ElGroucho posted:

Why does sushi have all these goddamn rules? Nobody at the mexican place is going to hassle you if you break apart your enchilada, pour all the salsa in, then cut it up with a knife to baby sized portions, and then wrap a tortilla around that. All of the items are there for you, use none or all of them, who gives a poo poo?

I've heard that if you put the knife a certain way on a Japanese plate, you are insulting them by telling them to kill themselves. Also, if you leave chopsticks sticking out of rice, you are reminding them of their impending death. This is why that whole population is going to disappear in 30 years, they are all too butt hurt about food.

Bitter Mushroom posted:

lol @ inland people who eat seafood

ElGroucho posted:

Why does sushi have all these goddamn rules? Nobody at the mexican place is going to hassle you if you break apart your enchilada, pour all the salsa in, then cut it up with a knife to baby sized portions, and then wrap a tortilla around that. All of the items are there for you, use none or all of them, who gives a poo poo?

I've heard that if you put the knife a certain way on a Japanese plate, you are insulting them by telling them to kill themselves. Also, if you leave chopsticks sticking out of rice, you are reminding them of their impending death. This is why that whole population is going to disappear in 30 years, they are all too butt hurt about food.

Waltzing Along posted:

This is a bad thread.

The OP was wrong in every way.

Probably a troll because no one can be that stupid.

OP probably is that stupid.

Moridin920 posted:

yeah like white people don't have 1001 etiqeutte rules you break nonstop while eating; it's just that there's no otaku equivalent assholes around to tell you 'hey that's actually the SOUP spoon' or whatever the hell

and incidentally go to any fine dining restaurant and start doing some stuff like that to the food and they'll all be super offended too

je1 healthcare posted:

Actually, schools on "western dining etiquette" are a thing in China

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/chinese-fork-16-000-etiquette-article-1.1406526

Waltzing Along posted:

This is a bad thread.

The OP was wrong in every way.

Probably a troll because no one can be that stupid.

OP probably is that stupid.

Moridin920 posted:

Of course.

I'm saying no white people in the US are really going to correct you about it like the weeabo otakus will about the chop sticks in the rice thing. I bet in Japan itself no one really cares about the chopstick thing.

how me a frog posted:

I seem to remember Applewhite being good and cool, maybe it's his turn to go insane and make terrible threads.

je1 healthcare posted:

Nah I've seen people there get legit bothered if you do certain things with chopsticks, like using them to pass things to another person's chopsticks. But that's only because it has a morbid symbolism, as people only do that during funeral rites with bone fragments after a cremation.

But they're more level-headed about explaining it

numberoneposter posted:

im getting hungry

Applewhite posted:

Why did they give a poo poo what you did with the rice after you paid for it?

Applewhite posted:

Maybe if they were smart they would keep eating utensils away from corpses and then chopsticks wouldn't remind them so much of dead people all the time. That's my hot take.

Lid posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htDtGc1SPlc

Chomp8645 posted:

The best sauce to go with a steak is ketchup.

ArbitraryC posted:

Yeah I mean essentially dunking the whole thing in soy sauce would be like buying a filet mignon and dousing it in ketchup, it's your food so do what you want but it is gonna come across like you don't really appreciate the meat itself and it's kind of a waste.

Zzulu posted:

I eat my meat raw, while it is still attached to the animal, alive

You aint never eat real meat until feel its pulse on your tongue

ArbitraryC posted:

I assume he's talking about an all you can eat thing and people picking the fish off nigiri and leaving the rice which is obviously pretty ridiculous.

Also as far as your op goes I dunno what kind of sushi you were eating but for nigiri (the ones with fish on top of a bit of rice) you're not supposed to dunk the whole thing in soy sauce you're supposed to lift the fish off, dunk that, then put it back on and eat it. If you dunk the whole thing the rice absorbs so much soy sauce that it drowns out the pretty mild flavors of the fish, which is fine if that's what you want to do but imo kind of a waste for what is typically a pretty expensive food.

Chomp8645 posted:

Yeah that's me which is why I never buy good steaks for myself or order them at restaurants. Because no matter what kind of steak it is I'm gonna ketchup it and any leftover are going into steak n eggs (probably also involving ketchup).

Similarly, I will order sushi rolls but never nigiri for the same reason.

Applewhite posted:

It was sushi rolls, not nigiri.

a hole-y ghost posted:

That's the thing though—if ketchup with steak is what you enjoy, more than steak without ketchup, and you're enjoying it as much as someone who enjoys steak without ketchup, why does it even matter??

Zzulu posted:

Zzulu posted:

I eat my meat raw, while it is still attached to the animal, alive

You aint never eat real meat until feel its pulse on your tongue

a hole-y ghost posted:

That's the thing though—if ketchup with steak is what you enjoy, more than steak without ketchup, and you're enjoying it as much as someone who enjoys steak without ketchup, why does it even matter??