Grocery store sushi: Yuck or Yum? Chopsticks or finger food?

[Anonymous]

Are you 5 or not have functioning teeth? So strange to worry about choking on a sushi roll. Do you not know how to chew?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Japanese eat sushi with their hands, not chopsticks.

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If this is true, you have made me very happy.

I get a veggi sushi roll from my local sushi place. And I eat with my hands. I am trying to learn how to use chopsticks but it is so hard.

Yes, it is true. Japanese eat sushi with their hands. They don't eat as many rolls tho.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Japanese eat sushi with their hands, not chopsticks.

s

If this is true, you have made me very happy.

I get a veggi sushi roll from my local sushi place. And I eat with my hands. I am trying to learn how to use chopsticks but it is so hard.

Yes, it is true. Japanese eat sushi with their hands. They don't eat as many rolls tho.

+1. At higher end sushi omakases you'll also see everyone eats sushi with their fingers. They give you a little finger wipe. I have no problem with chopsticks generally, but they're kind of annoying for nigiri. Happy to use my hands and know it is not uncouth!

[Anonymous]

I eat both and it depends on who makes it. The supermarket stuff isn't usually any cheaper and in some places more expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Our mutual teasing is fun and we have not laughed so much in a long time. We’ll always be young (and immature) around each other and that’s why I love having a sister. We can be mature grownups the rest of the time.

I'm sure you often ask people "can't you take a joke?" You sound like a jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wegmans is the only supermarket sushi I've ever had that is decent at all. It's pretty good.

+1

[Anonymous]

Wegmans is f*ing terrible.

Stop spreading the lie that it’s edible.

[Anonymous]

Freshly made sushi is better than sushi that's been sitting in a refrigerated container for a couple of hours. To clarify, the RICE is better when it's freshly formed. It gets hard and stale after sitting in the fridge. And veggies or other add-ins might get soggy. The fish itself is usually fine.

So, if I see the person behind the counter forming rolls and packing them into containers, I'm happy to take those and eat them soon after. I don't buy them from the refrigerated case hours after the staff went home, or take them and stick them in my own fridge for a day. (The latter part is true of grocery store or takeout, day-after takeout sushi is horrible.)

Some sushi restaurants do have really high-quality fish, but even the best restaurants it's more a matter of 'what did you get this week that is particularly amazing', vs an across-the-board statement that the restaurant fish is better than grocery store fish.

[Anonymous]

I like WF sushi, wish there were more varieties.

[Anonymous]

I buy my kids grocery store sushi, but I’m more snobby about mine and only eat it from a few places I like. It was all better in NYC when we lived there but oh well. I eat it with my fingers.

[Anonymous]

You don’t eat a whole sushi roll when using chopsticks? I’m fascinated.

[Anonymous]

My kids like Whole Foods sushi a lot and I will eat it occasionally though I usually prefer to get it directly from the people making it.

[Anonymous]

Wegmans and Whole Foods sushi is decent! Not as good as if you go to a nice sushi restaurant, but a fine, inexpensive lunch.