My friend's 5 year old daughter would only eat the hot dog part inside of a corn dog. She would peel off all the outer parts and throw it away. So she got her just a hot dog and she wouldn't eat it because it tasted different.
I've never been to America. But in Europe if you went to a sushi place you would expect that they would serve sashimi too. If people told you their favourite form of sushi is sashimi no one would think twice about it. Only the highest level pedants would make the distinction.
With any properly "skinned" hot dog, that taste would be minimal. However, I can sympathize with the struggle of batter-to-dog ratio, and often strip away a good portion of the batter, to make a more enjoyable corn dog experience.
Our first world selves are a bit too spoiled to the point where we can waste food. It's so plentiful and so cheap that folks can and have gotten used to over ordering, over buying, not eating what they want, and not finishing what they have on their plates. The value of food being something that was alive and had to die to be on your plate is lost. Food is so cheap and abundant that folks will actively waste it as if it's worthless because governments subsidies keep it cheap purpose to prevent instability.
Meanwhile modern self-interest-only capitalist ideology makes it so that folks feel it's OK to fucking waste food even if it's disrespectful to the lives taken to put that food there, disrespectful the farmers/harvesters/shippers/cleaners/cooks who make the food, and a waste of money for themselves. It does not matter. "Even the slightest inconvenience to ME is absolutely unacceptable" All the better for capitalists wanting to maximize production, sales, and revenue.
These 1st world girls (it's not always girls but less common for boys) to be picky eaters or outright waste food because they are spoiled by society and those around them. But I don't see folks of either gender wasting food in Japan because society teaches them not to. I don't see women wasting food in 3rd world countries wasting food (if anything they maximize all calories they can get). But I see folks of both genders leaving tons of food behind at restaurants here in the states. Why? Because folks are spoiled. So spoiled by cheap food they could pull that bullshit, so fucking spoiled by their parents that they never knew a day of hunger let alone fucking starving, so reinforced by their BF/peers who would do the same bullshit or not say anything about it, encouraged to do so by corporations looking to maximize sales, and no one calls them out on their bullshit because too many folks do the same.
I used to peel my chicken nuggets when I was little because I didn't like the batter but wouldn't eat plain chicken so yeah, it's almost definitely the flavour of the part she "doesn't like" that she likes.
My sister can't have cheese but she likes pizza, so for her whole life she's peeled the cheese off (and another family member eats it). But one day we were like "Why don't we just get a pizza made that's only sauce??" And we got one and she didn't like it because it tasted different haha.
Corn dogs do taste different than hot dogs, maybe there is a brand out there that is the same. I never cared much for the corn part of corn dogs, but enjoyed the hot dog part. As an adult I can eat both, but it isn't my go to meal.
If you’re getting the Foster Farms corn dogs, the hot dog part is made with chicken and not beef or pork. I have to be careful what hot dogs I eat since I have a pork allergy, and the Foster Farms ones are the only ones I have found so far that I can eat
Give her a hot dog weiner and a corn dog weiner, and have her tell them apart. Repeat it around 3 times to prevent the 50/50 from ruining the argument, and use it to show her that they’re the same weiner
I peel the pepperoni off any pizza I get and give them to my partner. I don't like eating pepperoni but I like the flavor of it on the pizza. When I try getting just cheese pizza it doesn't taste right, so I get what the kid is saying. It's a win win in our situation though, my partner loves pepperoni.
Though I will say, depending on where they get sushi from if it is a seaweed thing, couldn't she ask for the soy wrapper? That's how I get my sushi when we go out and it's actually allowed me to learn to love it!
She’s a treasure. She prefers the original version against what Germans in the USA changed to sell the original Frankfurter Würstchen in the USA including changing the name to Hotdogs.
I only ate the breading off corn dogs and threw away the meat. A corn dog is deep fried and you're never going to be able to get a plain weiner to taste like a corn dog without dipping it in batter and frying it. And just to be clear, those microwaveable corn dogs are precooked.
E: just wanted to add I would still never eat weiners so thankfully I don't have anyone trying to force me to eat something I don't want like your moron friend's daughter.
Most Kroger or Kroger affiliates will have sushi in store. That covers 35 states, then of course there are states with no Kroger/affiliates, but have stores with sushi, such as all the northeastern states.
I would say if you live in a state with no grocery store sushi, you are in a vanishing minority. Hell, even gas stations sell sushi enough that there is an expression, "has station sushi", to refer to mass produced, low to middling quality sushi as sold at places with no on-site sushi chef.
Yeah, I live in Vermont and we don't got much here, unless you live in Burlington. There is a grocery store with sushi near me, but it's about the only one within a 90 minute drive and even then, it's fairly low quality
Well you said grocery store which likely indicates you are in America. They used a euro so they are in Europe somewhere. In the uk you would be hard pressed to find an average supermarket that had sushi that wasn’t pictured as above
I can assure you that I live in the United States and could close my eyes, pick any random supermarket, and get sushi from it lol. I'm on the East Coast though, maybe it's different further west?
I'd put money down that they are specifically west coast of the US. That's the only place I've seen that kind of availability in "every" grocery store.
Bad bet when they're putting euro in the title. I'm in a very small country in Europe and every grocery store has Sushi, Sashimi, ... available exactly like in the picture. It's def not only US.
Yeah the UK is a country kind of known for being bad at having foreign food options, so let's not make it the representation for an entire continent. Italy (Toscana) has sushi galore, and honestly more options than most spots on the east coast USA. Even if it wasn't readily cut bits, you can get sushi grade fish at just about any fish market.
You have absolutely not been very many places then — sashimi and nigiri, sure, I see these everywhere in every major metro but not much outside of that. These little sushi roll boxes I’ve seen at any random chain grocery store in a town of 10000 people.
I don't think you understood my point, the only places I have been that EVERY grocery store in a city has sushi, sashimi, nigiri, poke, AND tempura would be west coast and even that is a stretch. I've seen them plenty of places in general.
I’m in the middle of the US, but I’ve lived and travelled all over the country. This is everywhere at every chain grocery store, at least if you’re near any kind of midsize city.
I just did a quick search on nigiri at Walmart, Costo, Kroger, Giant, Publix, Albertsons, and Food Lion (just picked some of the largest ones I know of to get a good spread).
Only Kroger seems to have it as a ready to eat option while Walmart has a kit (for $40 which seems crazy I might add).
I realize that, but I’ve spent enough time in the UK and Europe to know it’s similar there in most places, although not as common as the US. There may be less selection but there’s almost always sushi and sashimi.
Tbh even sushi restaurants are mostly salmon or tuna. The other ingredients like vegetables, roe, etc. are usually what changes the options and those are gonna be for rolls.
I recognize this sushi as I buy it somewhat regularly. It's from Rewe, German grocery chain, and I personally have never seen sashimi anywhere outside of a restaurant here. You can get basic rolls, maki, and nigiri but that's about it.
That is absolutely not common in most places. Even finding sushi is hit or miss, I have never in my life seen fresh sashimi in a grocery store, amd I've been around a bit.
Never in my life, after living in 3 different states and multiple different cities, have I ever seen sashimi in a grocery store. So "not uncommon at all" seems a little misleading. There is only one grocery store here in Texas that I can find Sushi at, much less sashimi.
I'm more worried about paying $9 for grocery store sushi
I worked at a grocery store that got sushi for about 2 months and it never sold because it was dogshit and we had three sushi places in the same mall as us
The Hannaford's five minutes from my house in suburban New Hampshire (not exactly a paradise of adventurous gastronomy) has sashimi in their sushi section.
I’ve also seen sashimi and sushi in a grocery store and they’re actually pretty common. So I wouldn’t just use your anecdotal experience and apply it to everyone. Why do you think that they’re never in grocery stores lol?
Sure I can see that, in my experience it’s pretty common but I can’t speak to your area, though unless you’re also from Germany I don’t think you can speak to whether grocery stores there have sashimi or not (if you are I apologize).
I also don’t really understand why you’re sure it’s a grocery store. It’s pretty common packaging for take out sushi. When I was in England I would buy sushi from a chain and it would look like that. Similar to Asia or America where I’ve gotten take out sushi.
Show me the take out sushi that comes in that plastic packaging, with a label over it, and that provides you with a receipt like the one that’s also in the photo. I’ll hold.
(Also, the receipt is for Rewe, a German supermarket.)
Yeah sure I’ll go out right now at midnight my time to get sushi so I can prove a point to you. What the fuck are you even talking about.
The fact is you can’t fucking definitively say that no takeout sushi is in that packaging. I’ve definitely had take out sushi in packaging like this. You realize that some restaurants have sushi that’s premade for takeout like grocery stores right? Sorry you haven’t travelled enough and seen places like that.
I don’t know why you’re trying to even argue this. Are you actually stupid? Do you believe your lived experiences is representative of every fucking person and restaurant out there? Just sit back and think about how stupid you are before you reply. Or better yet don’t reply lol.
Edit: if you really wanna hold til I get sushi next time I can dm you so you can shut the fuck up lol. Wait a week or so I guess.
Edit: actually here you go. This is sushi express. Not a fucking grocery store but a sushi shop. Sorry the stickers aren’t as big I guess lol. Are you gonna admit you’re wrong now? Literally took me 2 minutes to find a picture. When I swung by my local sushi express I’ll send you a picture too.
Good question. Why are you assuming that all grocery stores are like yours and don't sell sashimi? I've seen it before, it's just not common because sashimi is like 2-3x the price of the cheap rolls and the people who like it will generally skip the store and go straight to the restaurant.
There is a big diff btw sashimi and the negeri rolls she eats. Fish in sushi rolls tend to be minced tuna very akin to tuna in a can. Sashimi is literal fish and I find it tastes completely diff from the tuna in sushi rolls, taste wise as well as texture. Also often sushi rolls will include other stuff like avocado and such.
I've had it both ways. Sometimes it is almost mushy when mixed with a spicy mayo (I assumed that is what he was talking about), sometimes it is more like raw pieces. You probably know more about sushi than me though so I'll bow out
So I worked in a sushi place for a long time and it really just comes down to how the fish is butchered. If you think of the tuna like a cow, the firm sliced tuna you get is the steak part, and there's different cuts depending on what part of the fish you're cutting from that get used for different things, maki rolls, nigiri, sashimi, poke, etc.. This all comes off cleanly and is sliced down into its different cuts. Also sushi fish is expensive AF and you want your waste to be almost negligible. The pretty parts get used for sashimi/nigiri, the not so pretty but still good quality parts go in rolls, the trimmings from cutting the pretty parts get used for various things, not always sushi.
The tuna that is usually called "spicy tuna" *is all the rib meat that is harder to cut off cleanly and instead gets carefully scraped off the bone/cartilage with a spoon or some other tool. It gets minced down like tare tare, sometimes with the trimmings from butchering, and mixed with whatever the "house spicy sauce" is, this usually gets made fresh every day at a good place.
So all in all it's the same quality fish, just different parts of the carcass.
Lol people get so angry because they don't like the way I describe it. Obviously I described the way I see it. I eat them mainly at buffets and whatever. No I can't afford to go to them fancy places that cost per piece. But the ones I have eaten never have a whole slice of fish in it. It is usually cut up. Also it never tasted anything close to sashimi. Probably because they usually have that sauce or other ingredients mixed in. When I ate sashimi, it was often just with soy sauce and a bit of wasabi.
I mean no one is giving you shit for not being able to afford to “go to them fancy places” for sushi. But if you’ve only had buffet sushi maybe don’t go around educating people on what usually goes into sushi.
Edit: also I’ve been to plenty of cheap buffet places with real sushi. So I don’t really think it’s a matter of whether you can afford really nice sushi or whatever issue you conjured up in your mind
Lol buffets sushi is still sushi. Yes it's lower quality but it tastes fine to me and fills me up for a fraction of the cost. And nobody is educating anybody here. It's just reddit ffs. Me giving my opinion on my own experiences. A different perspective.
Yeah buffet sushi doesn’t equal all sushi. Also there buffet sushi that doesn’t used canned tuna.
Another thing is she’s clearly not eating buffet sushi since she’s obviously not in a restaurant. Must be a pretty generous buffet you go to if they let you do take outs lol.
You also didn’t say that it’s in your experience. You jsut explained that there’s a “difference between sashimi and negeri rolls”. So yes you were trying to educate people on it. Stop trying to backtrack lol.
You do realize I only used the canned tuna just as a reference for texture and size similarly. I just Google pictures of tuna sushi rolls and first picture literally had small slices of tuna in a roll. It is not one whole slice of tuna. Slices akin much like what you see in a can of tuna. Obviously they are raw not like tuna in a can. Not sure if I can post pictures here so I won't bother but you can Google it yourself. Sushi rolls pictures. As for how I said it, that's just how I talk. I am in no way some sushi expert. Just expressing my thoughts as to possibly explain why she might not want sashimi. It tastes very different from tuna rolls in my experience.
I mean I’ve never had raw tuna, even when they’re cut up into bits, be at all similar in texture to canned tuna. I don’t know what you’re talking about anymore tbh. Go and enjoy your canned tuna sushi.
Here, the tuna used in rolls and in sashimi is the same. The sushi shop I used to go, I could see how they prepared it, it was open. Sometimes I got there when the fish supplies arrived, and I saw how he cut it in different shape pieces to keep it prepared later. It was just thin and long cuts for the makis and californias, and thin rectangles for the sashimi. But it was the same piece in origin.
I would say most of the rolls I get are either minced raw fish with some sauce added, faux crab, or just a sliver of sashimi. At least where I’m at the majority of the rolls have spices of raw fish not minced fish. The minced ones are always considered of less quality.
All I can say is that you need to try some real sushi. I’ve never had a roll with canned tuna. That sounds like something that would only happen in towns where there are no Asian people in sight.
That makizushi might not have any sashimi (it might, though, depending on the restaurant). Makizushi will often have flavored (cooked) egg, cucumber, Kamaboko (traditional steamed fish paste), kampyo (flavored dried gourd), takuan (yellow pickled daikon radish), and other ingredients.
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u/SudhaTheHill 5d ago
Just get the fish next time haha