世論 What Japan Thinks

This Sunday’s sillyness is in two parts, both about food. Second, goo Ranking asked its panel to pick the food they’d like to thank the first human who ate it. I don’t know if that makes sense at first glance, but basically which food that appears disgusting to look at but is actually rather nice once you acquire the taste. Be sure to read the first part on strange but scary foods one might risk eating.

Demographics

Over the 21st and 22nd of March 2008 1,036 people from the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.7% were male, 7.0% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 30.1% in their thirties, 27.0% in their forties, 10.9% in their fifties, and 10.2% aged sixty or over. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Ginkgo nuts are wonderful, but I don’t know why they rate here! Coffee seems a bit tame, but civet coffee is another matter!

Ranking results

Q: For which food would you like to thank the first person who ate it? (Sample size=1,036)

Rank		Score
1	Kusaya, horse mackerel dipped in salt water and dried in the sun	100
2	Natto	96.6
3	Sea cucumber, sea slug	94.6
4	Puffer fish	73.1
5	Blue cheese	72.3
6	Snail	69.9
7	Durian fruit	65.3
8	Swallow’s nest	61.9
9	Nare-zushi, sushi fermented with fish and vegetables	56.3
10	Jellyfish	44.1
11	Sea urchin	26.7
12	Eel	30.3
13	Octopus	26.3
14	Angler fish, monkfish, goosefish, sea toad	26.1
15	Yoghurt	22.4
16	Ginkgo tree nut	21.8
17	Coffee	19.8
18	Mushroom	19.8
19	Konnyaku, konjac, solidified jelly made from the rhizome of devil’s tongue	16.6
20	Kimchi	15.2