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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (12 children)

No. That photo misses the whole point. The article is talking about these, which are common in Australia. You normally buy 3-4 of them and that's a quick lunch on the go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

fwiw Adam Liaw has Malaysian-Chinese heritage not Japanese

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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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