1/29/2008

Women bite into big sushi rolls in giant gobbling contest
2008 Jan. 29 – Mainichi Daily News, OSAKA — Female university students battled it out to be the fastest team to gobble down a huge sushi roll in a contest…
“It was a bit embarrassing,” said one of the participants, who gulped down mouthfuls of tea between bites on the sushi roll. “But we won because we put aside our pride”…more…

How can ruin this delicious moment with my inane comments?

Sadly, the damn googlebots demand that I add commentary for this to be listed a “news” so I will have to mention that the maki sushi rolls the girls are eating only make up 10-20% of all the sushi consumed in Japan (as opposed to odd Western ideas that most sushi consist of rolls). The reason that sushi is thought of as a roll in the West is that making maki rolls takes almost no talent and skilled sushi chefs are at a premium outside of Japan.