Do you like sushi?

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I used to just goto rock pools along the coast when I lived in Yorkshire. Foraging for the food along the coast was great, even at this time of year you could find all sorts there.

The english are really stupid fussy eaters when it comes to going out and getting fresh food yourself so I find the coastline is an absolute feast for food. The only real barrier to eating stuff is the quality of the water on that particular part of the coastline. I.e. Around the Sellafield nuclear powerplant is probably not a good idea given that they emit radioactive substances into the environment via discharges into the sea.

Periwinckles
Blue mussels
Lobsters (if you find them trapped in a rock pool its pure win)
Scurvy Grass
Limpets (you have to sneak up on them to be able to wack um off the rock, its a pain in the arse)
Razor shell (you pour salt down their burrow and they bounce out of it)
common whelk

Nothing tastes nicer then fresh lobster first thing in the morning

I love a good fresh sashami and lion rolls yum, but can only affford it sometimes

I love sushi!

I would seriously eat it every day if I could.

At the risk of sounding ret*d because I started this thread... what's the difference between sushi and sashimi?

As it was mentioned a bit earlier in this thread:

sushi - raw fish with rice, vegetables and/or algae
sashimi - just raw fish cut into pieces

Sushi is quite popular where I live, but sashimi is hardly ever offered, so it might be that you have not come across it yourself, either.

As far as I know, sashimi is a piece of raw fish (or shrimp or other animal from the sea) that has been cut so it can fit into a person's mouth relatively easily. Period. Maybe rice can be served as a side dish, but sashimi itself is just chopped fish.

In Japanese, I think there is different terms for rolled sushi and for sushi that look more a block of rice with fish on top, but I cannot recall those terms. Maybe Wikipedia can help here?

edit: Of course Wikipedia can help. Here you go! And a more general article on sushi is here.

Thank you again FluffyDog . It appears what I was talking about was Nigirizushi. I've never had sashimi, nor does it look like I've ever seen it in a restaurant that I've been to. Seems a bit strange because sashimi doesn't seem too exotic. I wonder why I've not seen it

I reckon many Europeans are wary of eating raw (sea) fish as that had to be transported a long way by cart or boat in the Middle Ages and was prone to go bad on the way. Thus, fish was simply not eaten raw a lot, I guess. It's the same thing with most other animals - pork, beef and mutton used to be stored salted or smoked to prevent them from going bad, so eating them raw does not apeal to many Europeans even with today's improved methods of tranportation and conversation.

I can imagine that raw fish appears even less palatable to some people than raw beef (eg in the form of carpacchio), because the texture can be somewhat slimy if the fish is not properly prepared and many people do not fancy slimy food around here.

With sushi, there is still the appeal of the food looking nice and there being some rice and other stuff to make it appear less like a chunk of raw animal, but in sashimi I reckon the raw-fish-aspect is simply to obvious for many Europeans. And I reckon all this holds true for members of other "western" cultures as well.

Not really, I tried it once when my old friend took some into school and it tasted like cod liver oil tablets.

Okay, with regard to what Sallamandrina wrote, I'll correct myself and ask that "Europeans" be read as "inland Europeans". Of course things are bound to look a bit different for people who live reasonably close to the coast (as is the case with many Scandinavians) and had access to relatively fresh sea fish even before food could be frozen and transported quickly.

And yes, I agree that all kinds of raw animal food ought to be as fresh and prepared with as much consideration of hygienic standards as possible.