humour is hard to find. When you come across it, enjoy it like your life depends on it."_
My hands can be 3 temperatures. Icicles, boiling hot or normal. Normal is warm. There’s subcategories like I can have cold and clammy hands. And dry and boiling hands. My hands are usually dry and warm. I love eating sushi. The sushi I will eat is tuna, salmon and yellowtail sushi and avocado sushi. I’m Jewish so only those 3 fish. I’m either unfamiliar with the fish or it’s not Kosher, so. I also like salmon/avocado sushi.
Hey Linfamy, I’ve been loving your videos. Would you be interested in doing one about the video game Sekiro? There’s a ton of Buddhist and Shinto imagery, as well as reference to both mythical and historical Japanese figures, that are lost on western players such as myself. Not sure if this is gauche or whatever, but I’d be happy to donate to support the video as I’m sure the community would get a lot out of it. Either way thanks for the great content
Just wondering: were there any misunderstandings that introduced a new food to the Japanese after WW2? As here in Germany we got accidentally sent a enormous amount of Mais. After the first hunger winter the Americans asked German representatives what our people needed the most and they responded with "Korn" (German: grains) which the Americans understood as "corn". Hence we got shipped tons of Mais and people ended up eating mais-bread and cakes for quite a while
Lin sama, my friend's son just passed in a car accident. I've always known sushi and sake are for funerals. I'd appreciate anyone that has advice on funeral sushi. Really 🙏
The black market was how the Yakuza became to be so prominent and Powerful. Yakuza actually made the shortages worse because they bought up so much of the Surplus that they artificially created shortages so they could charge more.
Well, the government storehouse materials that went to the blackmarket through the Yakuza (some via military personnel) to be sold at a markup were mentioned. Lot of US aid got skimmed that way too (with collusion from US personnel getting kickbacks). As I understand it, ordinary businesses also directed their their product to the black market, as farmers did with some of what they grew. That's a risk with price controls being too strict - producers won't produce for the market. But there was, as acknowledged in the video, a lot of straight up theft that benefitted black marketers, and harmed everyone else. But people gotta buy. I've read a paper that had some black market prices. It said the Bank of Japan started collected an index of Black Market prices in Japan in September 1945 (collected monthly). I wish I could it find in a free, easily accessible place in English. I like that sort of data.
Using a picture of a salmon sushi while these weren't a thing until the Norwegians made them to sell salmon surplus to Japan in the 1960ies isn't really the most relevant thing though
