[scanlimes]

If you substitute sushi for coffee or microbrews, I think his dismissal will sound much more reasonable. A fluff article deifying a hipster barista or brewer is met with rolled eye, but write about the same concept in a different culture and the mystique seems genuine.

[mazerackham]

Coffee is one specific species of a bean, roasted, and brewed with varying amounts of hot water, milk, chocolate, and maybe a few other ingredients.

There are endless species of fish, with wildly different tastes (salmon, vs tuna, vs tuna belly, vs monkfish liver, vs catfish, don't tell me you can't taste a difference). In addition to fish, there are crustaceans (crab, shrimp, lobster, etc), mollusks (oyster, clam, squid, octopus, cuttlefish), and probably other major animal types I'm omitting.

The comparison is not adequate, sushi is inherently more diverse than coffee.