"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
Waiting for "California toast" to become the official food of Millennials...
The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
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Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#32"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
That’s so funny because my wife will only eat the California roll but without avocado. She doesn’t like raw fish or avocado. So I will often order “the California roll, hold the avocado (and wasabi and ginger)”
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#33"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
Except in the case of the California burrito which typically adds French fries [1] into the mix [1] https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/california-burrito/
In my experience a california burrito has french fries _and_ guac (avacado).
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#34"California" as a modifier to food generally means "with avocado" If you get a "California burger" it will have avocado on it
That’s so funny because my wife will only eat the California roll but without avocado. She doesn’t like raw fish or avocado. So I will often order “the California roll, hold the avocado (and wasabi and ginger)”
so just rice and seaweed and imitation crab
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, I'll give you Japanese-Canadian in the title. All the more to his credit that he figured out what the locals could handle back then.
This whole class of problems goes away if HN simply globally replaced 'Canadian' with 'Outdoorsy': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqQCyAQBgXY&t=115s A quick check shows this is a big improvement in clarity - Outdoorsy Bacon, Outdoorsy Tire. More ambitiously, there's renaming Canada to The Great Outdoors. The .ou country TLD is available and a lot less confusing than .ca
Canada gets such a free pass, being loved by everybody and all. Once the world figures out what we're really up to...
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#36Food with placenames often are misleading and not from the placename that makes up the dish: french fries, hamburger, german chocolate cake, danish, wiener, etc. add california roll to that list. [and how could I forget Hawaiian pizza? as noted in sibling comment] Also, the headline is wrong, it was not a Canadian chef but rather a Japanese chef living in Canada.
Slight correction – French fries are in fact from France. It's just that the name "French fries" is mostly only used in America.
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#37Food with placenames often are misleading and not from the placename that makes up the dish: french fries, hamburger, german chocolate cake, danish, wiener, etc. add california roll to that list. [and how could I forget Hawaiian pizza? as noted in sibling comment] Also, the headline is wrong, it was not a Canadian chef but rather a Japanese chef living in Canada.
Slight correction – French fries are in fact from France. It's just that the name "French fries" is mostly only used in America.
I thought they were fried in Greece
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to the Chef who was born in Japan, he says they add "California" to names of things as a stand-in for any place in north America because they recognize California but may not recognize Vancouver or Podunk Washington, etc.
I would try a Podunk roll
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Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#39Dutch Apple pies are made in a Dutch oven, not the Netherlands
Re: The California roll was invented by a Japanese-Canadian chef (2020)
#40I ate at Tojo's years ago, 2 points:
1. It was the best sushi I've ever eaten. I love sushi but I'm not really a "sushi snob" - I'm more than happy getting some premade sushi at the grocery store (usually). But the quality at Tojo's was like nothing I'd ever experienced.
2. After I ate there, I wanted to research the "California roll inventor" story, and I remember finding a whole bunch of chefs that had claimed to invent the California roll. Too lazy to re-look up that info, but I distinctly remember being wary of the "California roll inventor" claim after that, mainly thinking it was quite possible a bunch of chefs came up with similar ideas independently.