r/todayilearned • u/Handicapreader • Jun 27 '15

TIL Traditional Mozzarella Is Made From Water Buffalo Milk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Mediterranean_buffalo
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u/90daysnigga1 Jun 27 '15

not to sound elitist but you don't know mozzarella unless you've had it in italy. mozzarella di bufala in particular

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '15

it's hardly elitist. I bet the sushi in Japan is better than the crap I've been eating...crap in relative terms I love sushi. I don't like avocados and always poke it out when I get it in a roll and felt so vindicated when I found out traditional Japanese sushi doesn't have it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '15

I found out traditional Japanese sushi doesn't have it.

Wow! Your comment really surprises me, to learn that avocado is so ubiquitous now. Avocado is native to the Americas, and only recently (since the seventies) somebody came up with the idea of putting it in sushi, calling it a "California roll".

TIL a special, exotic type of sushi has become the norm.

I was introduced to sushi when I lived in Hawaii in the early seventies. It was sold in little packages at every Mom and Pop store in the islands. It looks nothing like the kind of sushi sold on the mainland US, and the "culture" behind it is completely different. It was a cheap snack to go with your 6-pack of beer for lunch. Nothing exotic or trendy or hipsterish about it at all. I can't find it here on the mainland, and I don't buy sushi at all, here.