Comment on Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw

• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  dude that’s just sushi

  this is the biggest reach I’ve seen since…well a bunch of mayo criminals reached australia

  this entire thing just feels like settlers being butthurt that they a) have none of the history/tradition of the old world and b) unlike america, don’t even have any recently found pop culture relevance to offset the former

  There’s plenty of Aboriginal and even some trivial white Australian culture, claiming a certain shape of sushi is not that (not even Americans do this, and the few that do “Detroit pizza” are rightfully made fun of and bullied)

  Australian sushi is a thick hand roll made from half a standard sheet of nori. Its shape is distinct from Japanese temaki hand rolls, which are often cone-shaped, as well as from futomaki thick rolls, which are similar in shape but usually served sliced.

  so it’s literally just unsliced sushi lol. It’s not even like some characteristic ingredient, like with California Rolls and Philadelphia rolls using avocado/cream cheese (which are def not Japanese)

  dude that’s just sushi

  And that’s literally what we call it (or “hand rolls”). Until this article, I’ve never seen the term “Australian Sushi”. I can see how you’d market it that way in New York though, to make them novel/stand out.

  The guy writing the article is moderately famous in Australia as a Japanese-Australian TV personality.

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  • sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    there’s a type of brainworm unique to anglos where they have to be as special and different as possible when there’s LITERALLY NOTHING THERE

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  • PointAndClique@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    fwiw Adam Liaw has Malaysian-Chinese heritage not Japanese

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    • CloutAtlas@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think I remember Nina Oyama saying something similar, but in a “hey this is amusingly uniquely Australian, I’m Japanese and have been to America” not “this is cultural appropriation” way.

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• Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its also very clearly Japanese immigrants modifying their home dishes with local ingredients. Its Japanese-Australian food, not Australian food.

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  • sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Chicken Tikka Masala is BRITISH

    in 500 years of colonial trade, NOBODY in India has EVER put tomatoes into a Chicken curry! NEVER!

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• ElHexo@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  don’t even have any recently found pop culture relevance to offset the former

  Alas we failed to import sufficient numbers of slaves to steal culture off

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