From the Edge desk...
Cody Boland
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: The Edge
Hey, Western. It seems important to occasionally extol the virtues of Macomb. Sure, it may not have Chipotle, and the tap water is probably healthier in Mexico, but it does have something that makes for a quality and healthy meal. Macomb possesses Lin's Garden, a restaurant that has something which not every small town does.
Lin's Garden has sushi, immediately raising Macomb from a random uninteresting town to a place of snobbish college elite who understand that eating sushi doesn't just make a person sophisticated, it makes them automatically superior to a non-sushi eater.
Those who don't eat sushi, or "the inferior," as I call them, do not seem to understand the pure delight that comes from eating raw cuts of fish served with rice.
It seems that many people are afraid of sushi. They think it's only raw fish, which it's not. Or they think it will cause illness, which it won't. Some people are just intimidated by all types of sushi and the names they don't understand, which all relates back to my well thought out theory that non-sushi eaters are
savages.
Ingesting some nigri, sashimi, or perhaps a maki roll chock full of tomago is something that all people should appreciate. The most important reason for this is the fact that it tastes good, but there are other
benefits as well.
Sushi is a health food. The fish are generally low in fat, and contain very few additives. What you see is what you get - some slices of healthy fish, some rice and perhaps some vegetables like cucumber or avocado.
Any fears of it being dangerous are completely unjustified. Restaurants have to pass health inspections, so the likelihood of that bit of salmon causing painful death has about the same odds of the chicken at El Rancherito causing salmonella. And lets face it, that salmon probably has a far less likely chance of causing crazy diarrhea.
Besides the taste and health reasons why all people should ingest sushi, lets look into the culture of sushi.
Sushi comes from Japan, making it Asian, and as any person with a cliched tattoo can vouch for, Asian stuff is cool. Samurais: cool. Anime: dorky, but still cool. Sushi, being both Japanese and edible, makes for something that is doubly cool.
Now if that debate doesn't sway a person, I have no idea what will. All I can really do is thank the sushi gods that they transplanted a location of pure good like Lin's Garden across from a location of pure evil like Wal-Mart. Daoism is not lost on me.
Lin's Garden has sushi, immediately raising Macomb from a random uninteresting town to a place of snobbish college elite who understand that eating sushi doesn't just make a person sophisticated, it makes them automatically superior to a non-sushi eater.
Those who don't eat sushi, or "the inferior," as I call them, do not seem to understand the pure delight that comes from eating raw cuts of fish served with rice.
It seems that many people are afraid of sushi. They think it's only raw fish, which it's not. Or they think it will cause illness, which it won't. Some people are just intimidated by all types of sushi and the names they don't understand, which all relates back to my well thought out theory that non-sushi eaters are
savages.
Ingesting some nigri, sashimi, or perhaps a maki roll chock full of tomago is something that all people should appreciate. The most important reason for this is the fact that it tastes good, but there are other
benefits as well.
Sushi is a health food. The fish are generally low in fat, and contain very few additives. What you see is what you get - some slices of healthy fish, some rice and perhaps some vegetables like cucumber or avocado.
Any fears of it being dangerous are completely unjustified. Restaurants have to pass health inspections, so the likelihood of that bit of salmon causing painful death has about the same odds of the chicken at El Rancherito causing salmonella. And lets face it, that salmon probably has a far less likely chance of causing crazy diarrhea.
Besides the taste and health reasons why all people should ingest sushi, lets look into the culture of sushi.
Sushi comes from Japan, making it Asian, and as any person with a cliched tattoo can vouch for, Asian stuff is cool. Samurais: cool. Anime: dorky, but still cool. Sushi, being both Japanese and edible, makes for something that is doubly cool.
Now if that debate doesn't sway a person, I have no idea what will. All I can really do is thank the sushi gods that they transplanted a location of pure good like Lin's Garden across from a location of pure evil like Wal-Mart. Daoism is not lost on me.
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AJD
posted 4/29/09 @ 2:32 AM CST
Um...what about the mercury content of some fish? There are warnings for children and pregnant women especially to limit their intake of certain fish and sushi for this reason. (Continued…)
doc
posted 4/29/09 @ 12:27 PM CST
Wow...
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