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HN cites it as the debunking of the Norway salmon sushi story.
Andong examines the popular story that Norway invented salmon sushi in Japan in the 1990s. He argues it is largely a myth, pointing to earlier evidence of raw salmon eaten in Japan and elsewhere.
“This myth was disproven by Andong on YouTube.” (HN, 2023)
This myth was disproven by Andong on YouTube. He found a NYTimes article from 1975 about sushi in Japan that included salmon. Watch here: [this video] Edit: Andong also specifically talks about the Nichirei deal.
Debunks the Norway salmon sushi story using a 1975 NYTimes article and the Nichirei deal.
I'm not sure who to trust here. This video says that the Norwegian sushi story is a bit of a myth, or over stated due to poor journalism. [this video] But he definitely has evidence of salmon sushi being eaten before the Norwegians claim to have invented it.
>How The Desperate Norwegian Salmon Industry Created A Sushi Staple This is slightly misleading. Salmon sushi in japan might not have been a thing prior to norway's marketing campaign, but there's plenty of evidence of salmon sushi being a thing outside of japan[1] and being at least somewhat popular. You could argue that if it weren't for acceptance in japan it wouldn't have been a "staple", but that seems a bit tenuous when it was already on magazine covers. [1] [this video]
Evidence of salmon sushi existing outside Japan before the Norwegian campaign.
Salmon for sushi seems not to be the famous story that was going around. Like, it has all the tenets of a nice fake story, talking about Japan and how a foreign more familiar power outsmarted them, but apparently salmon was popular way before Norway theoretically started marketing it: [this video]
Shows salmon was popular in Japan before Norway's supposed marketing.
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