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The story
A post claiming a dead cricket was found in soup ordered at Kura Sushi has gone viral on Threads. The poster says they drank about half of it before noticing, and the operating company says it is aware of the incident and has already reported it to the local health department. On 5ch, reactions came from all angles: some users scrutinized the photo trying to determine whether it was really a cricket or a cockroach, others tied it to the years-long debate over eating crickets as food, and still others called for stricter hygiene management at restaurants.
9/16 (Wed) 18:46 JST
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A post claiming a “dead cricket was found” in soup ordered at the rotating sushi chain “Kura Sushi” is spreading on social media.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
As for the "poison taster," who does it, how often, eating what, and how much of it?
(∪^ω^) 🔔♪ Ding-dong, ding-dong ♪ (a recurring 5ch copypasta meme marking reply numbers)
Pasco will back you up! (Pasco, the bakery brand that got backlash for its cricket-powder bread)
and now this on top of it?
one wouldn't just wander in and die like that
It'd die if you boiled it, though.
Nah, that's a cricket
Cockroaches are flatter
I see them every day, so trust me on this
No physical evidence left, but my stomach remembers
if they had to eat it themselves, they'd take hygiene a bit more seriously
I drank about half of it before I noticed.
That's a "G," isn't it?! (slang for cockroach)
We don't even know if it's a standalone street shop or one inside a building
I used to hear bell crickets (suzumushi)
chirping a lot in autumn — at some point
I stopped hearing them entirely
That's just what happens as you get older
I still remember which company used to sell cricket powder,
and I'll never buy from them again,
even though they're a fairly well-known company
Compared to that, this is basically a non-issue
to this day I can't set foot in Sukiya, let alone that type of restaurant at all.
Talk about a Deep Impact (a pun on "deep impact" and the racehorse Deep Impact)
no matter how you slice it, they're just a skinny G
I feel like it's the other way around — a cricket that's gotten skinny and flat is what looks like a G
Is there anyone out there who could actually bite through a horsehair worm?
You put it in yourself?
Background and Talking Points
Foreign-object contamination at rotating-sushi chains has become a familiar pattern: a single social media post goes viral and the company is immediately pressed to respond. This time, too, attention centered on the poster’s own photo and whether it had been reported to the health department. On the thread, many users tried to determine from the photo alone whether the insect was a cricket or a cockroach, but heat and prolonged soaking in liquid can easily distort an insect’s shape, making a definitive call from an image alone difficult. The debate over eating crickets as food has also been divisive for several years now, and that context appears to have amplified reactions to this incident. It’s worth noting, since it’s easily misunderstood, that reporting an incident to the health department is simply the standard procedure when a foreign object is found in food — it does not mean any administrative penalty has been imposed at this stage.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “[🦗] “Drank Half Without Noticing” — Cricket Found in Kura Sushi Soup? Threads Post Goes Viral, Company “Aware,” Reports to Health Department”.
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