come on Jamie. just eat the fish. It's really not that bad and in Japan people rarely get sick from sushi. You have a higher chance of getting sick from one of your McDonald's burgers than sushi. Hope you're enjoying the western life.

I'd like to eat some whale.

Where else but Japan can you eat that?

I think Iceland also eats whale, but I'm not sure. I'm sure people in Japan get sick from eating sushi all the time. They just don't want to appear lazy and hide the fact that they are violently ill from friends and coworkers.

I've never seen whale in Japan before. I've heard it's on sale at markets and stuff, but it's not popular to say the least.

What kind of a so called free society do we live in? Why do these people have the right to say what I can and cannot eat in a restaurant?

Sushi is meant to be served raw. If you freeze, and then thaw out fish it is left spongy, and smelly.

Nobody seems to be getting sick from sushi all of a sudden... so why the ban?

As far as I know it's the only such ban across North America...

Sincerely,
A concerned sushi lover

Andrew sounds like a spokesman from the Sushi lobby. Hopefully the Toronto sushi ban will spark a new trend all over the world. Maybe if we're lucky natto will be next.