TikTok video reveals we’ve been eating sushi all wrong

A young woman has shared a little-known use for a common sushi accompaniment, but not everyone is impressed with her methods.

What is the long nozzle on those fish-shaped soy sauce packets for?

While it is probably not a question you’ve ever asked, some helpful person has decided to answer it for us anyway.

The only problem is, the handy sushi-related titbit – which has gone viral after being shared on TikTok – hasn’t impressed everyone.

In the clip, which could be either mind-blowing or completely wrong depending which side you take, user @shazzaaa18 says: “Do you want to know why soy sauce has the extended part?”

She then holds up the instantly recognisable plastic fish and points to its long nose.

RELATED: Two-minute noodle fact stuns MasterChef fans

Apparently we’ve been eating sushi ‘wrong’ and didn’t even realise. Picture: TikTok/Shazzaaa18

Shazza, who appears to be Australian judging from her accent and hashtag #aussieegirrll, then picks up a sushi roll to show off her trick.

Taking the soy sauce, she then shoves the long tip into the roll and squeezes, giving the food inside a direct coating of the condiment.

“It’s so that you can put it in and squeeze it into the sushi,” she finishes.

The clip, which was captioned, “you learn a new thing every day,” has amassed a huge response with some saying their lives have been changed forever.

“I’m 37 and have poured it from the top this whole goddamn time. Not anymore,” one person wrote.

“How am I just learning about this now,” another user said.

“I’ve been using the soy sauce wrong most my life. Thank you,” said someone else.

The TikTok user skewered the soy sauce fish directly into the sushi roll, horrifying and delighting viewers in equal measure. Picture: TikTok/Shazzaaa18

Others were so dumbfounded by the revelation, they simply wrote “holy heck”, “mind blown” and “makes perfect sense”.

Some declared their “whole life had been a lie” as other commenters said the trick would stop them from “spilling sauce everywhere”.

But there were many sushi-lovers who were horrified.

“No no no, that’s not how you eat sushi,” one viewer wrote.

“I dunno if that’s the real reason,” another added.

Others told the woman the long nozzle was purely so there was a place for the lid to screw on.

Someone else said: “Not true, those packets were around before sushi was a thing.”

This prompted Shazza to reply, instructing her critics to “do a little googling” to find out that they are incorrect.

A few years back, another hack for the fish-shaped bottles went viral, stating the flat tails were created to spread wasabi on your sushi.

The nugget of helpful information was shared by KIIS FM radio hosts Will and Woody, who shared it on their Facebook page where they were declared “rookies” for not realising it earlier.

Continue the conversation @RebekahScanlan | [e-mail]