Just Eat It!

Tonight was not the first night I've had sushi. It was probably the first time I've had "real" sushi..."real" expensive. I liked the rolls well enough, especially when they had something fried in the middle. Doesn't really matter what it is, as long as it's battered and dipped in oil. And I'm getting a feel for wasabi, mix it with a little soy sauce and it's a kind of spicy that I could really go for when I normally don't care for heat at all.

But I didn't care for the sashimi, raw fish is raw fish is raw fish. You think for what they're charging they could season it and slap on a grill for 20 seconeds. It's slimy and mushy. I don't know how people get into this stuff, must be the hep cool thing.

What I really don't get is the Edemame. Some one asked for three bowls of this stuff to be brought to the table. I had heard the word before but was never impressed enough to remember what it was. Then I remembered why. It's soy beans, call it what you will, it's still just soy beans. Soy beans that have been steamed and then left to get cold. And you know what they taste like? Soy beans, that's right, and they smell like it too! I ate them, I only had 2 cups of yogurt today so I would have eaten anything by that point.

It makes me think about what other similarly worthless crops are out there just waiting for some yuppy intellectual to come along and turn it into food. Makes me wanna go out and mow my lawn, call it Ootafaloota, steam it and feed it to you at $50 a plate.