ProbableNamed from the place
California roll
noun · first attested 1970s
A roll named for California may well have been invented in Canada.
An inside-out sushi roll filled with crab or imitation crab, avocado, and cucumber.
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- 1970s
- Part of speech
- noun
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California roll
Chefs in the Little Tokyo district of Los Angeles and Hidekazu Tojo in Vancouver have both been credited, and the rice-outside construction was reportedly meant to hide the seaweed from wary diners. The roll later traveled to Japan as an American curiosity rather than the other way around.
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