Re: [Dumb Questions] While dining out...

["Gojira" <gojira@pe.net>]

I have tried this sake before and it was pretty decent quality. I'm not sure
of any behind the scenes connection there may be with sumo, but this brand
used to be advertised during bashos shown here in the Los Angeles area by
Steve Sameshima's Dynamic Sports broadcasts of Sumo Digest.

Gojira


----- Original Message -----
From: "John McTague" <tableslam17@yahoo.com>
To: "Sumo List" <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: [Dumb Questions] While dining out...


> At my favorite sushi bar, while getting my yutaka of
> unagi, I ordered the hot sake. On this menu it was
> listed as OZEKI. I had to ask the sushi chef, who is
> Japanese-American, if there was a connection to ozumo.
> He asked me what ozumo was! In fact, there were no
> fans of wrestling there at all! So, feeling like a
> gaijin in my hometown, I finished and left for home.
>
> Has anyone come across this usage of ozeki?
> Is there a yokozuna sake?
> Are we alone in the universe?
>
> Inquisitively,
> Unagiyutaka
>
>
>
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