I went looking after a Madam & Eve weekend cartoon depicted a selfie of someone holding sushi in chopsticks in his right hand and a picture of a young woman with sushi rolls in the background. I quick web search turned up an article on the British Telegraph date stamped 6:34PM GMT 31 Jan 2011 (www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8293895/South-Africas-ANC-deplores-sushi-on-models-after-scandal.html):
A quote without comment is the best:
The statement has a whiff of Stalinist denunciation of ________________ (fill in the blank). One ideologue would denounce another for not recognizing the insidious capitalist, counter-revolutionary evil inherent in, say, flossing.A statement on Monday from the African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe is unequivocal: "This act is anti-ANC and antirevolutionary. This act is defamatory, insensitive and undermining of woman's integrity."
If nothing else, this can be the a great political trivia question, e.g., in which country has eating sushi been denounced as counter-revolutionary. (There may be a significant difference between "antirevolutionary" and "counter-revolutionary" but I don't give a rip.)
A time line of the scandal can be found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-groner/south-africas-sushi-scand_b_816724.html.
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