Doyou no Ushi no Hi – Eel Day in Japan
Today, the 27th of July, is the one day of the year where people traditionally eat eel, usually grilled over charcoal, as a “stamina food”, a meal presumed to give one the stamina to last out the hot summer days, and is the topic of this survey from Macromill Research.
Demographics
Over the 5th and 6th of July 2012 500 members of the Macromill monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female, and exactly 20% in their twenties, 20% in their thirties, 20% in their forties, 20% in their fifties, and 20% aged sixty or older.
Note that the traditional way of cooking eel is grilling it on skewers over charcoal, smothering it in sauce, and serving on top of white rice.
Today’s television news squeezed in between the Olympics a few stories on eels, with two of the longer features being on eel-substitute pork at half the price of real grilled eel, and African eels being imported from Madagascar. Here’s NHK’s English version of the second story, which also includes images of cooking and serving it.
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