Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 26, 2012

So poor she didn’t have two sticks to rub together?

Well, perhaps sashimi; a bit of horseradish for wasabi to light it off on the tongue, instead of over the fire…

Yup, innards and all.

Excellent idea! Though I do wonder how he “hooked” the fish. Perhaps using that razor sharp rock he honed earlier that morning, the fish will be delicately sliced and partially cooked by the acid in the lemon garnish.

Either way, it’s still cold fish.There’s a better idea on “The Lost Bear”.

This one AGAIN? I’ve seen this gag about four times now.

sushi gettin’ squishyfashionably fishyhumblin’ embellishywishin’ for dishy

Can’t wait till the Hempheads come over…(pretty sure Wiley spelled it wrong…) That’s when things will get baked…..

better you call it sashimi….

What surprises me, is that she isn’t blaming the guy for not getting the fire started.

Isn’t that how wallpaper paste came about?

I prefer sashimi, I don’t need the rice and I forego wasabi and soy. They get in the way of the flavor of the fresh natural flavor of the fish. I’m starting to get hungry and it’s tough to fins sashimi on a Saturday at 7:15 AM.

Somebody’s been eating out of the minnow bucket again!

@dabugger: " grandma’s lye soap"That makes it into lutefisk, not sushi.

Actually, it follows beautifully.

“‘You remember grandma’s lye soap,Good for everything in the home.’”Brings back memories – I did watch my mom (born in 1904) make lye soap in a big oval dutch oven in our little kitchen in Pittsburgh, early 1940’s. She’d save bacon grease, add store-bought lye, cook it, and vye-OLA! (as the Sweet Potato Queen would say), out would come a product that wouldn’t sink, suds, or foam, and smelled a bit like Fels Naptha. For the lyrics to a song that are closest to what I recall, seehttp://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/favorites/redeemlyesoapmid.htm

For a rendition of the song about Grandma’s lye soap, seehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjvTOidpNmI (It kind of runs on, but has its charms.)

Wrong. Wong Wrong. Sushi is not raw fish. It is a kind of rice. You can put lots of things in a sushi roll. Some like raw fish but I do not. But I like lots of other sruff in sushi rice.

Sushi is why they came up with the term “Bait and Switch”.

It all smells a bait fishy to me

The expression, or lack of, on the kids face is classic. Wiley really had a way of putting feeling into his work.

good one

Does sushi give you baited breath?

“. . . Lutefisk.”

++++

And for those who are allergic, or simply opposed to lutefisk, there’s always pickled herring.

But you’d better get it in the brine quick!

How about Frank Zappa and the Mother’s of Invention. I’ll never forget “Sushi Creamcheese.”

linguist: I think you are confusing it with poi, which really can serve as paste without the lingering smell.

why do people think that sushi is raw fish? it partially isn’t. the raw fish is called sashimi. the cooked vinegared rice with variety of ingredients. so, one can put a cooked scrambled egg on top of rice and call it sushi. in addition, due to pollution, mercury poisoning is a risk in large fish like tuna. parasites are a risk in river fish like mackerel.

Hey, I love Non Sequitur and Wiley’s sense of humour and even his politics, but I think he missed the mark on this one. Not only is it probably an old joke but it insults an entire nation and its culinary traditions. By extention, national foods arose out of incompetance or laziness. I hope the comment is not dismissed as PC in action. For those commenters who clearly diss sushi or sashimi, I suggest you go to a GOOD sushi restaurant and try it. It is DELICIOUS.

My wife, who is part Hawaiian, from Hawaii, where the local people eat a lot of raw fish, brought to my attention for this correction for your May 26 cartoon for the definition for the Japanese Delicacy for raw fish. Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice (shari) combined with other ingredients (neta).Sashimi Thin slices or pieces of raw fish which can be salmon, yellowfin, etc., eaten alone or in sushi (formed sticky rice, wrapped in seaweed)

I hope she invented some wasabi to go along with it.

Wow, so much discussion on the proper meaning of “sushi” and yet no one brings up the idea that sushi’s getting a bit too commonplace and a better title might have been “The Origin of Carpaccio.”