"Questions" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:29:18 -0400, Dan Logcher
> > wrote:
>
> >barry wrote:
> >> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:53:14 -0400, Dan Logcher
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>barry wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:04:17 -0400, Dan Logcher
> > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>didn't 10 years ago, which was when the event took place.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>10 years?! if you haven't built up any goodwill at all with any chef
> >>>>since then, by all means, eat at a a table.
> >>>
> >>>Of course I have, but I am not willing to bring uninitiated people
> >>>to sushi again. You seem focused on the chef. It has nothing to do
> >>>with the chef.
> >>
> >>
> >> ok, why would you be embarrassed?
> >
> >If the person did anything like the story we heard here, or if the person
> >started to act like they were getting sick which was the case for my
friend.
>
> I'm the person who posted the dreadful experience with a sushi newbie
> most recently.
>
> This guy was so displeased with the taste of nori that he actually
> spit a partially chewed piece of sushi into his hand and then dumped
> it onto his serving plate. He loudly referred to the sushi as eating
> fishing bait and behaved in a manner that I'd never seen him do before
> in the almost 20 years I've known him. His reaction was totally
> unpredictable and extremely embarrassing to both me and the server who
> was close enough to hear. I could tell by the look on her face that
> she was also shocked by his behavior. Thank God I had us placed at a
> table just in case.
>
> On my next visit, the chef was so nice that he came around to me and
> thanked me for returning. He speaks very little English, but when he
> asked if "Friend Ok?", I knew that he had seen the disgusting manner
> in which my friend had acted on the previous visit. I told him my
> friend was Ok and I was sorry that my friend was not feeling well when
> he was here. The chef understood of course, but I will NEVER take
> another newbie to eat sushi again.
>
> This friend is my long time neighbor and friend, so I waited until a
> week passed before speaking to him about the experience. It turns out
> that he is a very picky eater, (I'd noticed this at his home), and
> really does only like a few types of food. I asked him why in the
> world he would want to go to try sushi when he knew it was not on his
> short list of foods that he liked, and he told me that over the years,
> many people had told him he would like sushi and he wanted to try it
> and see.
>

I don't understand why he hadn't just picked up some "supermarket" sushi
as a starter and tried it at home to see if it was something he could live
with
much earlier "over the years".
M