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Sushi as a sandwich

Some of the earliest references to "sushi" I was able to find on ProQuest refer to it as a kind of sandwich.
Sushi, a popular Japanese sandwich, consists of a slab of amanori on which is placed boiled rice and strips of meat. Then the sushi is rolled like a jelly roll and cut into transverse slices.
(Chicago Tribune, Jan 22 1932)
If you're a sandwich fancier, try sushi when you visit Japan. Northwest Airlines advises tourists that sushi is a rice sandwich that is popular with natives and visitors. Shrimp, eel, egg slices and other fish are rolled into or placed on top of a ball of rice. This is rolled inside a thin sheet of sun-baked seaweed. It's dipped in soy sauce and pickled ginger-root.
(L.A. Times, Dec. 29, 1957)
Similarly, a 1958 article refers to "sushi sandwiches".

Actually, sushi was described as a sandwich as late as 1981 in the Washington Post:
SUSHI: These seaweed-vinegared-rice-and-raw-fish sandwiches are traditionally served at tiny bars in Japan.
  

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[nq:1]Some of the earliest references to "sushi" I was able to find on ProQuest refer to it as a kind ... [/nq] The Japanese (unlike many Gaijin) usually eat them with their hands, so maybe there's some kind of sense to that description. id=1080742004 ) refers to a "fried chickpea sandwich".

  • [nq:1]Some of the earliest references to "sushi" I was able to find on ProQuest refer to it as a kind ...
  • [/nq] The Japanese (unlike many Gaijin) usually eat them with their hands, so maybe there's some kind of sense to that description.
  • id=1080742004 ) refers to a "fried chickpea sandwich".
  • Would the word "falafel" really confuse too many members of their audience?
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[nq:1]Some of the earliest references to "sushi" I was able to find on ProQuest refer to it as a kind ... as late as 1981 in the Washington Post: SUSHI: These seaweed-vinegared-rice-and-raw-fish sandwiches are traditionally served at tiny bars in Japan.[/nq]
The Japanese (unlike many Gaijin) usually eat them with their hands, so maybe there's some kind of sense to that description.

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[nq:1]Some of the earliest references to "sushi" I was able to find on ProQuest refer to it as a kind ... meat. Then the sushi is rolled like a jelly roll and cut into transverse slices. (Chicago Tribune, Jan 22 1932)[/nq]
Might this be similar to the fish butty of my Manchester childhood?
John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]Some of the earliest references to "sushi" I was able to find on ProQuest refer to it as a kind of sandwich. [/nq]
Well, that would make sense. Then you could throw away the sushi and eat the bread. That way at least you get SOMETHING out of it. Besides bad breath and a tapeworm.
\\P. Schultz
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[nq:2]Some of the earliest references to "sushi" I was able to find on ProQuest refer to it as a kind of sandwich. [/nq]
[nq:1]Well, that would make sense. Then you could throw away the sushi and eat the bread. That way at least you get SOMETHING out of it. Besides bad breath and a tapeworm. \\P. Schultz[/nq]
We are not amused.
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

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[nq:1]Some of the earliest references to "sushi" I was able to find on ProQuest refer to it as a kind ... meat. Then the sushi is rolled like a jelly roll and cut into transverse slices. (Chicago Tribune, Jan 22 1932)[/nq]
I tried sushi once. Took it home and cooked it. Tasted like fish.

Mark
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[nq:1]Speaking of sandwiches, a recent article in The Scotsman (http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1080742004 ) refers to a "fried chickpea sandwich". Would the word "falafel" really confuse too many members of their audience?[/nq]
What evidence do you have that it was falafel?
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[nq:2]Speaking of sandwiches, a recent article in The Scotsman ... word "falafel" really confuse too many members of their audience?[/nq]
[nq:1]What evidence do you have that it was falafel?[/nq]
Other news reports of the same incident referred to the same falafel vendor.
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[nq:2]What evidence do you have that it was falafel?[/nq]
[nq:1]Other news reports of the same incident referred to the same falafel vendor. Given the context, does the description suggest any other possibility to you?[/nq]
Sans those other news reports, it could have been chumus, I suppose (although I don't know whether the beans are fried to make chumus).
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[nq:1]"Allah's Famous Falafel Stand, next to the police station".[/nq]
Allah has obviously fallen on hard times.

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Mark Barratt
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[nq:2]Other news reports of the same incident referred to the samefalafel vendor. Given the context, does the description suggest any otherpossibility to you?[/nq]
[nq:1]Sans those other news reports, it could have been chumus, I suppose (although I don't know whether the beans are ... (c) American sites refer to it as a dip. (I know it asa spread as well as as a dip.)[/nq]
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