Stop Pretending You Actually Like Uni
It's time we admit sea urchin is just expensive ocean slime
I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: uni is gross. The texture, the taste, all of it. And we need to stop pretending otherwise.
Want to know what uni actually is? "The edible reproductive organs, or gonads, of the sea urchin," according to my friend, Google. Yeah, you read that right, we're paying an extra $30 a dish to eat…. sea creature sex organs.
Let me paint you a picture. About eight years ago, I was in Japan with a group of friends having what was supposed to be the nicest meal of our trip. Multi-course, fine dining, the works. Then out comes a course of uni soup. Not uni on rice. Not a dab on sushi. An entire bowl of sea urchins floating around like an oceanic nightmare.
There were seven of us at that table, and we all looked at each other with the same horrified expression. We knew we had to eat it. We knew we had to smile while doing it. And we all knew we were about to trauma bond over one of the most overrated ingredients in the culinary world.
