Rice balls liked by almost all Japanese
A recently reported-on survey by DIMSDRIVE Research looked at a food that has been all too common in the disaster-struck areas, the humble onigiri, or rice ball, a food that is just what it says, with the usual configuration being a ball (or more usually a triangle) of rice with some ingredient in the centre and wrapped in nori, a sheet of dried seaweed.
Demographics
Between the 4th and 18th of November 2010 12,195 members of the DIMSDRIVE Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.9% of the sample were male, 0.7% in their teens, 8.0% in their twenties, 26.0% in their thirties, 32.9% in their forties, 19.9% in their fifties, and 12.5% aged sixty or older. Furthermore, 65.0% were married, 14.5% lived by themselves, 25.9% with one other, 25.2% with two others, 22.4% with three others, and 12.0% with four or more others.
I’m no fan, as the idea of cold rice does not appeal to me in the slightest, and I cannot handle the texture of nori.
Here’s a random picture from nadja.robot on flickr of rice balls:
And Lady Gaga looks like a rice ball.
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