However, the lack of the meat dish made the Americans have prejudice toward Japan as the country inhabited by uncivilized people; also in general, it seems that there were many raw food dishes and that there were great many dishes with light seasoning and that the volume for each dish was not enough for the Americans; according to Perry, "Japan should have something better and that Japanese people should have hidden that which something better."
しかし、肉料理が出ないのは未開だから、という偏見や、総じて生ものや薄味の料理が多かったのと、一品当たりの量がアメリカ人にとっては少なかったようで、ペリーは「日本はもっといいものを隠しているはずだ」と述懐している。