Jezebel: sushi

Make Your Own Mr. Big/Raw Fish Jokes

Dodai — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:50:00 EDT

[Vancouver, April 2. Images via Bauer-Griffin.]

Something's Fishy

Dodai — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated from high school this year, have discovered that not all sushi fish is labeled properly. It started over dinner: Katie's dad, Dr. Stoeckle, works with DNA bar coding. "Could you bar code sushi?" Katie asked. He replied, "Yeah, I think you could — and if you did that, I think you’d be the first ones." Katie asked Louisa to help collect her samples. As Dr. Stoeckle put it, "It involved shopping and eating, in which they were already fluent." They went to 4 restaurants and 10 grocery stores in Manhattan, then sent tiny pieces of fish off to a lab in Ontario. Two of the 4 restaurants and 6 of the 10 grocery stores had sold mislabeled fish. White tuna turned out to be Mozambique tilapia. Roe supposedly from flying fish was actually from smelt. (And so on.) Know what you're getting, don't let your sushi chef off the hook! [NY Times, Reuters]

The Daily Show: Wine, carbs and crotch shots

Anna — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:04:31 EST

We don't normally associate beaver shots with DailyCandy but today's installment gets all sorts of nasty with this item plugging a line of neutral-colored serving pieces. Maybe it's just us, but we don't get a good feeling when reading the word "sushi" in the same item as the phrase "When you hear the words 'spread' and 'nude' only one thing comes to mind."

In other news, DC editors suggest wine-consumption to Atlanta; blowouts to Boston; eating to Chicago; massage to Dallas; banana chocolate chip bread to Los Angeles (ha!); and offer up a particularly bad and obvious kicker in their posting about handbags to the city of Seattle.