First, the salmon and tuna fisheries are not sustainable. The bluefin tuna was on IUCN endangered list before it got controversially taken off the list in 2021 due to lobby from the fishing industry. Most salmon and tuna are “farmed” aquaculture. These aquaculture have really high environmental impact, as they dump a lot of toxic waste and antibiotics into ocean. They are also breeding ground for diseases that impact natural wild salmon and tuna population. Finally, they have adverse affects on traditional low impact, and often Native-owned fisheries.
Sushi is also incredibly BORING. It’s just raw fish on rice with no seasonings except for soy sauce and wasabi. All these environmental waste and destruction for a texture. Go eat some stir fry vegetables, tofu, and beans with actual seasonings. The non-boring sushi are all abominations of mayonaise, sweet soy sauce, and ultraprocessed fish paste like surimi made to cater to western burgereich palate. Vegetarian and vegan sushi options suck, they are just raw cucumbers and avocado on rice with these same abominations of mayonaise and ultraprocessed condiments. Non-japanese people who unironically enjoy sushi are all be pretentious, annoying shitlib, search your feelings Luke you know it’s true. Learn to cook real warm food with proper seasonings like actual humans, or at least appreciate food that takes actual artisanal skills to make like hand made dumplings and noodles. I’ve had enough of seeing people eat sushi, all these people should be shamed. Walahi when the proletarian Revolution came, we should issue a fatwa to make eating raw fish haram.
Points I agree with as a non-sushi eater:
Regarding point 2: I used to be an annoying enough shitlib myself to watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and I remember a bit in the 2021 episode about homelessness: John Oliver brought up NIMBYs in Claremont, Tovaangar rejecting affordable housing for homeless people as an example; and one of the Claremont residents interviewed was like, “How is that [an influx of formerly homeless people] going to impact crime? How is that going to impact the businesses out here? If they’re low income, are they going to be spending money at the sushi place, or, y’know, or not?” — and John was like, “Oh No! Not The Sushi Place™!!” — and I still hear that in my head every time I think about Western sushi, especially sushi culture in suburban Seppoland: People deathly afraid of homeless people spoiling their forgettable isolated plastic suburban mcmansion hellscape’s “”“image”“” as a “”“refined”“” and “”““multicultural””" place.
Points I’d bring up:
Points I disagree with:
I disagree with this because I don’t think it’s good to judge culinary traditions, even if we don’t like the people who eat it. But I’m also assuming this post is mainly made in jest anyways.
There’s nothing wrong with fusion food. Noone can seriously argue that Pho is not infinitely better with jalapeno slices. I’m saying mayo slathered “modern” fusion sushi with potato chip flake is an abomination. Also traditional sushi is not supposed to be cold, it is supposed to be room temperature. This brings up another environmental disaster needed to accommodate the modern sushi industrial complex - refrigeration.
Refrigeration is a fair point to make. I had assumed that by “cold” you actually meant room temperature. However, my point about Hashtag No Food An Abomination still stands! You have listed various ingredients that you find abominable when put on sushi, but no explanation as to why they are abominable, aside from personal preference (and I don’t disagree that it sounds repulsive).
I mention this because I put “Burgerlanders have an unrefined palate” jokes on the same shelf as “white woman” jokes, i.e. that the jokes oftentimes come from a place of multiple (often internalized) prejudice, but slip past people’s defenses and come across as “woke” because they’re framed as if they’re punching up. I don’t necessarily want to be the fun police telling people that they can’t make jokes about Yankees eating slop, but I do want people to question what they see as “unrefined” or “abominable” food to begin with, and why they think of food in those terms.
I never really thought about it, because sushi is basically just one step above fast food over here, but there really are people who think sushi is some kind of exotic fancy dish that shows how cultured they are for eating it.