I'm a big Seattle Snob

Inside Edition is doing an expose on sushi restaurants; how fish is often kept in the "temperature danger zone" (above 41 degrees) and how they've found e coli on samples. They tested ten restaurants in LA and DC.

Here is the snobby Seattle response.

First of all, how does fresh fish get from the Pacific Ocean all the way to Washington DC? Answer: it doesn't. Therefore, I don't give a rip about sushi in DC.

Moving on to LA--the report showed beautiful pieces of sushi from obviously high end restaurants, sending pieces to the lab, and hitting them with a laser thermometer. THEN they cut to the gross violations, the crappy sushi dive in the crappy strip mall. Here's a hint: don't go to the crappy dive.

Here's another hint, and white people, this will be hard for you to hear, but try to understand: go to a sushi restaurant that has JAPANESE PEOPLE in it. Seriously, you have to get over your fears.

Ok, final point of Seattle snobbery. The question on Inside Edition is "How do you know if your sushi is safe?" I don't know, children, how do you know if your hamburger is safe? Do people die of sushi contamination? Not that I know. Do people die of hamburger contamination? Ten years ago, kids and old people died when they ate e coli contaminated hamburgers from Jack In The Box on 50th and the Ave in the UDistrict.

So what is this about then, Inside Edition? It's about playing off the fears that white Americans have of asians and asian Americans. Come on, yes it is. Don't you see it? Is there an expose on "How Safe Is Your Salad?" How about, "What The Hell Is In Your Milk?"

Seriously, our white friends and neighbors drink hella milk. You figure it out.