# Sushi is... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356 "2016-02-17T17:42:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/21 "2016-02-17T19:22:41Z")
Very delicious! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/22 "2016-02-17T19:30:25Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > It smells great, it looks pretty, but…mouth feel. Ugh. Cook it and I’ll eat it by the plateful. > > I can’t do an oyster bar, either. Same reason. The mouth feel of raw seafood. Some sushi contains cooked seafood, like shrimp or lobster. I like the raw tuna and salmon, but there are some things I shy away from, like eel. I’m a semi-picky sushi eater, but what I do eat, I love. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/23 "2016-02-17T19:33:23Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Some sushi contains cooked seafood, like shrimp or lobster. > > I like the raw tuna and salmon, but there are some things I shy away from, like eel. > > I’m a semi-picky sushi eater, but what I do eat, I love. I recently had some so-called vegetarian sushi, made with all veggies, no fish. It was quite good. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/24 "2016-02-17T19:36:40Z")
I don’t like it. For one thing, I can’t stand seaweed. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/25 "2016-02-17T19:39:42Z")
I think it’s fine, I don’t have any real problem with it… but I also find it a bit boring. Add wasabi (which I do like), and that’s all you can taste, leave it off, and there’s not much of anything else, just generic protein on rice. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/26 "2016-02-17T19:55:07Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Yes, I’m doing this. I’m making only two, wildly general, “black and white”, choices with no happy medium. I was in a band once. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were okay. -Mitch Hedberg ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/27 "2016-02-17T20:06:20Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > Word to this. It disgusts me on every level - taste, texture and smell. Factor in the scavenger/sea bug aspect and I honestly can’t see how anyone eats anything that lives in water. > > Sushi is an elaborate practical joke played on the world by the Japanese. Good on you, Japan, but you didn’t get _me_. _shrug_. More for people with taste. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/28 "2016-02-17T20:13:22Z")
I could happily eat sushi every day. I love it. Cooking animal protein is a travesty, in general. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/29 "2016-02-17T20:14:08Z")
It’s one of my great failures as a human being who loves food and lives in a foodie area, that I do not like sushi. Literally every single friend and family member I know loves the stuff. I am the lone exception and it makes me sad. I _want_ to like it - I just can’t develop a taste for it no matter how much I try or how fresh it is ( including straight off the boat ). Raw meat of any sort simply doesn’t work for me. It genuinely fills me with woe. Thankfully I can get by on the bog standard teriyaki, gyoza, miso soup and tempura if I absolutely must visit a Japanese restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/30 "2016-02-17T20:14:20Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#): > > I recently had some so-called vegetarian sushi, made with all veggies, no fish. It was quite good. Sushi can absolutely be vegetarian. There need not be anything “so-called” about it. The common ingredient across sushis is the vinegared rice. I"ve heard it said that one of the tests of a great sushi chef is their tamago nigiri (which is an egg omelet sushi.) Sometimes, though, that is not vegetarian, as the egg part may contain dashi, a broth that has dried fish in it. And seaweed usually isn’t part of sushi, unless you’re doing maki rolls (and, well, sometime it is used to affix the topping to nigiri.) Love sushi, though I generally skip the wasabi and even soy, except in rolls, as it tends to obliterate the taste for me. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/31 "2016-02-17T20:22:09Z")
Sushi, sashimi, seafood in general, it’s all utterly revolting, but particularly the former. I’ve had a couple versions of sushi that I could eat and not find repulsive, but it still has the issue of texture and smell. It doesn’t matter what they do to it, that fishy smell and taste just utterly overwhelms everything else. And I have a good palette, I can taste subtle flavors in most other foods, but just not in the presence of anything out of the ocean. And the texture doesn’t help. When people say I haven’t had it prepared well, I’ve given it several shots, once even from a world-renowned chef here, the others said it was the best sushi they’d ever had, and the best I can say is that it was the least revolting I’ve ever had. Frankly, I’m glad I don’t like it, it’s expensive as hell for such a small amount. If I go to a Japanese restaurant, I’d much rather have something off the hibachi, SO damn good, than sushi. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/32 "2016-02-17T20:30:53Z")
There’s a place not too far from the office that makes a great chirashi bowl. I think I posted about it. Too bad I only come into the office twice a week. Not getting the comments on the texture. Good maguro or toro just melts in your mouth! _drool_ ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/33 "2016-02-17T20:38:21Z")
Should have had an option for ‘Meh’. I can take it or leave it. I find it neither disgusting nor delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/34 "2016-02-17T20:53:19Z")
Love the raw fishies. Sushi creation is an art. Also mollusks, plain with a squeeze of lemon, at the raw bar. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/35 "2016-02-17T20:57:12Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think it’s fine, I don’t have any real problem with it… but I also find it a bit boring. Add wasabi (which I do like), and that’s all you can taste, leave it off, and there’s not much of anything else, just generic protein on rice. This. Not bad as a medium for a wasabi/soy sauce solution, otherwise edible but pretty meh by itself. I’ll eat it with friends a few times a year, but not something I ever seek out. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/36 "2016-02-17T21:06:02Z")
Did not vote. Actually good sushi is delicious. Most of the “sushi” we get over here in the US these days disappointing at best. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/37 "2016-02-17T21:12:09Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > Most of the “sushi” we get over here in the US these days disappointing at best. I never eat sushi (or order seafood, really) unless I can hit an ocean by throwing a rock. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/38 "2016-02-17T21:34:38Z")
I am not a fan of sushi rice or seafood, so I don’t eat sushi in any incarnation. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/39 "2016-02-17T22:06:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Bait. As I get older, I learned that bait is pretty good – sushi, clams, calamari. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356/40 "2016-02-17T22:11:58Z")
Can’t vote with those choices. Sushi is “meh”. For me it comes in somewhere between “edible” and “palatable”, occasionally nosing up into “tasty”. If you invite me over for sushi I’ll come, for the company and socialization, and I’ll eat the food. But left to my own devices I’d pick something else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sushi-is/746356.md?page=3)