64. Sushi Fish | The Economics of Everyday Things

How does a fresh tuna get from Japan to Nebraska before it goes bad? And how does its journey show up in the price of your spicy tuna rolls? Zachary Crockett gets schooled.
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[@apstrike]

Love that sushi is an everyday thing.

[@Mainlychesscontent]

I have the runs from eating spoiled fish and it’s really bad

[@13_13k]

Your videos are becoming part of my favorites.
This video was well done. I am in Los Angeles and started eating sushi as a teenager in the late 1970s early '80s and I've lived in Hawai'i and The Bay Area of San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
I became good friends with a Japanese family who own muktiple sushi restaurants in the Bay Area that are very well known.
Sushi is big business.
I also have a client here in Los Angekes who owns a fish distribution conpany that takes daily deliveries of fish caught that same day around Australia and New Zealand as well as Alaska. He has cut out the brokers by buying directly from the boats before they send their catch to the auctions. He has the very best fish and shell fish distributon probably in California. Definetly the best freshest in L.A. He is a very wealthy man.
Growing up a mile from the ocean in Los Angeles my friends and I would go fishing for shark and halibut, and Cod, Bass, and if we drove south closer to San Diego or to S.D. or beyond into Baja is where the tuna and big game fishing begins with the warmer waters.
It always felt stupid to buy fish at the store when we get it for free or not free but fresh caught.
When you can catch a fish and cut it up right there and eat it 10 minutes ago it was swimming wild in the Pacific Ocean is amazing

[@growpapayas]

Sushi is vinegared rice. It can be served with raw fish, other seafood, vegetables or egg, but there is no such thing as ‘sushi fish’ Sashimi is raw fish.

[@GGTanguera]

Sushi in the US is fast food. Farmed salmon, arsenic rice, fake crab meat, GMO eggs, wasabi from green radish powder…Junk food.

[@64standardtrickyness]

Okay so why is sashimi so expensive?

[@trex1448]

It makes no sense to be shipping fish from Japan. The best sushi is always with local fish.

[@celestialcircledance]

I always thought that local Seaside towns in Maine or Rhode Island or Cape Cod where I vacation should have more sushi places. They're surprisingly hard to find despite the great opportunity for local fish.

[@thomasesau2376]

I eat sushi in Oregon. Although there is good sushi in Quincy and Providence, I eat clams, quohogs and lobster in New England. o​@@celestialcircledance

[@thomasesau2376]

Although, I haven't eaten sushi in New England since quarentine so maybe it's changed.e​@@celestialcircledance