This could be the best thing I’ve ever seen in my life. As I’m yet to see Keira Knightley or Jessica Alba performing sexual acts on me yet, this might just be the next best thing. It’s a sushi sandwich.
Let me say that again just in case you missed it. Sushi. Sandwich. Sushi sandwich. Sandwich made from sushi. Sushi-based sandwich.
Don’t ask me why, but I had the epiphanic mental brainwave to type sushi sandwich into Google to see if such a thing existed, and like just about anything weird, wonderful or brain-meltingly spun out you can possibly imagine, I found that yes, such a thing did exist. I know I’m screwed up for even thinking about typing such an erroneously mismatched combination into a seach engine, but in this case it did yield interesting and rather amusing results.
I found several examples of what people were daring to call a sushi sandwich, with variations ranging from using bread instead of rice, but none of them were actually what looked or acted like a real sandwich. But then I found the example created by a German lady called Marion, posted on her website called Marion’s Kochbuch.
Now the website is in German and I’m shame to say that despite my Austrian-Australian heritage I’m not fluent in the language, however a quick visit to Altavista’s Babel Fish (mmm…fish) translation page garnered me the recipe details I was after.
It’s the real deal, my friends. Raw Laschfilet (salmon), with cucumber, wasabi mayonnaise, radish, all between two slices of toasted bread ardorned with seaweed nori sheets, served with pickled ginger on the side. This is the food of royalty. It’s a humble amalgamation of things both Japanese and English, created by a German. If that’s not a symbol of peace for all the world to look on at with awe, I simply don’t know what is.
If you want to check out the sushi sandwich in all its glory, you can click here to check it out. After this, I’ll bet poor Marion will have no idea why she received such an enormous boost in traffic so if you can help it, try not to crash her server.
It’s a sushi sandwich. Praise be to all that is holy.
- Leon.
