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Salmon Sushi Is Not Real

My Name Is Andong · 465.3K views · 2021-03-31 · 15:37

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Andong examines the popular story that Norway invented salmon sushi in Japan in the 1990s. He argues it is largely a myth, pointing to earlier evidence of raw salmon eaten in Japan and elsewhere.

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HN cites it as the debunking of the Norway salmon sushi story.

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throwaway2037 · 2023-01 · Recommendation

This myth was disproven by Andong on YouTube. He found a NYTimes article from 1975 about sushi in Japan that included salmon. Watch here: [VIDEO] Edit: Andong also specifically talks about the Nichirei deal.

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franciscop · 2023-04 · Reference

Salmon for sushi seems not to be the famous story that was going around. Like, it has all the tenets of a nice fake story, talking about Japan and how a foreign more familiar power outsmarted them, but apparently salmon was popular way before Norway theoretically started marketing it: [VIDEO]

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gruez · 2022-04 · Reference

>How The Desperate Norwegian Salmon Industry Created A Sushi Staple This is slightly misleading. Salmon sushi in japan might not have been a thing prior to norway's marketing campaign, but there's plenty of evidence of salmon sushi being a thing outside of japan[1] and being at least somewhat popular. You could argue that if it weren't for acceptance in japan it wouldn't have been a "staple", but that seems a bit tenuous when it was already on magazine covers. [1] [VIDEO]

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