Salmon Sushi Is Not Real
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as the debunking of the Norway salmon sushi story.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends throwaway2037 · 2023-01 · on “Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan”
This myth was disproven by Andong on YouTube. He found a NYTimes article from 1975 about sushi in Japan that included salmon. Watch here: [this video] Edit: Andong also specifically talks about the Nichirei deal.
Cites pedalpete · 2021-04 · on “Wildtype: Sushi-grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells”
I'm not sure who to trust here. This video says that the Norwegian sushi story is a bit of a myth, or over stated due to poor journalism. [this video] But he definitely has evidence of salmon sushi being eaten before the Norwegians claim to have invented it.
Cites gruez · 2022-04 · on “Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (2015)”
>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] [this video]
Cites franciscop · 2023-04 · on “The surprising roots of Japan's Indian curry”
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: [this video]