56. Give sushi another try.

Status: Yuck

I wish I liked sushi.....I really do, and I like to think I'm fairly open-minded when it comes to food (despite my meat-and-potato upbringing, which turned me completely off meat and, honestly, potatoes, by the time I was 12). I can't think of any cultural cuisine that I could completely write off, and even Japanese food has elements that I can.....tolerate. But sushi is just foul.

I've given it the old college try before, resulting in absolute disdain. But it just looks so cool to eat.....so trendy, so hip! I desperately want to be a part of this, not stuck in a stuffy spaghetti and meatballs routine like my parents! So I decided to give sushi another chance, and when I was invited out to a sushi restaurant a few days ago, I accepted......with only a bit of nervous hesitation.

I love the atmosphere, the dim lighting, taking off your shoes, sitting cross-legged in the booth......if only the food wasn't so vile. The problem isn't the rice....or the cucumber....it's the damn seaweed that's wrapped around it! Even before I was a vegetarian, I refused to eat absolutely anything that came out of water....so if it wasn't wrapped in weeds ripped from the sea....I think I could actually enjoy it. Why can't they wrap it in fruit roll-ups? Needless to say, I ended up peeling the seaweed off every roll and eating a mess of rice and cucumber.

So there you have it, I tried and failed. It'll be tempura for me from now on.