As an example of the imbalance the long production time of soy sauce is causing, I have had to send away 2 boats in the last 2 days. Typically I send away only about 1 boat out of a hundred. One of the sent away boats had sushi (before I had any soy sauce, and it was for 4 crates) and the other had soy sauce (>24 hours total production time right after I got the machine unwrapped).
Also, at one point this afternoon, I had almost 20 friends with open boat crates. Normally this would make me overjoyed with so many crates to fill, but more than half of them were asking for soy sauce. Most of the rest were asking for the usual sugar and butter. For all of that I managed to give away 1 sushi, that's it. Anticlimactic, to put it mildly.
Like I said, soy sauce is the new syrup.
~powdermonkey