&gt; I find your comment overly dismissive...<p>That&#x27;s a fair point. I think inserting painting here is slightly off base, but I&#x27;ll take it.<p>What I have an issue with is that people make this seem like magic and that the sushi trade&#x2F;business&#x2F;culinary art has such amazing properties that we should just throw up our hands and say &quot;Well, it&#x27;s magic and it couldn&#x27;t possibly be that anything they do is up for debate&quot;.<p>In the end, it&#x27;s food. I think we should say &quot;fuck that&quot; to being beaten over some sushi as much as we should say &quot;fuck that&quot; to insane working hours and poor working conditions for chefs in other cuisine. It seems to me that some people suggest that sushi just wouldn&#x27;t stay the same without the exact culture the masters have built around it. I think that&#x27;s completely wrong.<p>To give this more perspective, I don&#x27;t think we would accept people being beaten for making mistakes while painting, and the idea of not being able to practice painting because you&#x27;re not allowed to do more than clean brushes for three years seems fairly ridiculous to me. I think there&#x27;s a place for challenging that culture and saying there should be a better way.<p>&gt; That being said, I&#x27;m not a fan of sushi either and I find most of the fuss people make about it quite superficial (much like people make a fuss about yoga). Yet I&#x27;d still assume that it a form of art is at its core and that lot of masters do practice it as an art.<p>I&#x27;m actually a very recent fan of sushi. I like it because it&#x27;s like a foody snack and I can have some sushi next to me while I&#x27;m coding and just eat as I go. I&#x27;m sure the restaurants I go to are crap to real sushi-lovers, though. Especially since I&#x27;m fairly certain no one is getting beat in the kitchen, or having to wash rice for three years.