YMMV / Oishinbo

• Anvilicious: You'll be hard-pressed to find a chapter (in the official English translation, at least) that doesn't include particular scenes in which Yamaoka or some other characters lamenting the downgrading quality of Japan's culinary scene due to industrialization and such.
• Archive Panic: 111 volumes and still counting (made even worse that the manga is in an indefinite hiatus)! The writer for the manga itself even claimed that at some point the manga has to come to an end, since "30 years is too long for many things" according to a statement made in his blog.
• Catharsis Factor: Any moment that involves humiliating and mocking Kanegami is bound to become a cathartic moment.
• Memetic Mutation: The anime version is popular on Nico Nico Douga for all kinds of remix videos. Kaibara being Tsundere for Shiro is the most common joke (and not really out of line with the manga).
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jean Morel, a French food critic who appeared in an early volume, is drawn to look like Orson Welles, who was a familiar face in Japanese food and drink commercials in the early 1980s.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Although Oishinbo is one of Japan's longest-running manga series with more than 135 million approximate sales (even exceeding other internationally-known series like Bleach and Jojos Bizarre Adventure), its lack of widespread cultural presence in the international scene resulted in most Westerners and non-Japanese animanga fans usually only remembering the manga for its controversial depiction of the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Yamaoka mentions in one story how he would like Japan to resume full-scale commercial whaling, citing that the number of whales is increasing instead of decreasing (Even though this is an example of Blatant Lies, especially at the time). Due to the controversial nature of whaling activities in Japan (and the topic's sheer divisiveness), his concerns seem more about satisfying his tastes when compared to his usual position of emphasizing the quality of natural life in Japan.
  • Related to the previous point, the chapter and episode Battle of the Whales may come off as uncomfortable for those who vouch for the whales' rights (or Westerners in general who prioritize conserving nature over-exploiting them for mere culinary tastes), considering the author's stern stance on defending Japan's whaling activities that are reflected in Yamaoka's intention to justify the whaling activities as a whole. Presumably for this reason, the episode isn't included in the streamed versions because of its politically sensitive topic.
  • Kaibara is so respected as a gourmet that he can excoriate Shiro at a dinner party in front of their host, be a bad winner and sore loser, sneer, scold, and browbeat others, and in general, be a complete jerkwad without anyone batting an eye (although in most cases these happen because they're way too scared to criticize Kaibara in any way). In one particular chapter that ends with Yamaoka losing to Kaibara in a chopstick competition, Yuko even takes Kaibara's side and mocks Shiro's so-called unmannerly chopstick handling: "I'm going to measure your etiquette!" To non-Japanese readers, this comes off as Kurita throwing Shiro under the bus for his failure. Curiously (probably because of the callousness of this particular scene), this scene was omitted in the anime version.