Submitted by TranquillizeMe t3_yke8c9 in todayilearned
alzee76 t1_iusyx9z wrote
Reply to comment by Scoobydoomed in TIL Fish is not the main component of sushi, it's rice by TranquillizeMe
Sure. As the OP discovered, the rice is the important part of "sushi" and everything that uses it is called sushi as far as I know. You just stick a different word on the front to describe the kind of sushi it is, then in informal speech or over time, the suffix gets dropped.
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