I hope your filet mignon is wagyu beef Mr O, otherwise you are not treating yourself well at all.

A small local independent supermarket in a town near us occasionally gets whole wagyu rumps. They are very reasonably priced, but are huge, even cut up & individually vacuum sealed one will nearly fill my freezer, but they leave any other beef for dead. The worst of them are about as good as 100 day grain feed Angus.

Do your self a favor, & get some. Surely you realise 120+ million Japanese are unlikely to be wrong.

Can anyone tell me what's the deal with Sushi?

Some people rave about it.
I've never tried it. Unless herrings can be counted
as Sushi? My understanding it that Sushi is raw
fish. Anyone tried it?

Phil,

Thanks for the advice but haven't you noticed that Japanese are all crazy? I think there's something in the wagyu. Stick to good old fashioned eye fillet and stay sane.

Foxy,

Ohayogozaimasu! Sushi wa suki desu ka?

I don't like it; I find it too fishy for me.

Try it - most people rave about it.

Mr O,

I'm sorry you find it too fishy.

I enjoy eating fish so I shall try it.

My daughter-in-law buys hers at her local
Sushi Sushi restaurant in Hawthorn.
She "likes her Sushi from there".

Hi Foxy,

Both the wife and I love Japanese, "T" in fact is very 'Hainamana' (Asian) in her outlook, has a small amount of Hainamana blood. Back in the day, up in the Bay of Islands, all sorts of sailors jumped ship to the Maori women. When we lived in Sydney, "T" would go to China Town to buy things from the Chinese herbalists, strange things at times. We shopped at the Hainamana butchers in Hurstville, only place to find fresh pigs jelly and tero tero (pigs intestine), course fatty pork mince, chicken livers (secret ingredient) add a few other things like onions, stale bread crumbs, herbs, etc and in the oven for a while and you've got black podding. One night a friend put on a multicultural food night as a fund raiser in their backyard. Instead of the usual 'Boil Up' or 'Hangi' (Woolies were fresh out of missionaries that day) "T" did Maori blood sausage. It went down really well, when anyone asked whats in it? Ah...pork mince and a few herbs and spices was the stock answer.

At the butchers there was the language barrier, neither could speak the others lingo, the old lady in Cantonese, "T" in English, I would say, you'll do better speaking Maori to her, then she would, with much gesturing and hand waving, got the message across as to what she wanted, always happy people, but busy!

According to "T" Hainamana liniment oil is the best thing for her joint pain, contains camphor, menthol, turpentine and other oils, plant and root extracts in a white cream. Can't drink it (sorry Donald) but it works better than joint rubs from the chemist.