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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 07:25am on 2004-05-23

"The female models wear thongs and are hermetically sealed with plastic wrap for health-code reasons. Flowers cover body parts that could distract from the dining experience." -- Robert L. Jamieson Jr., writing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, about the Bonzai Asian Pub and Bistro, which serves sushi on top of scantily clad women once a week.

(From the Quotation of the Day mailing list, 2003-12-15. Submitted to the list by Chari Anang.)

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posted by [identity profile] bikerwalla.livejournal.com at 05:35am on 2004-05-23
chicks are fresher when you shrink-wrap them!
 
posted by [identity profile] blumindy.livejournal.com at 08:36am on 2004-05-23
Let me guess: they play "Penny Lane" during this meal service?
 
posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 12:31pm on 2004-05-23
Ow, ow, ow, fucking ow. I don't want to eat sushi off someone I'm not in love with, hermetically sealed or not, nor even eat it from a plate in the company of those who would. Gross gross gross gross gross. I'm working on many socio-sensual concepts, but this is icky in more dimensions than I can get into right now. Am I allowed to scream?!
 
posted by [identity profile] thespian.livejournal.com at 12:37pm on 2004-05-23
oddly, the chance is, the girl is more sanitary that the plate....I mean, the plastic wrap will only get used once, and thrown out, instead of washed (hopefully well) for the next person....
 
posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 02:33pm on 2004-05-23
I'm sure anyone who knows me and most of my house will impugn my sanitation to the max. I'm used to germs, until the flu catches me, or a sinus infection invades, or my stomach goes weird. I believe in hand sanitizers and frequent washing when one has been in contact with many public surfaces.

I just find the concept of eating from a supine body a dish of an idea disgusting and disturbing. Absurd. I mean; who is this person I'm eating off from? Why is she doing this? Why can't I get a guy? I'm only semi-het. Or could I? They're a person. Haven't these folks read Dr. Suess?!

A supine body in any context other than romance is at least a good facial, maybe rib and hara, and frontal thigh and tibial massage. Only. I guess my professional instincts are ingrained. context matters, but is tough to reconsider.

I like sushi quite well, but my husband doesn't, is rather conservative in our practices, and I don't think it'd go over. And my sweetheart is a vegetarian who wouldn't tolerate it. And I try to only humiliate people who do things to deserve it by my loose but choosy standards.

I just can't quite imagine myself eating sushi from the torso of a stranger; even sanitized. Maybe another sweetheart sometime will get into such nibblings, but no, it's a personal, intimate, careful thing. I find the concept of it as public, common occurrence kinda abhorrent.
 
posted by [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com at 06:24am on 2004-05-24
A small factual point: there's quite a bit of vegetarian sushi--egg, avocado, pickle (nice crunchy Japanese pickles, not limp cucumber pickles), cucumber (non-pickled), tofu....
 
posted by [identity profile] thespian.livejournal.com at 12:48pm on 2004-05-24
yeah; I can't eat seafood (I like it, it just doesn't like *me*), but I love sushi and eat it when I can.

(and it's cheaper to eat veggie! I can go out with friends for sushi and be literally stuffed, for a third what their seafood costs! ;-) )
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posted by [personal profile] jducoeur at 09:48am on 2004-05-24
"Hermetically sealed in plastic wrap"? I'm sorry, but that's a wee tad too Twin Peaks for me...
 
posted by [identity profile] anniemal.livejournal.com at 01:02pm on 2004-05-24
I'm an omnivore, and have been known to go veggie for three weeks if someone else cooks. Food's food. I'm not picky, mostly. Well, I am, but the content isn't the issue. As someone who sucked aquarium water for 20yrs, I'm not allowed to be picky.

It's all mouth feel now. I wonder what body hair would do for a correctly vegetarian sushi?

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