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Friday’s dilemma: Is sushi girl food?

Lucy Kippist

by Lucy Kippist

11 Feb 07:00am

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Here at The Punch, we pride ourselves on bringing you the big issues. This is not one of them.

That said, Punchie Ant Sharwood has been bugging me all week with this dilemma. Over to you, Ant.

So I’m sitting outside the mall with a tray of cheap takeaway sushi the other day. Two boofy tradesmen sit next to me and light up a B&H each. And I can’t bring myself to eat my sushi in front of them. I just can’t. It just feels way too… effeminate or something.

To be honest, I don’t even know why I bought the sushi in the first place. Normally I’m a laksa kinda dude if I’m having cheap mall Asian takeaway. Pretty sure I felt like something healthy that day, but I wish I’d just stuck to my culinary guns. I hate sushi. It’s clammy. Bleah.

By the way, the sushi joint was full of women. It was like an episode of Sex and the City in there. Subliminally, I think they were telling me something.

Look, I have no need to affirm my masculinity through food, or through anything really. But I just can’t help thinking that if you’re not Japanese, then sushi is fare that should be reserved for the fairer sex. Am I right or am I right?

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    • Bobby Huge says:

      11:03am | 11/02/11

      I agree.  My girlfriend tastes exactly like sushi.  I dumped the last one coz she tasted like off prawns.

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      11:28am | 11/02/11

      Lies. You never had a girlfriend. What a woman tastes like is known only to men who have tasted it. We keep that a secret so we know a virgin when we see one.

    • Bobby Huge says:

      11:57am | 11/02/11

      Zeta - i like a girl that tastes herself.  Are you single?

    • Bobby Huge's EX partner says:

      12:31pm | 11/02/11

      Bobby…that’s the last straw…you said i tasted like sweet vanilla icecream, AND that you weren’t going to trawl through sites like this no more looking for women!

      You heartless man…

    • Bobby Huge says:

      12:44pm | 11/02/11

      I’m joking Sharon. I don’t even know Zeta.  Geez cut me some slack.  What with your back and your infection its been tough for me too.  I’m just at the library waiting for my interview at Centrelink about that abattoirs job Kev told me about.  Can you get KFC tonight please?  Love you, Bobby. xx

    • TimB says:

      12:51pm | 11/02/11

      lol Zeta.

      This is what you get for choosing a feminine handle.

    • AdamC says:

      01:22pm | 11/02/11

      That is very funny.

    • Amy Sturt says:

      03:54pm | 11/02/11

      Poor Zeta.  It’s ok, hun.  I still think you’re manly and stuff…

    • cry the naked sausage says:

      12:29am | 12/02/11

      Have witnessed an overalled muscular bloke effortlessly sliding a sausage roll down his throat.
      Lucky the casing wasn’t made of seaweed.
      Cause I might haved yelled out ‘ya bloody poofter’!
      Lucky for me I didn’t!
      Or was it?
      I’m ‘sposed to be a Man - yet I’m so confused between seaweed and pastry.
      Will there ever be be a cooking show that caters for me?.

    • Tony of Poorakistan says:

      11:05am | 11/02/11

      Quite correct. 
       
      I suggest you read ‘‘Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche’’ and simply replace the word quiche with seaweed.

      Reply

    • AFR says:

      11:06am | 11/02/11

      There are some thigngs men should not eat. raw rish wrapped in rice and seaweed is one of those things.

      Reply

    • Shane says:

      12:01pm | 11/02/11

      One thing men should do is learn how to spell, champ.

    • Ben81 says:

      12:43pm | 11/02/11

      Well you’re in luck AFR, because you’ll find it difficult to find ‘raw fish’ in a sushi roll even if you wanted it.

    • AFR says:

      06:23pm | 11/02/11

      I know how to spell, just my fat fingers hit the r instead of the f, which is the key directly below.

    • TChong says:

      11:09am | 11/02/11

      Damn straight ! Girly rubbish.
      Real blokes, and any decent shiela would go a steak sanger and a schooie of VeeB.
      The food of the Gods.

      Reply

    • Jade says:

      11:21am | 11/02/11

      VB… I don’t think so… i prefer real beer :D as does my boyfriend!

    • Keen Observer says:

      12:09pm | 11/02/11

      VB is a childs beer, way too sweet for a man!

    • Robert Smissen, rural SA, God's own country says:

      12:35pm | 11/02/11

      VB’s newest sales slogan, “VB drunk by bogans everywhere ! ! ! ”

    • hot tub political machine says:

      01:32pm | 11/02/11

      VB is a beer?

      Wattery rubbish. If there was beer that you could make like a cordial - only water it down too much - it would be VB.

      Try a beer that well - has some flavour. Dark ales are a good start.

    • The Drak Knight says:

      02:08pm | 11/02/11

      I once went to KFC at 10am. They advised that they had run out of chicken…........
        Also, gave up the pingers and since then have noticed a greater consumption in sushi…....and all foods in general!! 
        Back on topic.  Nothing beats Chicken Schnitzel and gravy!!!!  Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm…....

    • Topsy says:

      02:54pm | 11/02/11

      TChong

      Real blokes can say “shit happens” in a man’s world and be the perfect articulate gentleman amongst beautiful sheilas.

      Oh by the way “e” before the “i” in sheila. Please try and take it like a man in my correction of the spelling of “sheila” Don’t reply like a wanker!

    • Barney says:

      03:41pm | 11/02/11

      VB - the only beer worse than VB is Corona -don’t mind California rolls though , not to be confused with Sushi

    • iansand says:

      11:09am | 11/02/11

      Something I have never considered.  Thanks for something else to worry about.

      Eat sushi like no one is watching seems to be the way to go here.

      Reply

    • Jern says:

      11:09am | 11/02/11

      High protein, high carb and vitamin filled seaweed is now a girly food? You say what? Maybe a california roll… or perhaps “cooked” tuna or maybe some CHICKEN sushi is entirely effeminate. But a hunk of hunted to extinction blue fin tuna, wrapped in gluggy carbs and covered in weed of the sea is manliness at it’s best. All you need to do now is put that nutrition to work by doing some squats and deadlifts and HTFU.

      Reply

    • majority says:

      11:09am | 11/02/11

      do you mean sushi or California Rolls? Sushi is raw fish on its own. Sashimi is raw fish on a bed of rice. California Rolls are the seaweed rolls filled with rice and other things (often called Sushi). But yes, wouldn’t see too many tradies eating any of these. But you are a girl? So why are you asking if it is girl food? Why am I commenting on this? I’ve got no idea.
      Woomph <Disappears in a puff of logic>

      Reply

    • TimB says:

      11:54am | 11/02/11

      Ant’s a girl?

      This is news. Hope Ant is as equally shocked as I.

    • Nathan says:

      12:39pm | 11/02/11

      You do realise that you got that completely mixed up?

      Sashimi is the raw fish, on it’s own, thinly sliced. Sushi is vinegared rice served with various ingredients (be it fish, chicken, egg, whatever). Rolls wrapped in nori (seaweed) are makizushi. A california roll is simply one variety of makizushi, generally made inside out and with cucumber, crab and avocado.

    • Stephy says:

      01:42pm | 11/02/11

      Hosomaki is minature sushi rolls. Futomaki are the larger rolls. Nigiri is raw fish on rice. Sashimi is just the fish.

      All are types of sushi.

    • Sludger says:

      11:10am | 11/02/11

      This all sounds a bit fishy to me.  I think you are coming the raw prawn here.

      Reply

    • James1 says:

      11:10am | 11/02/11

      Friday night is sushi and milkshakes night at my place.  I can’t wait.  Then again, when deciding what we would have with the milkshakes on Fridays, I proposed hot dogs but was voted down by my wife and daughter.

      I think that means you are right, Ant, at least insofar as my domestic democracy is concerned.

      Reply

    • A.K.A. says:

      12:52pm | 11/02/11

      Voted down by your wife and daughter? 

      A REAL man would have told them whats what raspberry

      (I’m still trying to imagine what raw fish, milk and soy sauce would taste like without almost vomiting in my own mouth)

    • James1 says:

      01:18pm | 11/02/11

      We drink the milkshakes while we make the sushi, AKA.  Any other course of action would not be pleasant.  Indeed, that is why I voted for hot dogs.

    • Stephy says:

      01:44pm | 11/02/11

      That’s reassuring, James1. The thought of eating sushi and drinking milkshakes together is unnerving. My poor stomach just settled from a night of gastro and now it’s churning again at the thought.

    • James1 says:

      02:28pm | 11/02/11

      See what happens when you have democracy?  Sushi and milkshakes.  Take note, Egypt…

    • Tim says:

      02:51pm | 11/02/11

      Fish Milkshake?
      I’m sure I saw that on Fear Factor once.
      Disturbing.

    • Erick says:

      11:13am | 11/02/11

      Your comment:Sushi is a feminist plot to oppress men. Stick to pizza.

      Reply

    • Stephy says:

      01:46pm | 11/02/11

      Sushi is cheaper. $2.30 a roll and 3 rolls fill you up. Unless you’re buying Domino’s pizzas, sushi is inexpensive.

    • Elphaba says:

      11:13am | 11/02/11

      Blechh.  I can stand sushi. I can’t stand fish, full stop. Eat a curry.  Nom nom nom!

      Reply

    • Jade says:

      11:23am | 11/02/11

      Yeah I would have to agree with you there… I ate it once (with chicken) then was queezy for the rest of the day.  Fish is just iik, it stinks!!

      But my boyfriend loves it, he is a wizz at making it at home! So I don’t think its really only a girly thing!

    • NicoleG says:

      11:42am | 11/02/11

      I’m with you Elphaba, if it’s from the sea, it ain’t for me. I have huge problems even touching prawns. Yuck!!!

    • fairsfair says:

      01:02pm | 11/02/11

      Yes - my slogan has been used! Thanks Nicole, you have made my day smile

      I am with you, but I love sushi. It took me a few goes to absolutely love it, but as long as it is chicken (ie cooked) I can handle the seaweed.

      I am assuming the seaweed grows in tidal pools so I can stand by my from the sea not for me claim - it is different wink

    • Elphaba says:

      01:22pm | 11/02/11

      @NicoleG, everyone in my family loves prawns.  They always look like they are having so much fun eating them, but just the look of it… eww.  Those beady little eyes… get it away….

    • Stephy says:

      01:48pm | 11/02/11

      With you there, Elphaba. Fish just isn’t tasty.

    • NicoleG says:

      01:58pm | 11/02/11

      Elphaba, same here. My husband just loves them and watching him eat them makes me ill. Definitely the beady eyes ewwww. And don’t get me started on oysters, I’ll heave..

      fairsfair, I have to fess up, I stole that one from you ages ago. Can’t remember when or what it was about, but I liked it lots and have never forgotten it. Thanks smile

    • Elphaba says:

      02:49pm | 11/02/11

      @NicoleG, oysters look like snot!  Again, the rest of the family loves them. 

      Guess who’s the black sheep tongue laugh

    • stephen says:

      11:16am | 11/02/11

      Every skinny young thing lines up in Adelaide street for their dose of rice and seaweed.
      I’m too good-mannered to tell them, however, that the black rolls have a healthy dose of mayo. in each and every one of them.
      Fat ?
      You bet.

      Reply

    • Richard says:

      01:46pm | 11/02/11

      That sushi shop on Adelaide street that always has a line out the front stretching down as far as starbucks is THE BEST, super super cheap, the rolls are way bigger than normal, and are delicious! Especially the soft shell crab nom nom nom.

    • hot tub political machine says:

      02:09pm | 11/02/11

      Tory - Laksa house, corner of Gawler place and Flinders St. awesome stuff for those who like the food at the markets

    • Bilby says:

      03:26pm | 11/02/11

      You can get sushi in China town? How multicultural of them.

    • Jugg says:

      04:51pm | 11/02/11

      So you eat Sushi from a food hall / shopping centre and you wonder why its quality is questionable?

      I expect you stop off at Wendy’s for the Shake-n-Dog as well and wonder why there’s more meat in the shake than the dog.

    • Tory Shepherd

      Tory Shepherd says:

      11:18am | 11/02/11

      Urgh, I hate sushi. And I’m a girl. I have heaps of girlfriends who love it, who learned to make it, who get together and roll their own.

      But the distinction between sushi and sashimi is important - I’ve had some beautiful sashimi washed down with sake. Mmmm m. I think the crappy gluggy sitting-at-room-temperature-in-a-food-hall sushi (rolls) are just a way to rort wankers.

      Reply

    • Elphaba says:

      11:26am | 11/02/11

      @Tory, and a delightful way to get food poisoning, by the sounds of it. 

      Mu mum would agree with you on the sashimi though.

    • Gregg says:

      11:29am | 11/02/11

      Maybe a bit of chopped leaf in there Tors and sus hi could have a whole new meaning!
      Then subway would have to do something with their Cookies but not too sure what we could have Maccas and HJs doing.

    • Janey says:

      11:44am | 11/02/11

      Such a delightful turn of phrase.  Charming.

    • Honestly.... says:

      11:48am | 11/02/11

      I love how people just throw labels out there to support an otherwise ridiculous assertion.  Sushi (whatever the distinction) isn’t effeminate, nor is it masculine.  It’s food.  It’s no more a way to rort so-called “wankers” (now there’s a nice bit of intolerance from an objective professional) than McDonalds is a way to rort bogans.

    • Tory Shepherd

      Tory Shepherd says:

      12:08pm | 11/02/11

      Sorry, Janey, it was a bit rough. I just hate that all those department store food halls get away with overpriced, second-rate, stale versions of delicious dishes.

      And people get so excited about them when, just a short walk away (in Adelaide anyway) is Chinatown with cheaper, fresher, tastier goodies.

    • nipponophile says:

      12:18pm | 11/02/11

      Oh abso -freakin -lutely Tors!! Give me perfectly cut, silky sashimi over urrrghy rice, mirin and god- know’s -what any day! ha!

      and besides, fugu is WAAAY manly, Ant!  ( I dare ya!)

    • Tim the Toolman says:

      11:21am | 11/02/11

      A real man eats whatever the hell he wants, including sushi.  If I want to eat little cupcakes with frosting on top, who’s going to stop me?

      Reply

    • Tony of Poorakistan says:

      11:21am | 11/02/11

      Actually, I have to propose an addendum ... it is OK to eat sushi off a naked woman.

      Reply

    • stephen says:

      12:31am | 12/02/11

      You mean honey with carraway seeds, dopey.
      (I came back in my next life as a bull-ant.)

    • Pete says:

      11:22am | 11/02/11

      tranlslated into english, Sushi means BAIT

      Reply

    • papachango says:

      11:23am | 11/02/11

      The only perception of sushi girliness comes from the appallingly trashy ‘chick-lit’ novel Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes.

      Yeah OK, I admit I read it - was seriously bored on a plane, travelling and had a shortage of novels in English.

      If you want to be manly and still eat sushi, just get the unagi (eel) one. Looks like somthing even Bear Grylls would gag on

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      11:26am | 11/02/11

      You know what’s for women? Being concerned about what men think. Would you be cool with eating sushi if those two tradies finished their smokes and started violently pashing each other? You were defining yourself by what you perceive other men to do. You are a man, you do what a man does, no matter what that is. If a man chooses to eat sushi, that is a manly activity, because a man does it. If you look at your sushi and think, ‘am I a man?’ you are not a man.

      A man buys sushi and says ‘I’m going to eat the shit out of this sushi!’

      A woman buys sushi and says ‘I’m just going to eat a little bit because I don’t want to get fat, also, shopping’.

      A man is eating his sushi he thinks ‘Damn b****! This is some fine ass sushi up in my mouth! Mmm! Mother f****ing Japanese shit up in this mother b**** feel like going super-sayan on a mother f****er.’

      A woman is eating her sushi and thinks ‘I wish I was eating like, a whole tub of ice cream right now. I wish a man would just love me for who I am.’

      A man finishes his sushi he’s all like ‘Holy shit that was some sushi. I’m so pumped I’m going to take these chopsticks and fight wolves with them! SHIT! Poison your shit with wasabi! Fighting dragons up in this b****!’

      A woman finishes her sushi, and she is still hungry.

      Reply

    • Economist says:

      12:11pm | 11/02/11

      Funny, brilliant, and sage advice. Hell I’ve even printed this one for my wallet so the next time my son asks what’s a man I’ll whip this out.

    • jern says:

      12:33pm | 11/02/11

      damn straight zeta. we should spar some time. i have some fully sick brazilian jujitsu moves i want to try out.

    • Shifter says:

      12:39pm | 11/02/11

      I’ll have what she’s having…

    • Matt says:

      01:49pm | 11/02/11

      I once stabbed a man with my sushi roll for looking at my sushi roll.

    • Bobby Huge says:

      02:05pm | 11/02/11

      Zeta, are you a bloke?  I thought you were a chick before.  I’m not gay ok.  If you are a chick its cool I’m up for it but not gay stuff.  My GF has left me too so I’m not cheating or anything.  She is constantly spying on me and won’t let me live my life.  She can keep the computer and the spiderman duna I don’t ever want to see her again.

    • ZSRenn says:

      11:31am | 11/02/11

      Tell that to the 200kg Sumo wrestler. To the man with the B&H smokers next to him. Get them to eat your wasabi and you will soon see who the real man is! (No Pun Intended)

      Reply

    • Robert Smissen, rural SA, God's own country says:

      12:40pm | 11/02/11

      Wasabi is for people too wussy to eat raw Jalapenos

    • Tim the Toolman says:

      01:47pm | 11/02/11

      “Wasabi is for people too wussy to eat raw Jalapenos “

      WTF?  Jalapenos are a soft mans chilli!  Eat a habanero or a naga jolokia!

    • Stephy says:

      01:57pm | 11/02/11

      You eat Jalapenos and call yourself a man? Sheesh, Don’t look me in the eye and say that until you’ve had a HABANERO! Or better still, if you can take a third of a teaspoon of Dave’s Ultimate Insanity Hot Sauce (which was banned from the hot food festival for being too hot) and not twitch a muscle.
      Which my granny can do. Literally. She tried some (I got it for my hubby for his b’day) and not a muscle moved. Now THAT’S self control, and she’s 80.
      http://www.daves.com.au/web/15.htm

    • Kingmakers says:

      02:28pm | 11/02/11

      I have a half bottle of habanero sauce with my eggs every day for breakfast.
      I also have haemorrhoids the size of King Island.

    • James1 says:

      02:41pm | 11/02/11

      Stephy,

      I once fried a chopped habanero with onions for a stir fry.  The smell alone made my eyes water.  We didn’t eat the stir fry.

    • Lou says:

      03:09pm | 11/02/11

      Stephy: That reminds me of that Simpsons ep when Homer eats the crazy hot chili and is tripping out of his mind for days.

      But in all seriousness - jalepenos are for children and people with irratable bowel syndrome.

    • CJ Morgan says:

      11:33am | 11/02/11

      I have a bumper sticker that says

      “Sushi - known to the rest of the world as ‘bait’”

      Reply

    • Gregg says:

      11:36am | 11/02/11

      Its kind of one of those foods that has less appeal than something wrapped in pastries that those Boofy tradies might tuck into but there are some really great pies about that hopefully have more good cuts than offal in them.

      But drop the h and add an ‘s and you have susi’s and there is a work of art in rolling a good one which kind of reminds me of the new boys trick that the office girls delighted in playing when they told new boy doing the lunches was his job - and I’ll have a ” Honey rollover and lettus on top “

      Anyway, survivable with some good sauces to dip them into.

      Reply

    • Tim says:

      11:38am | 11/02/11

      Sushi is one of those foods that is seen as “cool” through it’s depiction in TV,  movies and the like.
      As women are more likely to be susceptible to these food trends they have flocked to it.
      So no, it’s not chick food although it is mostly eaten by females

      Reply

    • Daniel says:

      11:40am | 11/02/11

      Your comment:Sushi is trendy cutting edge food. It is too expensive in Sydney though.

      Reply

    • papachango says:

      12:35pm | 11/02/11

      Erm, it was cutting edge in, oh, about 1983. Now they cost 2 bucks in any shopping mall. 

      Are you from Coonabaraban and is this your first time in the big smoke?

    • Tony of Poorakistan says:

      01:49pm | 11/02/11

      As an aside, and a true story, I stopped in Coonabarabran one night, accidentally walked into the bottle dept instead of the front bar and all you could see from arsehole to breakfast time were bottles of McWilliams Cream Sherry. On walking into the front bar, I saw a bunch of presumably locals drinking sherry out of 5 ounce glasses. 
       
      I grabbed a six-pack and ran like buggery. Never been back.

    • Dave-o says:

      11:45am | 11/02/11

      If you want to assert you masculinity at lunch order a steak and a pot. The rarer the better. If its still bleeding when it reaches you, congratulations you’ve reached the top pillar of manliness.

      Reply

    • Rick says:

      11:54am | 11/02/11

      The tradies are probably afraid to eat raw octopus, squishy smoked eel, or yukke (raw beef mixed up with a raw egg yolk). Whaddabunchapussies.

      Reply

    • Lou says:

      03:22pm | 11/02/11

      The tradies are probably afraid to eat anything that did not originally eat grass & is not well done.

    • Lou says:

      03:23pm | 11/02/11

      The tradies are probably afraid to eat anything that did not originally eat grass & is not well done.

    • j man says:

      06:53pm | 11/02/11

      If they were real tradies why are they smoking B&H? should be champion ruby or at least winnie blues

    • Markus says:

      11:54am | 11/02/11

      Real sushi, sashimi and fresh made california rolls are fantastic.

      The stuff you get in the little plastic trays where every piece looks exactly the same is just crap.
      All it does is give off the appearance of being healthy without the added effort of actually being healthy. So yes, it is for girls.

      Reply

    • AdamC says:

      11:55am | 11/02/11

      Caution, food snobbery ahead:.

      Sushi and sashimi have to be incredibly fresh and made from very high quality ingredients to be good. Otherwise, they aint good. I think you have to exercise a high degree of discretion on sushi at foodhalls.

      As for those awful cooked tuna and chicken schnitzel handrolls, they aren’t for anyone. Yikes.

      Reply

    • The Badger says:

      01:02pm | 11/02/11

      snobbery alert

      I’ve eaten sashimi in a restaurant in Tokyo where they dissected live fish right in front of you and whacked it on a plate.

      Me, I prefer Toro. - No they didn’t have a live bluefin. Maguro was fresh from the Tokyo fish market though

    • Lou says:

      01:13pm | 11/02/11

      Adam, man that ain’t food snobbery, that’s just common sense as far as I’m concerned.
      Anything that has been sitting in a food court counter display for god knows how long, and was originally made by a couple of greasy teenage bogans with poor personal hygiene should not be consumed under any circumstances, this goes double for raw fish.

    • Macca says:

      12:27pm | 11/02/11

      Ant, if you are really this concerned about what some tradies think of your food selection your choice of Sushi for lunch really shouldn’t be your first concern.

      Way to focus on the old self-esteem there fella, next time, just ask them both for a hug.

      To add constructively, no, sushi is not girls food and can be delicious, but it’s unlikely to replace any BBQ plans I have in the future.

      Reply

    • Joan says:

      12:32pm | 11/02/11

      Ant .... if you want to show your a man a real Ozzie testosterone man you .... then get some tomato sauce ... squirt it over your sushi…. then shovel it into your mouth. and wash it down with a beer ... the way real Ozzie blokes do with chips, pies , sausage rolls at the footy.  No doubt there….. your a man!

      Reply

    • Lou says:

      12:33pm | 11/02/11

      Hmmm well my boyfriend eat sushi pretty often. he loves it & he’s also in a pretty blokey profession - If it tastes good, eat it I say..

      I reckon the people who think sushi is a ‘chicks food’ are probably the same people who say garlic & pasta are ‘wog foods’ & anything except beer is a ‘poofs drink’ whilst spitting crumbs of some kind of meat filled pastry everywhere &

      Reply

    • N. says:

      12:40pm | 11/02/11

      Has anyone stopped to consider sushi isn’t just part of a fad diet but actually a cultural dish that a whole country of MEN and women eat?

      It’s almost as bad as saying “Real ladies don’t eat meat pies!”

      Reply

    • Markus says:

      01:02pm | 11/02/11

      We punchers have done our utmost to ensure people differentiate real sushi, which is a staple in Japanese food, and the 8-to-a-box plastic rubbish that is primarily the diet of inner-city women. And wankers.

    • Robert Smissen, rural SA, God's own country says:

      12:42pm | 11/02/11

      The question should read “Is sushi food?”

      Reply

    • Grumpy says:

      12:56pm | 11/02/11

      all seafood is girls food.

      Reply

    • Stephy says:

      02:02pm | 11/02/11

      See above, Grumpy. Elphaba’s post about yucky fish. There’s about 4 or 5 girls who think seafood just isn’t right.

    • MarK says:

      01:05pm | 11/02/11

      I am now deeply worried by Ant.

      First he eats Sushi.

      I mean WTF you girls blouse ponce. Sushi?

      Then he admits to liking Laksa. Laksa? GTFO with your la-di-da culinary preferences. Have a freakin sandwich ffs.

      And finally….oh finally when you actually sit down next to what you consider “real men” you tell tell us they lit up some B&H’s.

      OMFG you live in wankerville. No self respecting tradie would smoke that gold pos.

      Winnie Reds or gtfo.

      When your tradies are girls blouses with questionable ciggie preferences you have a serious issue Ant. Time to move.

      Reply

    • hot tub political machine says:

      01:28pm | 11/02/11

      Laksa is hardly la-di-dah. It got me through many times of student poverty, costs about the safe as a (plenty of meat) sandwhich and is twice as big

    • MarK says:

      01:50pm | 11/02/11

      If you are going to eat seafood you put it in a beer batter and deep fry it.

      You then deep fry chips.

      You do not poach it in coconut milk and spices.

      On the look out for real Aussie men who eat fish the way it should be. Battered, deep fired in newspaper with salt. If you want to get pretentious put some vinegar on it ffs.

    • Lou says:

      02:07pm | 11/02/11

      Winnie reds taste like a*se

      Peter Styvesant all the way MarK.

      I guess they’re a girly smoke.

      But then again I’m a girl, so I can get away with it.. might just go chomp on some sushi & drink a corona & smoke a styvo at the same time.

    • Zeta says:

      02:52pm | 11/02/11

      What do you mean, Stuyvesants are for girls? Peter Stuyvesant was a bro, and had a wooden leg. The cigarettes named after him are for discerning gentlemen in countries that refuse to sell Gauloises or Parliaments.

    • MarK says:

      03:57pm | 11/02/11

      Hi Lou,

      Not at all. PS are fine. They come in a cool soft pack (or used to) with that distinctive tag at the top.

      They tasted so sweet and tapping one out of the pack was the awesome sauce.

    • A.K.A. says:

      01:05pm | 11/02/11

      Take a look at:

      http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2008/travel/tetsuyas-japan/

      I have never seen a meat pie look as good as some of the dishes in this slide show (you can use the arrows to the right to just scroll through rather than hearing the narrative).

      The food is like art, it almost looks too good to eat. 

      Real men don’t like art though, they like UFC and wars!

      Reply

    • Stephy says:

      02:09pm | 11/02/11

      Tetsuya’s… I’d kill to go there one day. Nice little article.

    • Kika says:

      01:23pm | 11/02/11

      But Japanese men have and always eat sushi.

      My husband eats sushi - but doesn’t eat the healthy ones. He eats the deep fried fatty types whereas I go for sashimi and fresh vegetable ones.

      Bad sushi is horrible. But if you can get good sushi - YUM! Thanks now I’m craving sushi again. Need a sushi hit right now.

      Reply

    • Lou says:

      03:19pm | 11/02/11

      Deep fried sushi?! Where can I find this culinary delight? Is it as awesome as deep fried mars bars?
      Or are you referring to the tempura prawnish sushi..

    • Crumpy Gunt says:

      01:32pm | 11/02/11

      @ Ant Sarwood, tradies wouldn’t smoke B& f****n H’s. They would pull out the makin’s and roll one. Takes more time. It’s smoko. They don’t eat. And with no filter, it’s more a life threatening habit, one on many of which blokes, (and probably ‘males’ and ‘dudes’), engage in. These jokers wouldn’t take notice of you, even if you ate Mum’s lunchbox cucumber sandwiches, crusts off, an apple, small popper, and standing on your head, (impossible), and whistled dixie. Don’t feel embarrassed. Forget those judgemental nasty women, if any. You don’t have to prove anything. On the other hand,  Japenese men eat Fugu,  a chance to enjoy the life threatening art of eating Blowfish. Your next trip to Japan. Makes Sushi girl food. You will come back and tell us Ant?

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      01:58pm | 11/02/11

      Food No Man Should Eat - An incomplete list.

      1. Petit Fours - No self respecting man should eat desert. Desert is for depressed teenage girls. A man might involve cream or small berries during intimate role play, but no self respecting man ever orders desert. Ever. But that’s a given. You’re out to dinner with a lady friend and she orders desert, you order yourself a nice, desert priced sipping liquor and a cup of coffee. While she’s shovelling fermented cow curd into her mouth, you take the opportunity to enjoy a blissful break from girlish nattering. Now, if like me you’re a man of distinction, you order your coffee and the waiter is going to show up with petit fours. Do. Not. Eat. Them. For starters, anything that has ‘small’ in the title is not for a man. Saying ‘I just want something small’? You might as well be saying ‘I do not have a penis, also, my little ponies’. The reason there are four of them is so a couple can split them two ways. If you don’t eat them, she’s going to want to, and the internal crisis she will undergo gives you the perfect distractive opportunity to seal the deal.

      2. Trail Mix - Trail Mix is basically a bag full of beige pants that zip off into shorts, in other words, the most unmanly thing in the universe. For starters, hiking is not manly. Hiking is like jogging, only in stupid shoes. No man should ever buy shoes that he only wears for one thing, that’s as bad as a woman buying a pair of shoes she will only wear once. If a real man is going into the wilderness, it’s for a reason. Like to kill a bear. Or to think. Or to find and destroy fissible material on a downed satelite. If you’re in the wilderness for some fickle purpose like ‘enjoying nature’ you’re not a man. A man is prepared for everything, and Trail Mix prepares you for nothing. If you’re hiking along and you have time to ‘snack’ then you’re not really hiking, your walking around, you might as well be in a shopping mall. There is nothing more manly than eating nuts. A man eats nuts because they increase the enjoyment he gets from alcohol. Contaminating them with dried fruit is heinous and womanly. A real man might bring a bag of Nobbies with him in case he finds some beer, but otherwise, the only food a man brings with him in the forest are military grade MREs and possibly baked beans.

      3. The Chicken on the Menu: So you’re at that restaurant again. The one where you won’t be eating petit fours. With the girl who just won’t shut up. The menu arrives. There is fish, there is steak, there is some kind of asian fusion signature dish made by some wanker, there might even be some rissoto or something with field mushrooms for the vegetarians. Then there is the chicken. Never. Order. The. Chicken. Chicken is basically tofu, and you wouldn’t order tofu, would you? Chicken doesn’t taste like anything and practically made in a factory. Chicken is packed with girl hormones that give you breasts and womanly hips, but this is specifically about restaurants. Restaurant chicken is a test. It’s like the way serious Chinese restaurants always Sweet & Sour Pork on the menu to test whitey. There is nothing interesting you can do with chicken, except for schnitzel, but even that you should only enjoy in a pub in the company of men. Ordering the chicken tells the woman in front of you, ‘I’m boring. I write the days of the week on my socks and have sex in the missionary position after three dates after fastidiously cleaning my house’. Do it. Order that risotto. Chew you on some field mushrooms brother and say with your stomach - ‘I don’t give a f***! I didn’t even look at the menu, I’m gonna bang the waitress in the bathroom if you don’t hurry up and inevitably order an entree as your main!’ Chicken. It’s not for men.

      Reply

    • iansand says:

      02:51pm | 11/02/11

      You are right.  Only fools order desert.  Apart from anything else, all that sand plays havoc with your tooth enamel.  And camels taste horrible.

    • Anthony Sharwood

      Anthony Sharwood says:

      03:04pm | 11/02/11

      Great post as usual Zeta.

      And interestingly, it was the second shout out for schnitzels on this sushi thread! Funny thing is, I’m off work today and MAKING CHICKEN SCHNITZELS!!!! Just did 16 of teh little fried suckers at 3pm cos I can.

      And now for the video my brother and I once made on schnitzel making. Excuse the extremely poor quality, poor dialogue, poor everything really. Nothing poor about the schnitzels but!

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbU-xZCURB4

    • TimB says:

      08:27pm | 11/02/11

      Aww damn. I love chicken though.

      But preferably fried in some way. Or with chilli. I love chilli. My own schnitzel recipie calls for copious amounts of tabasco sauce in the egg mixture.

      Does that make it ok? smile

    • stephen says:

      12:36am | 12/02/11

      You sound like a woman, so you can have the prawns.

    • GregS says:

      02:01pm | 11/02/11

      Sushi isn’t girlie food- it’s Japanese food. Japan is a country where men are still men and eat whatever the f* they want without having an identity crisis. Ant you are girlie because you sit there wondering what burly tradies think of you.

      Reply

    • Poo Pirate says:

      02:08pm | 11/02/11

      Why would anyone in his right mind prefer sushi over fudge?

      Reply

    • Ben81 says:

      02:22pm | 11/02/11

      The only thing I hate about sushi rolls is having to fiddle around trying to pick out the little slices of cucumber, I can’t stand that crap.

      Reply

    • Bec says:

      03:55pm | 11/02/11

      My boyfriend and all his (male) mates actually got me into sushi, they used to go there before a night of drinking and gigging (for some reason).

      Reply

    • Mayday says:

      04:38pm | 11/02/11

      I wonder what the poor people who work in these joints for as little as $9 an hour think about sushi?

      Reply

    • Ben81 says:

      06:54pm | 11/02/11

      Everything they look at reminds them of sushi.  They count how many sushi rolls they can make to earn that $9 and how many sushi rolls they could purchase with that $9.  They dream about rolling sushi and and eating sushi and driving home in their sushi cars and sitting in their sushi chairs watching movies about sushi.  They try sometimes to forget about sushi but sushi stays in their heads.

    • Payday says:

      08:34pm | 11/02/11

      And i wonder what the poopr people that work in McDs for as little as $9 an hour think about maccas.

    • Bingle says:

      08:45pm | 11/02/11

      Lucy you didn’t put a word in any where, did you have a long lunch at Sizzlers and let the rest of the staff run your thread?

      We went a funeral today and had a Dim Sim and Chips on the way at a SHELL Truck Stop. How these places can be called Restraunts beats me.

      On Shushi only eat that when made by Elizabeth our G’daughter.

      Reply

    • Elizabeth says:

      08:54pm | 11/02/11

      @ Bingle, gee Pops thanks for the nice words about my rice rolls with prawns and bits in them ... luv yah

      Reply

    • mary monica roche says:

      09:57am | 12/02/11

      Fruit, vegetables,grilled fish, water, and orange juice are female food.

      Junk food, soft drinks, hard drinks, chicken, chips, alcohol, meat pies, hamburgers, meat, and wine are male food .

      Reply

    • ?? says:

      06:05pm | 12/02/11

      i eat (and do) what the hell i like. girly or not. Its my life and i dont give a bullocks what anyone thinks. any confident strong person doesn’t need the acceptance of the plebs around them to try fit in.

      Reply

    • Soames says:

      07:11pm | 13/02/11

      @??....do you mean you don’t give a rats arse what anyone thinks?  Maybe you do, or you wouldn’t mention that unmentionable word, “buttocks”. For shame!  You mentioned it. Try to be the strong confident person, of whom you wish others to aspire to.

    • Chris says:

      09:22pm | 12/02/11

      Looking at the comments in here, we all now know why Australia has an obesity problem

      Reply
 
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