Japanese admit laziness reason for eating sushi

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese admit laziness as main reason for eating sushi
Anastrophe - Nov 7, 2003
Anthropoligical findings suggest that the Japanese as a nation find it too bothersome to cook ...Head Chef for the Imperial Orient Hotel in Tokyo, Wata Wanka was furious with the allegations recently published in American Anthropologistthe fish they eat....

[Milla]

hehe, funny article
actually a friend of mine did say the Japanese must be lazy cooks because of the raw fish they eat and how easy the owners of kulu kulu sushi establishments have it!

[kami gaijin]

I can't really fault them on that one becuase I'm always too lazy to cook. But I think it's a pity they are too lazy to brush their teeth too.

[kamome]

...they are too lazy to brush their teeth too.

I've long held the view that the Japanese have a lazy streak in them a mile wide (much to the surprise of most people who buy into the myth of the "industrious" Japanese). Just work in a Japanese company for a while and you'll understand what I mean.

[Nagged]

I've long held the view that the Japanese have a lazy streak in them a mile wide (much to the surprise of most people who buy into the myth of the "industrious" Japanese). Just work in a Japanese company for a while and you'll understand what I mean.

I'll stick my neck out here...

Some of the guys I've seen do actually work quite hard. At the same time, efficiency is not that good and neither is responsibility.

A lot of people go around with sad and suffering expressions on their faces, including management. Martyrs in their own mind I think.

[devicenull]

meh, i admit to eating ramen dry and uncooked simply because i am too lazy to boil water

[Nagged]

meh, i admit to eating ramen dry and uncooked simply because i am too lazy to boil water

I've been guilty of being lazy in the kitchen too. Must be time to start washing the dishes before they wash themselves...

[Milla]

oh my..i hope you're only kidding. if not...

[devicenull]

meh, i admit to eating ramen dry and uncooked simply because i am too lazy to boil water

I've been guilty of being lazy in the kitchen too. Must be time to start washing the dishes before they wash themselves...

the trick to dishes is that you use paper plates and chopsticks stolen from the local chinese place... i have a drawer full of them. sure, i get some weird looks, but i just throw them away when im done. paper plates were acquired from a recent party. about the only thing i have that gets dirty is non-stick pans, and it takes like 30 seconds to clean them immediately after use and put them away. i have also been guilty of making cooking sheets out of aluminum foil and then throwing away after use. i have cleaning george foreman down to a science as well. end result: i dont have to do ANY dishes and am excluded from the task by my roommates.

i also hate ramen now, well, the shitty ramen we get stateside (mmm maruchan). the evolution of ramen for me went thusly:
yay ramen *makes according to directions* -> meh ramen *smashes into a styrofoam cup, adds hot water* -> gah ramen *smashes in the package, eats raw* -> fuck ramen *doesnt eat*

[Big Booger]

maruchan, campbells, and those other instant "ramen" they have stateside.. shouldn't even get the distinction of being called ramen...

They should be called dried noodles with extremely salty spice pack. LMAO...

That was my college MRE (meals ready to eat) LOL 10 cents a pack for maruchan, and sometimes they were buy 1 get 1 free. LOL

Never again. I too hate cleaning and am considering a portable dishwasher as a xmas gift to myself.

[kamome]

Yeah, the cleanup is the main reason why I hardly cook for myself. And I often let the dishes stack up in the sink until there are no more clean ones in the cupboard, then I just wash them all at once. Of course, if you don't cook too often, that can mean a long interim before the dirty dishes get washed.

Back in the bad old days when I had only one sink out in inaka, I used to brush my teeth over the dirty dishes. Not a pleasant scene, let me tell you.

[Nagged]

Grubs Anonymous Unite!

[leathernick]

meh, i admit to eating ramen dry and uncooked simply because i am too lazy to boil water

I thought you would just eat them a-la-cookie-monster-from-seseme-street style.

[GomiGirl]

Yeah, the cleanup is the main reason why I hardly cook for myself. And I often let the dishes stack up in the sink until there are no more clean ones in the cupboard, then I just wash them all at once. Of course, if you don't cook too often, that can mean a long interim before the dirty dishes get washed.

Back in the bad old days when I had only one sink out in inaka, I used to brush my teeth over the dirty dishes. Not a pleasant scene, let me tell you.

You are SUCH a boy!!

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

I cant belive some of you guys. You actualy end up cleaning dirty dishes. In my university days I would leave them so long that. I got the whole lot and fucked them into a black bag and threw them out. This did not happen once either everytime I pot was so dirty I just trew it out. I didnt care about my Deposit for my flat as knowing that the bastards would use any excuse to keep it, I just never paid the last rent. In my last year I decided to to the desent thing and pay the last months rent. What do you know the bastards kept half of my deposit. The excuse was that the cooker needed cleaning. I spent 2 days cleaning that cooker before I left. even the cooker was 2nd or 3rd or 4th hand and its value was marginal compared to my deposit. So kids the moral, I will never clean a single thing again in a rented flat. (well I will clean to keep the place tidy but not the last day clean). But since i came to japan everything is spotless the zen of tatami has gotten to me.

[kamome]

In my university days I would leave them so long that. I got the whole lot and fucked them into a black bag and threw them out.

I once nearly had to throw out my rice cooker. I cooked rice in it and, after dinner, forgot that I had leftover rice still inside the cooker. TWO MONTHS later, I opened up that thing and nearly died. An actual green cloud erupted from the rice cooker when I opened it. I never knew rice could sustain live cultures for that long. After much scrubbing, the rice cooker was good as knew. I still use it.

[devicenull]

meh, i admit to eating ramen dry and uncooked simply because i am too lazy to boil water

I thought you would just eat them a-la-cookie-monster-from-seseme-street style.

you make no sense... *hands you a straight razor*... now do what must be done

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

I have a worse story than dirty dishes. I was in a shared flat. We all decided to go home (from Uni) over the Easter holidays. Somebody forgot to take a black bad mostly full of thrown away food. After about 2 rather warm weeks of Easter holidays. I was the first to go back. All a could hear was the strangest hum. I opened the kitchen door and the windows and much of the walls was black. From the sheer amount of huge flies. The ground was covered with dead flies wriggling with maggots. and loads were hitting my face as they were escaping out the door I just opened. I closed the door quickly to give myself a chance to think. I bought some 'raid' and put my hand in the door and started spraying. There were to many flies escaping into other rooms I gave up. So I used a nail and carefully put a very small hole in the can. Even as I was holding the can it was getting very cold. I threw it into the Kitchen and waited for about 10 minutes. Then I got a vacuum cleaner and opened the door and sucked up a few thousand flies and their larva. But I had to step somewhere so I was crunching loads of them into the floor. Not a pretty sight, smell or sound. I also threw that vacuum cleaner away.

[kamome]

I have a worse story than dirty dishes...[snip]

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

That is not even the worst image that comes to mind. for weeks fly bodies just used to drop from the cupboard. When washing up there was always a few flies in the water. But they are really cute when they are lying upsidedown