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At the Portland Japanese garden a few years back, there was an event where several prominent sushi chefs came to do a presentation. My wife asked "Why aren't th
by xrd 3y ago
At the Portland Japanese garden a few years back, there was an event where several prominent sushi chefs came to do a presentation. My wife asked "Why aren't there any women on the panel?" They responded that women's hands were hotter than men's and that affected the flesh of the fish, so women weren't great as sushi chefs. The entire audience laughed. A pall quickly settled over the faces of the men on the panel when they realized they had said something really stupid.
I've heard there are some really innovative women sushi chefs these days in Japan, which I'm excited to try to find in a week.
- EA-3167 3y agoI wonder if they just felt upset that they were the subject of laughter, or if they realized having actually said it out loud, that it was easily one of the silliest beliefs out there. What I like about it is that it flies in the face of the history of European dairy-making, and present research about coldness of extremities by gender. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12-women-colder-men-scientists.html https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12-women-colder-men-scie...
- xrd 3y agoThis is fantastic and makes me feel stupid, a little. But, I'm only the messenger, I didn't ask the question, nor answer it!
- tekla 3y ago> A pall quickly settled over the faces of the men on the panel when they realized they had said something really stupid. I doubt that. More likely that they were ashamed that the audience were ignorant of their craft.
- orwin 3y agoNah, women extremities are in fact sightly colder on average than men's, so it is in fact ignorant to say the reverse.
- Hucklederry 3y ago[dead]
- xrd 3y agoIf I recall correctly, only the women?
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoThey would have, but their hands were already too hot.
- resolutebat 3y agoThey were entirely serious about it. Japanese also cannot digest foreign rice because their intestines are longer, or use foreign ski gear because Japanese snow is different.
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoTo anyone who was curious like me, apparently women's core temp can run 0.4 F hotter than men's, but their hands tend to be colder! https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/cold_wars_why_women_feel_the_chill_more https://www.pfizer.com/news/articles/cold_wars_why_women_fee...
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoSorry I'm probably misinterpreting, did they laugh because the temperature is actually colder, or because of the possible joke "women's hands are hotter" as in, more good looking