Record sushi roll

This isn't about food in Japan, but about Japanese food in the U.S.

http://www.kcbs.com/Berkeley-Students-Break-Sushi-World-Record/5631549

California Roll seemed strange to me when I first heard of it, and very strange to my Japanese acquaintances when I told them about it years ago. Now, however, as you probably know, the family-oriented kaitenzushi (conveyor belt sushi) restaurants have all sorts of modern variations on the theme: weiner, roast pork, grilled beef, salmon with mayonnaise, and others.

At one time, right after World War II, toro and especially otoro (fatty tuna belly meat and super-fatty tuna belly meat, from the bottom of the belly) were considered weird, foreign-influenced innovations. That part of the tunaconsidered too fatty for humans. It used to be fed to the family dog or cat.