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Originally Posted by steven
Case in point? Did you read my earlier post?
As far as putting soy sauce on rice causing cancer goes... I don't think so. If it did I'd imagine cancer to be a much bigger killer in Japan than it presently is seeing as how many meals consist of rice with soy sauce in it (I'm talking about non-white rice...). As MissMisa pointed out, soy sauce is used as an ingredient a lot of the time and it is included in your rice whether you know it or not a lot of the time.
What I would think to be true is this, though: Putting soy sauce on rice (as in covering it till it's all brown) can't be a healthy thing. The amount of sodium in soy sauce makes it a bit of a dangerous ingredient in that respect (in my opinion). That much sodium can't be good for you! But who knows? Doctors and magazine articles always seem to change their minds about those kinds of things.
One of the Japanese in those links that I found pointed out something interesting. While Japanese often find it "offensive" to put soy sauce on rice, if it's for yourself then who really cares. If you serve it to other people it would definately be rude. However, there are people who put mayonaise on rice and don't get as much guff for doing so. If you go into class rooms when kids are eating lunch and there is mayonaise available (for salad dressing), you might see a kid squirting a bunch of mayonaise in their rice. I'm not sure I could take mayonaise over soy sauce on my rice. Either one seems wildly unhealthy and a complete waste on the rice that people grow around here.
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I don't think it causes cancer either, but I was illustrating that people generally do not have a positive view of just putting soy sauce on white rice here, and looking back at the post you made and the link you put up, it seems to support that. I took MMM's comment about "no one putting soy sauce on rice" figuratively. I do not think he meant for it to be taken literally.