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Salmon is not loved in Japan. It’s mostly American sushi restaurants due to more fatty taste and familiarity. It is also largely due to Moonies and the fact that salmon was easy to source in the US.

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As someone who lives in Japan happy to say that you’re wrong and sushi places both cheap and expensive serve salmon all the time, and Japanese people order them all the time.

As a Japanese, I can say it was not loved. It’s there now and perhaps it’s enjoyed.

Some people love it, some don't. It is loved, just not universally.

Aside, but like most other foods old or new it will have its fair share of TV airtime with celebrities making loud faces about how delicious it is ;)

Or what distinction do you make between "it is enjoyed" and "it is loved"?

And if you go to 回転寿司 it's always topped with something else because nobody wants plain salmon.

As someone who lives in Japan, it may well be available but it is not LOVED by Japanese people. I'm always amazed how many of my Japanese friends don't eat Salmon sushi.

I'm genuinely curious, what do the Moonies have to do with the history of salmon sushi? I presume you're talking about this group that was founded in Korea, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church

Moonies dominated sushi supply operation in the US for a very long time.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sush...

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