During the Edo period, eel vendors, in their early period, cut open and cleaned raw eels in front of customers and sold them, and later, some of them began to sell broiled eels or cook eels in front of customers and sold them.
---江戸時代当初は生をその場で捌いて客に渡したが、その後蒲焼にした物を売ったり、その場で調理するものもあらわれた。