You’ve Been Eating Sushi Wrong For Your Entire Life

Codes of etiquette are essential to Japanese culture, so it should come as no surprise that eating a sushi meal is rife with expectations and rules. And guess what: You’ve been breaking most of them for years.

Here’s how to eat sushi the right way, you clod.

DON’T ask what’s fresh.

The question implies that they’re serving anything that isn’t fresh. It’s insulting.

DON’T rub your chopsticks together.

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People do this because they think there’ll be splinters in their chopsticks. There won’t be, and the idea there might be implies the restaurant has given you cheap implements. It’s insulting.

DON’T gesture or point with your chopsticks.

Hella rude.

DON’T put wasabi in your soy sauce.

The sushi chef already puts the amount of wasabi he believes is right. It’s OK to add a little more if you like some extra kick, but put it directly on the piece of fish. Don’t make a gross slurry of soy sauce and wasabi in your soy sauce dish.