I'm buying sashimi-grade fish from Japan and they're questioning, Well, we don't know the water, so how do we know it's sashimi grade?' Well, it is sashimi grade, this stuff's eaten raw all over the world and, just because our rules don't fit their rules, they're questioning it I've got a salt chamber for ageing fish but they obviously don't like the idea of ageing stuff.
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