I don't know who said what, so I clipped everybody's name (E,t <g>)
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> > Example: I don't eat raw fish. I know that lots of people adore sushi
> > bars, but I can't bring myself to try it.
>

I don't eat raw fish, either (I don't eat much fish of any kind).

A friend of mine adores sushi and I like tempura well enough to get
through an evening of her great company. I wasn't sure I was
going enjoy sitting across the table from her, though. However, when her
sushi plate came, there were two shrimp things (a cube of cold rice,
shrimp on top, wrapped in a dark green weed [seaweed?}).

Both the shrimp were pink. I didn't know enough about the other fish to
know whether or not it was cooked. A little investigating proved that it
was, too.

Tee hee hee. All the folks that I know that were bragging about eating raw
fish were either misinformed or just rattling everyone else's cage.

Sashimi is the raw stuff and it isn't offered anywhere around here. But
that hasn't stopped most of the people I know from talking about cool it
is to eat "raw" fish. <g>

The shrimp were very large and very good. It's the cold glob of rice and a
huge weed ribbon I can't abide.

Elaine, too