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How can cyanobacteria which are unicellular be incorporated into a food in at all the same way a plant with multicellular structures can?

Dori has a disambiguation page. Shouldn't Nori have one also? Apollo42 17:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Origin

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It should be noted here that the custom of eating Nori originated in Korea, during the Baekje period, and the custom then spread to Japan. The first records of people eating Nori are found in a Korean historical record, the Samguksagi(Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms), which is a historical record that dates back to the Koryo period and is an accurate record of the Three Kingdoms period. China does not have a custom of eating Nori, and the ingredient is almost never found in all aspects of Chinese cuisine. Thus Chinese Nori products are mostly sold to Japan and Korea.

To restore this, you have to prove:

  1. that Samguk Sagi records that people ate Nori in Baekje (I cannot find the corresponding statement),
  2. that if it exists, it is the first record,
  3. and that the custom spread from Korea to Japan (literary evidence?).

--Nanshu 13:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

There was a interesting episode. Kim Hyung Hee the North Korean terrorist who bombed Korean Air in 80s pretended to be Japanese when she was arrested. So she was given Japanese meals including Nori. She pointed it and said "What is the black paper?"--Hskf4 07:58, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
That sounds made up. Why on earth do you think there's any truth to it? --C S (Talk) 09:01, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
This was added again by User_talk:220.86.72.47 without any evidence. I've reverted that change. Richard W.M. Jones 19:00, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seahorses and Kosher status

I just ran across an odd statement in the entry on kosher food, that nori often contains seahorse, and can be unfit for consumption by orthodox Jews. Seahorses? A bit weird-- is this common knowledge, or does the kosher food entry err? Student Driver 11:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I too would also like to know why toasted nori tastes and smells so similar to fish. Lots of rumours within veg and vegan communities on this. Does anyone have a scientific explanation for this? Eve8 21:33, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't think there is any fish or seahorse in nori, at least in Japanese nori. I can't comment on the similar items from other countries though. In Japan at least, old fashioned nori still made in coastal towns are scraped from the rocks and/or harvested from really shallow water, depending on the type of seaweed. Mass produced nori are made from seaweed harvested from seaweed farms in real shallow waters. Either seahorse or fish would be considered foreign object if they somehow end up amongst the piles of harvested seaweed. I guess instead of tasting like fish, it just tastes like seaweed plus sea salt? 220.208.124.242 18:07, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FLCL and Nori

I'm removing FLCL from the "See Also" section. I understand that it was put there because the fake eyebrows of the character Commander Amarao are made of nori. This fact was in the deleted trivia section of the FLCL page if I recall, and is still in the "List of FLCL characters" page under the section for Commander Amarao. However, unless there is better connection than this trivial fact, I don't think that there is enough cause to have a link to the FLCL page. Zarakinthish 21:43, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nori is Filling

Somebody gave me a little packet of it, and I've been munching, since it's tasty. OMG!!! I haven't had such a huge quantity, but my stomach is going to pop! I wonder if it rehydrates in the stomach and then it takes up a whole lot more space. I guess that would make it potentially dangerous to chow down on a whole bunch of it, huh? Anybody have any information about this?Songflower 00:50, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

It's not red, it's green.this article is gay —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.98.201.149 (talk) 00:50, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Intro

It is normal in encyclopedia articles to refer to very similar items in the introductory paragraph. In fact, nori is defined as laver by Merriam Webster [1]. When referring to the seaweed species, laver/nori/gim are just foreign language terms for the same thing. When referring to the prepared food, laver/nori/gim are very similar, and worthy of a brief mention in the introduction. If it were somewhat related, or more obscure, it is fine to put it in just the "See also" section, but here, I think it should be brought to the reader's attention at the top. I don't know why user Myasuda keeps deleting it. Drop the soap! (talk) 21:20, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

If there is consensus to retain it, I won't object. — Myasuda (talk) 21:24, 24 February 2008 (UTC)