because prepared properly, puffer is one hell-of-a-tasty fish. it has a little *sing* to it on your tongue, which is the poison (minute quanitity if prepared properly and so minute it's nonlethal)
Rock Hydra
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You probably have a higher chance of getting killed in a car accident than from eating the fish...
I was the guest of a business dinner where a dish was presented to me which the translator described as blowfish. Though my actions as guest of honor could affect the business relationship between our companies; I chose not to count on whether the Chef was good at what he did.
I asked the translator to explain that I respectfully decline the dish; that there is other food on his menu that I look forward to eating. The translator later explained that my hosts were relieved that I hadn't accepted the dish because that would have meant that they had to eat it too.
I asked the translator to explain that I respectfully decline the dish; that there is other food on his menu that I look forward to eating. The translator later explained that my hosts were relieved that I hadn't accepted the dish because that would have meant that they had to eat it too.
IAteYourMother
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It's really good fish. But the chef preparing it needs special training. You make the fish blow up first so that the poison sacs expand outside of the body. then you cut it open for the meat. Less crude than that, but something like that. Without training, eating that fish is suicide. But it's really good
em, no; it's not quite the same thing as walking across the street. And someone choosing NOT to eat something they either don't trust or don't understand is not a pussy for making a decision they're comfortable with. There's a known potential of death in eating this delicacy and you're choosing to trust whether or not the person preparing the dish knows what they're doing. Aside from whether the chef knows what they're doing, there's still a chance that your own body might not handle the experience well. People die from less exotic food allergies and it has nothing to do with food prep.
1. Sketcher eats fuguOriginally posted by: tikwanleap
Maybe they were thinking:
1. Sketcher eats fugu
2. Sketcher dies
3. ???
4. Profit!
2. Protocol says we have to eat it now also.
3. Sketcher dies
4. We die
5. ???
6. Profit! (and the guy that ordered the fish wasn't at the banquet)
I think that I have some dried fugu fish snacks in my kitchen that my wife brought back from Taiwan. But I find the spicy hot / sweet cuttlefish much more tasty.
I have tried Fugu at a restaurant in the Ginza district of Tokyo many moons ago and I found it to be sorta bland. It was in some kind of shabu-shabu dish.
I have tried Fugu at a restaurant in the Ginza district of Tokyo many moons ago and I found it to be sorta bland. It was in some kind of shabu-shabu dish.
Man, this is going to effect sales of my "Preparing Puffer fish for dummies" book.
Oh well I have my backup book, "Finding and Cooking Mushrooms for dummies."
Oh well I have my backup book, "Finding and Cooking Mushrooms for dummies."
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ppl do lots of stupid things
drive cars, bungee jump, fly in planes. you know, all those things that kill more ppl every year then a puffer fish. the only reason Fugu is poisonous is if you cut the liver. other then that its fine. i know ppl who have eaten it plenty of times. if i had the chance i'd eat it.
That fish tastes awesome in a soup :thumbsup:
I wonder how many people it took to die before they found
out that the blood of the fish has the poison...
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pufferfish
I wonder how many people it took to die before they found
out that the blood of the fish has the poison...
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pufferfish
Actually (from what I've heard) it is somewhat safe to eat Fugu from a restaurant that has a trained and certified chef in Fugu preparation. The custom is that the chef must eat some of the Fugu first before serving it to the guests.
Doesn't it also say something about your hosts if they were taking you to a restraunt that they didn't trust?
Walk around Shinjuku or Namba and there are tons of restraunts serving fugu every night without suffering any "accidents"
There's something here that you brain trusts just don't seem to get. Just because you have a comfortability with something that doesn't mean that someone or anyone else has to feel the same way.
And as far as what it say's about the hosts; they simply didn't prefer the dish, I don't really think there was any preoccupation with death. Perhaps something was lost in translation but it was a point of humor of which we both enjoyed and followed up with jokes at each others' expense. They AND the Chef seemed to understand that I preferred not to eat the dish and we all had plenty of other extravagance to gush over.
The only real issue appears to be that quite a few internet culinary conniseurs herein' call for your man-card if you don't sing along. As with the discussion of politics, relationships and sex in internet forums though; the more extravagant talk there is - the less likely any of it is from true experience.
I don't give a rip if "tons of" resturaunts successfuly serve it up. I didn't care to try it. No derision required.
And as far as what it say's about the hosts; they simply didn't prefer the dish, I don't really think there was any preoccupation with death. Perhaps something was lost in translation but it was a point of humor of which we both enjoyed and followed up with jokes at each others' expense. They AND the Chef seemed to understand that I preferred not to eat the dish and we all had plenty of other extravagance to gush over.
The only real issue appears to be that quite a few internet culinary conniseurs herein' call for your man-card if you don't sing along. As with the discussion of politics, relationships and sex in internet forums though; the more extravagant talk there is - the less likely any of it is from true experience.
I don't give a rip if "tons of" resturaunts successfuly serve it up. I didn't care to try it. No derision required.
LOL, that's pretty good
Originally posted by: Xylitol
That fish tastes awesome in a soup :thumbsup:
I wonder how many people it took to die before they found
out that the blood of the fish has the poison...
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pufferfish
Apparently a lot.
There was an episode of Taboo on NG discussing this. After WWII, food became very scarce in Japan. People who picked through garbage bins for food (a lot of people) ended up grilling fugu and eating it without proper preparation. Lots of Japanese died and the end result was MacArthur setting up a system where chefs needed licenses in order to prepare fugu for consumption.
HumblePie
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Already done. Pufferfish bred in captivity are NOT poisonous since their bodies don't produce the poison. It's bacteria from the food they eat in the wild that produces the poison. They don't eat that food and they don't become poisonous. Which you'll find many restuarants that server fugu actually use the captive forms of fugu. Chance of posioning and dying equal ZERO.
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