and declaring sushi as just an exotic form of some western food absolutely does sell more since it becomes "oh look the Japanese have such a quirky take on toast" rather than, this is a different food with a different purpose and different cultural meaning and normalizes the western food category in the process.
Literally no one in the history of mankind has or ever will say "Hmmm, I wonder what kind of toast I should have", and make sushi, or "I like avocado toast, I should try Sushi because it's basically the same thing"
The reason the categorization game is fun is because you end up with absurdly different foods defined as the same thing. If people actually started interpreting toast as being similar in any way to sushi, we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.
i'm not saying it's not fun, but like other things that are fun but further imperialism (like idk Call of Duty), it still normalizes western perspective of things all while playing into a collective consensus that western things are the default
why not just say sushi and toast are carb based foods, and leave it at that?
(plus also sushi is at least closer in form to bagels with lox but again, that's not really the point. might as well say, some people like fish and carbs together)
not gonna repeat myself, this game promotes imperialism
Declaring sushi to be a type of toast does nothing to sell sushi and hurts the definition of toast.
If we iterate this enough, we can fit all foods into all categories, destroying any utility in western food categories.
or reject them in the first place
and declaring sushi as just an exotic form of some western food absolutely does sell more since it becomes "oh look the Japanese have such a quirky take on toast" rather than, this is a different food with a different purpose and different cultural meaning and normalizes the western food category in the process.
Literally no one in the history of mankind has or ever will say "Hmmm, I wonder what kind of toast I should have", and make sushi, or "I like avocado toast, I should try Sushi because it's basically the same thing"
The reason the categorization game is fun is because you end up with absurdly different foods defined as the same thing. If people actually started interpreting toast as being similar in any way to sushi, we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.
i'm not saying it's not fun, but like other things that are fun but further imperialism (like idk Call of Duty), it still normalizes western perspective of things all while playing into a collective consensus that western things are the default
why not just say sushi and toast are carb based foods, and leave it at that?
(plus also sushi is at least closer in form to bagels with lox but again, that's not really the point. might as well say, some people like fish and carbs together)
there we go