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[arethinn]

I'm confused. This "track food and nutrition" site I'm using has six entries for "sushi" in its database of known foods:

Sushi, NFS (I don't know what "NFS" stands for; it appears on a number of foods, and I think it must mean "no ____ stated", but I'm not sure quite what)
Sushi, no vegetables, no fish
Sushi, with vegetables, no fish
Sushi, with vegetables and fish
Sushi, with vegetables, rolled in seaweed
Sushi, with egg, no vegetables, no fish, rolled in seaweed

Sooo... when you take away egg, vegetables and fish, and it's not specified to have been wrapped in seaweed, aren't you down to just rice? What the heck is the point of that?

Comments

[nsingman.livejournal.com]

If memory serves, the term "sushi" refers to that vinegared rice itself. It was used as a way to preserve fish, and I think the rice was originally discarded when the fish was eaten. As a low carb dieter, I eat sashimi, which is just the raw fish. And oh, how I love it! :-)