Sunday 20 January 2013

Fish Eggs

There is no greater terror in my world than a table full of pure traditional Japanese food. The sushi and its petty vegetables, the plate of miscellaneous food that I am too ignorant to identify, and the pot of fish eggs. 


Is there a food more pointless than fish eggs? Who was the first person to catch a fish and say, "Let's keep the eggs, they're delicious enough to be eaten as a seperate thing." Fish eggs are desperation food to me, or "wartime food" as someone else put it. Fish eggs would be eaten if options were low, but wouldn't be chosen over anything else.


At this hotel we also got a fish that was mostly fish eggs on the inside. If the fish is mostly fish eggs and not fish meat, don't cook it. It's not food. What if you cut open a chicken steak and the inside was mostly yolk? I am culturally sensitive.