Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi

cremeglace writes "Americans don't have the guts for sushi. At least that's the implication of a new study, which finds that Japanese people harbor enzymes in their intestinal bacteria that help them digest seaweed, enzymes that North Americans lack. What's more, Japanese may have first acquired these enzymes by eating bacteria that thrive on seaweed in the open ocean."

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Re:Americans

[Yamata no Orochi]

Then you're not really eating sushi, so much as rice and seaweed prepared in a fashion customary to facilitate the presence of sushi fish.

Sounds pretty pointless.