Do Japanese people ever get sick of rice and fish?

Question:

I hate to ask such a stereotypical and ignorant question, but I've been wondering if for a while. I have trouble eating rice and sushi for more than a day or two in a row. I just get sick of it. I've heard that it's typical in Japan to eat rice with most meals (including breakfast), along with fish. Do people in Japan just really love rice and fish, or do they get sick of it sometimes?

Answer:

Some people do. Why would you only eat rice and fish though? In Japan, people have much more varied diets than in the West.

There are some people that eat rice with every meal. Just like there are people who eat bread with every meal.

Note that in Japan, also many more varieties of fish are eaten. In most Western countries, people eat, what? Maybe 10 different kinds of fish in their lives, tops: Salmon, trout, tuna, haddock, cod, herring, ...

Basically anything living in the ocean is eaten in Japan, and there's much more than 10 different kinds of fish.

If you spend some time in Japan though, unless you're with some unusual people, you'll see that people eat a huge variety of food from all over the world, and not only that, but within traditional Japanese cooking, there are many different dishes.

I'd say that an 8 year old Japanese kid has eaten a wider variety of food than most adult Westerners have.