Okonomiyaki Wars: The Battle Between Hiroshima and Osaka Style

2023-06-01 23:50:19

After the G7 Hiroshima Summit, a new war is regarding to break out. The war over okonomiyaki is. It all started when British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who visited Hiroshima for the summit, tried making okonomiyaki himself as part of his diplomatic activities. When the British embassy introduced this on its official Twitter account, it was flooded with replies that were waiting. Mainly by people in the Kansai area, it’s not okonomiyaki.

If you say “Hiroshima-yaki” in Nagarekawa, can’t you go home alive?

“Hiroshima-yaki” is treated as a taboo

Let’s set aside the question of whether the home of okonomiyaki is Hiroshima or Osaka. It should be noted here that the people of the Kansai school are actively saying, “That’s Hiroshima-yaki.” “Hiroshima-yaki” is an absolutely taboo word. I have visited Hiroshima many times for interviews, and each time, I have been struck by two things by people from Hiroshima. If you’re a Giants fan, never say it out loud. and,Even if you make a mistake, you should not call okonomiyaki “Hiroshima-yaki”. A person from Hiroshima said,If I try to eat these two things around Nagarekawa (an entertainment district in the city), I won’t be able to go home alive.I was told. I’ve never heard of anyone trying it, so I don’t know if it’s true or not.

The “incident” that happened on the NHK program

However, it is a fact that the people of Hiroshima absolutely do not accept the name ‘Hiroshima-yaki’. In 2016, there was an incident that symbolized that. In September of the same year, Hiroshima was featured on NHK General TV’s variety program “Sarameshi.” At the beginning of this program, the telop “Hiroshima-yaki” was inserted into the video of okonomiyaki at the beginning of the introduction of Hiroshima’s specialties. As a result, viewers in Hiroshima who watched this program commented, “There is no such thing as Hiroshima-yaki” and the protests flooded in. In response to this, NHK decided to take measures to correct the telop to “Okonomiyaki” when rebroadcasting. If you search SNS, there are quite a lot of people who refer to Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki and call it “Hiroshima-yaki”. However, all over the country, only Hiroshima people get angry.

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