Many of you think of sushi as the rolls that you eat today with crab, cucumber, avocado, seaweed, and rice on the outside. This is not how sushi originally started.
Sushi originally started with fish on cooked rice. The the fish would sit not the cooked rice and ferment for weeks to months. The smell was described as a mixture of vinegar, fish, and cottage cheese by scientists who recreated the original sushi. When you would eat the sushi you would only eat the fish and just throw away the rice.
After many years, people started adding vinegar into the rice so that the smell of cottage cheese was not as strong. With the smell being better and less strong, people found the rice less gross and people started to eat the rice and the fish together. The fish and rice were not eaten like nigiri but were eaten like you would eat a steak and mashed potatoes together. People then wanted to make sushi more neat to eat so they had the idea to wrap the fish and rice in seaweed to make it easier to eat. This was what created the sushi rolls we know today as nigiri and maki. We have eaten sushi like this since then and I am personally thankful that we don’t eat fish that smells like cottage cheese anymore.
Sushi in Lincoln 