Sushi Is Bigger Than Ever in America. There’s One Main Reason.
In 1985, when Molly Ringwald’s character in “The Breakfast Club” pulls out a bento box of sushi at the fictional Shermer High School, the other students are unnerved by this mystifying lunch.
In 2025, when lunch period starts at the real Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, a Chicago suburb similar to the movie’s setting, students race to line up at the sushi bar in the school cafeteria.
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