How WWII Almost Killed Sushi Forever

Sushi survived through WWII with the help of hardworking sushi vendors.
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[@pyeitme508]

Sushi 🍣

[@moonprincess500]

Hehehehe pun! 🍱

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Good timing, the Sushi Terrorists have just been arrested 👍 May they rot in a vegetarian hell !

[@greekyogurt9997]

I should not have watched this video before I ate breakfast

[@candlelight5028]

🍣🍱

[@OLDMANWAFFLES]

As a hard working San Franciscan, I can confirm sushi is a complete part of our daily nutritional value.

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

Was it until the 80's or something when the Japanese Food invasion arrived in SF? Before that it was Chinese food's turf.

[@mcbrians.8508]

I want to punch the guy who wrote in wikipedia about Imperial Japanese Army Rations where it reads they “make sushi in the field”. (sushi kit ration BS) The closest sushi-like food their armies ever eat was that rice ball in leaves. but it’s not sushi

[@Average_Brad]

Not fair Linfamy. Every time I watch one of your videos lately I'm saddened by the lack of good sushi in my area. You must send me good sushi to atone.

[@Linfamy]

Hm...not sure sushi will last in a box I send thru the mail

[@Average_Brad]

@@Linfamy Alright... I'll forgive you anyway, I guess.

[@Linfamy]

@@Average_Brad here's a sushi emoji instead 🍣

[@xendurr8180]

sus hi

[@L0rdOfThePies]

​@@xendurr8180 _oh my god_

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

"Today, more women are getting into the sushi profession, by, I believe, supressing their periods." Okay, this killed me 😂😂😂

[@andrewklang809]

"I'm sorry, sir, but the sushi's heart rate has stopped. It is dead." "Doctor, I'd like to be alone with the sushi for a minute." "Are you going to eat it?" "...........Yes."

[@marthmallow7420]

"...save some for me too"

[@brittanyt9787]

My husband just described your cartoon as "the Mr hankey with a scarf guy". I'm a big fan and defended your honor as best I could.

[@Linfamy]

Lol I mean...pretty accurate 😂

[@ironwolf5802]

My dad and his family lived in the Japanese sumer Palace after WW2 during the occupation. He had sushi at a young age and taught some of the other kids how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

[@Linfamy]

Did they like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?

[@JoeH3rz-3]

Did they ever make a food combo of both of these? I'd enjoy a Salmon and Eel sandwich and PB&J Sushi, (Beikoku Sushi)

[@yoremothra9838]

Great moments in Cultural Exchange...

[@ironwolf5802]

@Linfamy I think so but he couldn't remember much by the time he told me. If anything they could have just been nice to the little 5 year old.

[@dannylo5875]

@@Linfamy God, if you had introduced them to Avocado or tomatoes, you might have changed history/ Even Corn. Maybe Canned American Beef. You might have even invented Japanese Sloppy Jones

[@Mikeztarp]

I'm opening a sushi restaurant with a revolutionary new concept: build-your-own-sushi! You bring the ingredients, cook whichever need to be cooked, and you assemble the sushi yourself.

[@Linfamy]

Intriguing...

[@Gr8fulSunflowr]

I've heard it's hard to get the firmness right for sushi... cant be too firm nor too loose. Maybe do a genghis-grill-style restaurant where you pick all your ingredients and bring them to the chef, then the chef finishes things up for you by putting it all together? Just an idea.

[@Libbathegreat]

So basically, a kitchen people pay extra to use 😂 Hipsters will love it, though.

[@heakhaek]

Very interesting tactic. It sounds like cooking but with extra steps.

[@vintan8191]

Neat

[@Losshe]

Now I'm starving 🍣

[@eacalvert]

100% correct on free parasites from gas station sushi or vending machines. I know cause I saw it once in Futuroma

[@Linfamy]

😱

[@Lady_Chalk]

Would you consider a series on the history of Japanese pottery? Just thought it would be interesting. Really, for me, any art topic would be great!

[@Libbathegreat]

He talked a little about ancient Jomon pottery in his videos on that period, but yeah something talking about later stuff would be cool.

[@Lady_Chalk]

@@Libbathegreat oh! I'll look for that! I'd really love something on Kintsugi pottery!

[@demeterruinedmylife3199]

I like Inari sushi, I like that sweet taste. But speaking of sushi, I’m still at a loss of words that a few idiots basically took down the whole conveyor belt sushi business by licking on sushi and soy sauce bottle, and at a even strong loss of words when I realise that episode will probably get written down in the history of sushi.

[@SewardWriter]

... They were American, weren't they?

[@W4iteFlame]

Care to elaborate?

[@demeterruinedmylife3199]

@@W4iteFlame Well, it’s called Sushiro licking incident, basically a high school student licked the utensils and sushi in a Sushiro branch in Gifu, then put the sushi back onto the conveyer belt, all while making a video out of it. The stock price of Sushiro took a heavy blow, and conveyer belt sushi restaurants are now changing to stuff like delivering sushi only after receiving orders, etc.

[@W4iteFlame]

@@demeterruinedmylife3199 that's a shame...

[@IsaPodrasky]

@@SewardWriter I saw the video; it actually was a Japanese high school student who did that.

[@toxiac5862]

now i think i love sushi even more after learning some history about it

[@Oscarandu]

Always brings joy to my day, thank you japanese man from telling japanese things

[@pn2294]

Isn’t he Taiwanese?

[@HisameArtwork]

@@pn2294 he's part japanese born and raised in canada iirc

[@mattcgw]

@@HisameArtwork Ah, that's why he understands some of the difficulty with some Japanese pronunciation. And says it in way more friendly to non-native speakers. Unintentionally or otherwise.

[@haneyletpajo2922]

I thought he was Vietnamese!

[@bigfootpart4therevengeancing]

I had heard that Linfamy was 1/8 Zinc, 3/4 Vietnamese, 5/16 Ursus Arctos Middendorffi, 1/2 Diatomaceous Earth and related to Kevin Bacon by 5 degrees Kelvin.

[@pacificostudios]

The story about nigiri sushi shrinking during the post-WWII hard times might explain why "Musubi" in Hawaii are huge compared to nigiri sushi. There is about a cup of rice wrapped in nori, with some combinations of egg, spam, or chicken cutlet. I used to eat them all the time when I lived in Hawaii.

[@sennull6884]

Your deadpan jokes and sarcasm are hilarious and keep me coming back.

[@Scgod2]

I never clicked so fast on a video before lol 🍣🍱 This is another part of sushi history that I have heard before. It’s interesting how people can be creative when a government tries to ban things.

[@mommachupacabra]

I remember in the 1980's a sushi place in Orange County, CA had to shut down its conveyor belt after some little kid lost his fingertip. We happened to walk in just as some officials were tearing the belt apart to see if they could find the bit of finger so it could be sewn back on. Fun times.

[@BatsofPrey]

The level of comedy with historical fact is amazing, makes for one of the best videos unlike the boring monotone 100% cold factual videos or the too much try hard education videos that come off as so comedic you can't trust the information. I'm def going to show these to any friends I can until they get sick of it 😊

[@jibreelgonzalous319]

These sushi vids are on a roll… A California roll…

[@Linfamy]

...

[@flyin4352]

As a Sushi addict myself, I will forever be in debt to these brave sushi sellers

[@Panda_Roll]

Due to the pandamic train sushi changed. Some places put the food in plastic domes to protect it while it circulates while others don't even have food on there, just recommendations for you to order and the food is sent to your stall directly.

[@vanguardiris3232]

It might be a regional thing but in the UK I've only ever seen conveyor belt sushi under little domes, since long before the pandemic. Perhaps it's to do with food hygiene law or something

[@Lucious410]

Thanks for sharing this with us 😊

[@iglybo]

Very interesting as always!

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Thank you for the video!

[@unclenogbad1509]

Love sushi, love Japan, love your videos. Thanks.

[@patrickinjapan7317]

I learn something new every time I watch one of your videos! Thank you always.😊

[@jeanfalconer6377]

Another excellent vid! It's a good thing I'll be eating breakfast soon.

[@sherri-annchalmers7509]

Thanks

[@Linfamy]

Yay thanks so much!

[@JazniaDraw]

I love how your art style has improved since i first started watching you! The shading, the poses, the lineart, everything looks so good! Glad to be able to watch your progress ^^

[@shayk4791]

I love this channel. Never learned and laughed so much in 10 min span.

[@aayamgiri]

Great vid bro

[@Rinna33]

This reminds me of the beef both sides of my family have as to who makes a better tamale. My dad most definitely is the tamalekage if I’m being honest.

[@SewardWriter]

Now I want tamales. I filled some with hummus once. They were really good.

[@RickJW-OSM]

(3:32) Ah yes! The time honored tradition of all restaurants throughout history, regardless of cuisine. Hot waitresses.

[@Silentbet1of]

You need a bigger reach u have amazing content keep pushing you videos will stand out more

[@MrKIMBO345]

Wow. The sushi business in Japan history were tough.😲

[@randalbuhler9042]

May you be prosperous in all that you do and in all your days and thank you for what you do ‼️

[@m.a.9571]

Man this video is making me hungry frfr

[@PhineasPhule]

I was introduced to sushi about 40 years ago, and to this day I maintain that there are certain fish that can only be properly enjoyed as sushi or sashimi; for me, cooking wrecks the flavour of those noble fish.

[@bskorupk]

5:10 - 5:19 I love the black cowl on the soldier on the right, fits the discussion perfectly! :)

[@kimyo-jong4035]

So Japanese women can say to men, ”go roll me a sushi!"

[@spr1ggan_129]

Just searched around, Janome Sushi is still alive and thriving in the modern world.

[@bananadane]

The young San Francisco workforce line was really good and 100% accurate across the workforce, not just Asian Americans

[@anniewilson5932]

My husband won’t eat anything that has feet. Fins, tentacles or other scuttle-y parts don’t count, therefore we eat a lot of seafood. So far, the best sushi we’ve had in Canada is in Vancouver. Top of our bucket-list is an onsen tour across Japan, eating at the best local ramen places for lunch, and sushi for dinner. Joke’s on whichever credit card company approves me once I’m ready to commit a major felony because I can’t afford an old folks home.

[@Linfamy]

Good luck with that trip.

[@fireaza]

Would your husband eat beef if it came from a cow that was a quadruple amputee?

[@PhineasPhule]

The Kamei Sushi on Thurlow St. in Vancouver (assuming it's still there) had fantastic sushi. The pork shogayaki was also excellent.

[@DiscoChixify]

😅 sushi is amazing and I don’t mind it cheap. Give me a good hole in the wall with an all you can eat menu (phrasing 🤣 I know) at a decent price and I’ll stuff myself full of double the value… or at least try. I can eat many a cut roll by myself in one sitting and use to attempt one of everything until the menu’s got bigger. Thank you for making these videos 😊, I love learning about the history of sushi and it’s many beautiful forms.

[@szasza3273]

The gas station sushi thing makes me believe that Linfamy watches Chubbyemu

[@jewelmathews1408]

Yes!!😂

[@VeteranExpat]

I love your sarcasm! Honorary Irish!

[@Thegreatpineapplelover]

Very nice

[@Jobe-13]

I have no doubt that some of the restaurant owners pimped out their waitresses.

[@EMNstar]

The thumbnail on this video is beautiful

[@JBarry]

you funny man, you receive my subscription.

[@herman1francis]

Damn sushicon must have been lit back in the day

[@usvidragonslayer3091]

Wow. I didnt know this.

[@ElkaPME]

_Saving Private Sushi_

[@bigfootpart4therevengeancing]

It has always interested me how different meals, especially meals created out of necessity and poverty, wound up becoming popular and, in some cases, "elevated" (co-opted) by rich people. I imagine that a big boom in the popularity of sushi in America would have been due to GIs coming home and telling all of their friends about these weird little rice rolls with pieces of raw seafood on them that they had when they were overseas in Japan. I'm sure a lot of Americans were not too keen on the idea, especially since temperature control for food was a relatively new thing, but one must never underestimate the power of a bunch of guys getting drunk together and seeing who can eat the spiciest/weirdest food. Those guys could be poor, middle class or even rich, but it would not matter because, in the end, alcohol makes us all classless.

[@Linfamy]

There might be a vid on how sushi became a global phenomenon sometime in the near future..

[@bigfootpart4therevengeancing]

@Linfamy Sounds good. I might have to go out and get some sushi today. Nothing to do with this video, of course.

[@ChasmChaos]

What's interesting is that functionally similar food/drinks can end up on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum. Sake is functionally the same as Handia, a rice beer originating in Central Eastern India. And yet, Sake is celebrated as a drink for the upper class while Handia is unknown outside of India and known as a cheap, lower-class, almost moonshine-level drink within India.

[@bigfootpart4therevengeancing]

@ChasmChaos I might have to try that sometime, thanks for the heads-up.

[@asharkhan8175]

Please make a video or a series of videos about sengoku war era

[@ABCantonese]

Was going through the work of Sakamoto Ryuichi and came across the ending song for The Seven Samurai. Swore that I heard the Chinese Erhu only to find that the Kokyu sounds basically the same... Inspiration for upcoming videos? Heck, even the artist himself, and everyone else in the industry. It's hard to grasp since it's not really history yet so the ends are hard to grasp, but that Japanese take on classical music is worth a video itself. When you hear classical but you know it's Japanese.

[@maiyenish8552]

Check out how Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church was responsible for developing the sushi market in the U.S. (and maybe other countries around the world)

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

Because Korean diasporas have 20-years head start in know-hows of how to do retails overseas and sell to Westerners, something Japanese don't really have during the 80-90's Bubble Era? Something that Moon's Church took advantages to the full?

[@maiyenish8552]

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 I think it was due to a combination of Japanese grit for excellence, American ingenuity, and Korean aggressive brow beating.... Hopefully Linfamy can provide more light. BTW, the sushi market was being developed in the 80s, in the U.S. Govt approval, refrigeration, speed, distribution, marketing, etc.

[@jonathangrover3176]

Hey Linfamy, I’ve been loving your videos. Would you be interested in doing one about the video game Sekiro? There’s a ton of Buddhist and Shinto imagery, as well as reference to both mythical and historical Japanese figures, that are lost on western players such as myself. Not sure if this is gauche or whatever, but I’d be happy to donate to support the video as I’m sure the community would get a lot out of it. Either way thanks for the great content

[@Hypn0s2]

Also look up the history of fermentation of/with rice, if you want to go down the rabbit hole more.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

I love sushi

[@Linfamy]

You have good taste

[@W4iteFlame]

@@Linfamy wait...if you eat many sushi will you taste like sushi?

[@Linfamy]

@@W4iteFlame correct

[@RoseNZieg]

I burst out laughing when you say that japan was spreading their diplomacy. what an understatement.

[@pyeitme508]

Wow 😳

[@rdzreborn2k7kt]

I got my Sushi kit from Amazon😊

[@wenuledesma5208]

Yo should try argentinian Malbec😉

[@erichayes8445]

I will eat all the sushi and you can't stop me.

[@Linfamy]

👿

[@cathpalug1221]

Using izakaya nobu What a man of culture

[@harlech2]

I lost my shit when you started on the female Sushi Chef line... LOL!

[@agalgonzalez]

In life it is best not to be a dick- Buddha probably

[@ViperousVT]

8:55 Monster Musume 🐍 ❤️

[@idraote]

Not eating seafood gives me different perspective on this decade-long struggle for sushi

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

I have to take a break from drinking coffee or eating when watching your videos. Otherwise the coffee or food ends up on the screen. You a an excellent exquisite typ of ambush humour. Buddha says: _"Excellent exquisite typ of ambush humour is hard to find. When you come across it, enjoy it like your life depends on it."_

[@mr.angelaigorio966]

I was eating sushi while watching this 🙂

[@Linfamy]

:D

[@yourlocalgamer9851]

Have You Ever Talked About Ushi No Koku Mairi?

[@MJ-oj3ng]

idc what you say about gas station sushi, fry's worms made him a better person D:

[@alexv3357]

What's the manga pictured at 4:58?

[@javaks]

I'm gonna open a sushi restaurant with attractive waitresses in bikinis. In fact, forget about the sushi.

[@Linfamy]

Looking forward to it.

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

What about blackjack?

[@emperorfaiz]

You know, there's a restaurant that serves sushi on top of a naked woman lying on the table.

[@atsukorichards1675]

​@@emperorfaiz Which restaurant?

[@AshenForest1]

Yay!!!

[@Linfamy]

Woohoo!

[@AshenForest1]

I won the first message race!!

[@Linfamy]

@@AshenForest1 congrats, you should be proud of all your hard work 👏

[@greekyogurt9997]

That's not fair I was sleeping with this was Uploaded

[@Keelsman]

Woot!

[@hmvollbanane1259]

Just wondering: were there any misunderstandings that introduced a new food to the Japanese after WW2? As here in Germany we got accidentally sent a enormous amount of Mais. After the first hunger winter the Americans asked German representatives what our people needed the most and they responded with "Korn" (German: grains) which the Americans understood as "corn". Hence we got shipped tons of Mais and people ended up eating mais-bread and cakes for quite a while

[@zainmudassir2964]

*0:26* What kind of diplomacy🧐

[@akulagepard9510]

I invite you, my dear Linfamy, to meet my fists and see how completely opposite to perpetually cold they are 😂😂😂😂😂 great video as always

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

I would love to try being a sushi chef. However, I am severely allergic to fish and other seafood.

[@coletterosenhaus4163]

My hands can be 3 temperatures. Icicles, boiling hot or normal. Normal is warm. There’s subcategories like I can have cold and clammy hands. And dry and boiling hands. My hands are usually dry and warm. I love eating sushi. The sushi I will eat is tuna, salmon and yellowtail sushi and avocado sushi. I’m Jewish so only those 3 fish. I’m either unfamiliar with the fish or it’s not Kosher, so. I also like salmon/avocado sushi.

[@agalgonzalez]

I apologize to my father.

[@Infinitebrandon]

Lin sama, my friend's son just passed in a car accident. I've always known sushi and sake are for funerals. I'd appreciate anyone that has advice on funeral sushi. Really 🙏

[@ernestestrada2461]

The black market was how the Yakuza became to be so prominent and Powerful. Yakuza actually made the shortages worse because they bought up so much of the Surplus that they artificially created shortages so they could charge more.

[@ninacaliente8957]

Well, the government storehouse materials that went to the blackmarket through the Yakuza (some via military personnel) to be sold at a markup were mentioned. Lot of US aid got skimmed that way too (with collusion from US personnel getting kickbacks). As I understand it, ordinary businesses also directed their their product to the black market, as farmers did with some of what they grew. That's a risk with price controls being too strict - producers won't produce for the market. But there was, as acknowledged in the video, a lot of straight up theft that benefitted black marketers, and harmed everyone else. But people gotta buy. I've read a paper that had some black market prices. It said the Bank of Japan started collected an index of Black Market prices in Japan in September 1945 (collected monthly). I wish I could it find in a free, easily accessible place in English. I like that sort of data.

[@dennisgiguere5166]

Your making me hungry stop.

[@Linfamy]

I refuse

[@Libbathegreat]

Your illustrations were on point! Wish we had a physical black market where I live, probably safer than using the dark web 😂

[@TaranovskiAlex]

As always, source please... 5:01 and 8:56 🥺

[@KaotikBOOO]

Using a picture of a salmon sushi while these weren't a thing until the Norwegians made them to sell salmon surplus to Japan in the 1960ies isn't really the most relevant thing though

[@tanukibeth7693]

9:05 is it possible to learn this power

[@blownupfishnchips9071]

Pretty sure that Asakusa battle was fought without honor nor humanity.

[@thegatorhator6822]

Damn we were almost free of the scourge.

[@Bella-hk3ds]

5:41 10:20

[@tofu8415]

nom nom

[@nicknssud]

like fish growing with the bacteria vibrio vulnificus haha

[@rachelcookie321]

The standard is ten pieces of sushi? I’ve never gotten 10 pieces when I’ve ordered sushi. It’s usually 6 pieces, occasionally 8.

[@georgewilson7432]

The only thing Curtis LeMay couldn't burn to cinders.