After you read about the history sushi, you probably don’t think that America could have done anything to sushi to “Americanize” it. You are very much wrong. First let’s understand how sushi came to America.
Sushi originally came to America when a lot of Japanese people immigrated from Japan during the 1870s. The people came to America to escape the ternary from their government. Sushi became very popular in the early 1900s with the highest classes in America. Then the Japanese government started to harass America so America decided to just stop eating sushi. After World War 2 was over and many of the tensions were gone, around the 1960s, people were starting to reintroduce sushi to the US. People accepted the sushi again and it has stayed and popularized ever since. By the 1980s, sushi restaurants were across the US, mainly in the west coast. So sushi has only been popular like it is today for about 40 to 50 years.
Even though the people accepted the idea of sushi, they still didn’t like the look of sushi. America didn’t like the look of the seaweed being on the outside of the sushi roll. They also didn’t like how traditional and simple the rolls were. To appease the American people, sushi creators in America started to have the rice be on the outside of the rolls and the rolls be more complex. They also started to put more American traditional foods in the rolls like cream cheese, brown rice, or as crazy as it sounds, avocado. Most fruits, vegetables, and everything other than fish used in sushi rolls are used to take up space is sushi rolls. More other things taking up space in sushi rolls means less fish and less money to buy fish.
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