- 31 Mar 2004
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yes, me too and also fugu
yes, you are right, gimme any of these and the others, any size, any colours & shape I'll eat them all. I just love with passion. I'll even take risks and eat fugu which is supposed to be safe seeing the harsh obligations that goes along with it.
Now as far as fugu is concerned, here is a quote from unknown source :
Fugu? What's a fugu, you may be asking. Fugu is the Japanese term for the poisionous blowfish, a peculiar fish native to the Pacific Ocean. Considered a delicacy in Japan and the Philippines, the blowfish (scientific name Diodon holacanthus), an unattractive fish that boasts the ability to inflate its body and project protective spikes, contains signifigant amounts of tetrodotoxin, a powerful toxin that will shut down your CNS faster than an all-day Charmed marathon. The lethal dose of tetradotoxin for a full-grown man would fit on a pinhead. Tetrodotoxin is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide, and one blowfish contains enough poison to kill 30 people. It is said the blowfish inspired Deuteronomy 14:9-10 which states "These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you"
But that might well be over soon :
as per an article edited in a french newspaper (Libﾃｩration of 14th May 2004)
The professor Tamao Noguchi of the Nagasaki University has found a way to "produce" or rather breed and bring up a new race of identical fugu that will not produce the mortal tetrodotoxine. For 3 years the Prof. and his team have "raised" 4'800 fugus in special cages situated 10 meters ABOVE THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
The idea was to check/demonstrate/prove that the fugu does NOT naturally produce himself the poison, but rather "manufacture" the substance with the intoxicated and polluted crabs, seashells and other species that he eats and then transform in poison.
So Prof. Noguchi fed the fugus with non contaminated fishes and seafood.
The results : absolutely no one of the fugus had "produced" the lethal poison.
vive la vie & les sushis !!!
Golgo_13 said:
yes, you are right, gimme any of these and the others, any size, any colours & shape I'll eat them all. I just love with passion. I'll even take risks and eat fugu which is supposed to be safe seeing the harsh obligations that goes along with it.
Now as far as fugu is concerned, here is a quote from unknown source :
Fugu? What's a fugu, you may be asking. Fugu is the Japanese term for the poisionous blowfish, a peculiar fish native to the Pacific Ocean. Considered a delicacy in Japan and the Philippines, the blowfish (scientific name Diodon holacanthus), an unattractive fish that boasts the ability to inflate its body and project protective spikes, contains signifigant amounts of tetrodotoxin, a powerful toxin that will shut down your CNS faster than an all-day Charmed marathon. The lethal dose of tetradotoxin for a full-grown man would fit on a pinhead. Tetrodotoxin is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide, and one blowfish contains enough poison to kill 30 people. It is said the blowfish inspired Deuteronomy 14:9-10 which states "These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you"
But that might well be over soon :
as per an article edited in a french newspaper (Libﾃｩration of 14th May 2004)
The professor Tamao Noguchi of the Nagasaki University has found a way to "produce" or rather breed and bring up a new race of identical fugu that will not produce the mortal tetrodotoxine. For 3 years the Prof. and his team have "raised" 4'800 fugus in special cages situated 10 meters ABOVE THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
The idea was to check/demonstrate/prove that the fugu does NOT naturally produce himself the poison, but rather "manufacture" the substance with the intoxicated and polluted crabs, seashells and other species that he eats and then transform in poison.
So Prof. Noguchi fed the fugus with non contaminated fishes and seafood.
The results : absolutely no one of the fugus had "produced" the lethal poison.
vive la vie & les sushis !!!