Victims to Ban Pong fresh market: Fug U

Simpsons already did it.

At least they weren't covered in peanuts.

Wouldn't it have been more economical to just stay at the funeral home?

I mean, Gas is around 3.87 here.

Well THAT blows...

"It's a good thing I'm open minded."

The culprit:




/Poison... poison... tasty fish!

Could be a murder attempt...

Some nerve gas has been stolen from military trucks.

They could have put it inside him. Do you know what that means?

Leo "the Fart" will pass gas one more time.

I came in here to say something snarky, but having once suffered from severe food poisoning and remembering how truly miserable and scared I was, I'll go for a sincere comment and just say I hope they all make it through okay. That's just awful :(

Let's just hope the funeral parlor was buy one, get one free that day.

/at least they weren't Schwetty

hornblowerfan: I came in here to say something snarky, but having once suffered from severe food poisoning and remembering how truly miserable and scared I was, I'll go for a sincere comment and just say I hope they all make it through okay. That's just awful :(

Sounds as if the food poisoning was worse than you thought; your testicles are pretty much dead.

Hundreds of Japanese still die every year from badly prepared fugu.

"What was it we had for dinner tonight?"
"Well, we had a choice: steak or fish."
"Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna."

I hope they got there, Balls Out.

Haoie: Hundreds of Japanese still die every year from badly prepared fugu.

Let them die I say!

/silly to eat poison
//silly to eat something that could be poison
/// surely seaweed is cheaper

"...eating puffer fish balls"



How YOU doin'?

Are they sure is wasn't canned salmon that caused the issue?

Speaking of puffy balls, I have a story for Fark. Apparently a female friend of mine used a pool cleaner as a sexual aid upon her boyfriend as they were swimming. Now there was a sudden burst of pain, and lots of uncomfortable throbbing for the next few days but he thought it would all get better, despite the fact that his balls had grown to about double size or triple size (he thought they were just bruised and swollen or something). Now several months later, he actually decides to see a doctor about it. Turns out there was a rupture in his testicles or something, and they filled with water. He has had to have them drained over time, through painful insertion of needles and such. Miraculously it looks like he will be able to reproduce once this is all over.

Now tell me, will you ever look at one of these the same again?

People eat puffer fish balls?

I always thought they swelled up as a defensive tactic, but apparently the little bastards are all castrati...

"But I didn't eat the mousse..."

Haoie
Hundreds of Japanese still die every year from badly prepared fugu.

I'm wondering what your source is on that figure. That number sounds pretty high to me. The only people who die from improperly prepared fugu these days are fishermen who catch and clean their own fish. I've had fugu a few times, and nobody worries about the dangerous side of it. People who prepare fugu have licences to do so.

OW! MY (puffer fish) BALLS!

/Obvious

Tucci: desolationrow: Haoie
Hundreds of Japanese still die every year from badly prepared fugu.

I'm wondering what your source is on that figure. That number sounds pretty high to me. The only people who die from improperly prepared fugu these days are fishermen who catch and clean their own fish. I've had fugu a few times, and nobody worries about the dangerous side of it. People who prepare fugu have licences to do so.

Aren't they duty=bound to commit seppuku if a customer dies? That right there would ensure they got it right first time, every time.

Or that could merely explain why there are so few fugu chefs, and hence why it is so expensive here.

Fish don't have balls.

fool me...once...i won't get fooled again

A lot of Japanese *do* die from Fugu, but the vast majority are fishermen who don't know what they're doing, and those who simply push their luck too far. There was this famous comedian, for instance, who ate something like six or seven Fugu livers in a single sitting. They *are* delicious, but since they contain an even higher concentration of neurotoxin than the regular flesh, you don't wanna overdo it. He overdid it. That said, I have eaten Fugu liver, and it is unbelievably tasty.

The moral of the story: anything can kill you, if badly prepared, or if it's simply gone off. I spend as much time as I can eating sushi and blue steak, and I've only suffering food poisoning once. Which is what I get for ordering a chicken fajita at a Zeller's restaurant.

aagrajag: They *are* delicious, but since they contain an even higher concentration of neurotoxin than the regular flesh, you don't wanna overdo it. He overdid it. That said, I have eaten Fugu liver, and it is unbelievably tasty.


That was a morality core they installed after I flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin to make me stop flooding the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable, while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters."
/How much neurotoxin does the regular fish have, exactly?

phatface: Fish don't have balls.

fool me...once...i won't get fooled again

hehehe I'm imagining what fish balls would look like....

what's the word for unstreamline??

Haoie: Hundreds of Japanese still die every year from badly prepared fugu.

I'm officially calling bullshiat on that. According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's page on natural food poisoning safety, (new window) between 0 and 6 people each year have died between 1997 and 2007, an average of 3.1 people per year.

There have been an average of 31.5 poisoning incidents, and an average of 45.9 people per year got sick, but most lived.

aagrajag: A lot of Japanese *do* die from Fugu, but the vast majority are fishermen who don't know what they're doing

forgive me if I'm wrong here but isn't knowing about fish part of the job description, for a fisherman I mean...? I shudder to think what they get from the ocean and serve up as fish

aagrajag: A lot of Japanese *do* die from Fugu, but the vast majority are fishermen who don't know what they're doing, and those who simply push their luck too far. There was this famous comedian, for instance, who ate something like six or seven Fugu livers in a single sitting. They *are* delicious, but since they contain an even higher concentration of neurotoxin than the regular flesh, you don't wanna overdo it. He overdid it. That said, I have eaten Fugu liver, and it is unbelievably tasty.

This has nothing to do with preparation. just 2mg of the toxin will kill you. 8 out of 16 kinds of fugu have edible liver. The other 8, not so much... a single tiny piece will kill you. The training in a fugu chef is mostly to tell which parts of which fish are edible and which are not. People die because they make mistakes and eat inedible parts of fish which they think are edible. Much like mushroom poisoning.

ktybear: aagrajag: A lot of Japanese *do* die from Fugu, but the vast majority are fishermen who don't know what they're doing

forgive me if I'm wrong here but isn't knowing about fish part of the job description, for a fisherman I mean...? I shudder to think what they get from the ocean and serve up as fish

Catching and preparing the fish are two very different skills. Some ambitious fishermen fail to make that important distinction.

ktybear: aagrajag: A lot of Japanese *do* die from Fugu, but the vast majority are fishermen who don't know what they're doing

forgive me if I'm wrong here but isn't knowing about fish part of the job description, for a fisherman I mean...? I shudder to think what they get from the ocean and serve up as fish

Aagrajag is right, but according to the page I linked earlier, most of the deaths amongst people who caught the fish themselves were due to several species that look very similar. Again, just like mushroom poisoning, it's always the semi-pros who die by eating the wrong thing due to misidentification.

ktybear: what's the word for unstreamline??

anti-aerodynamic?

shrinkage happens if the water is cold

phatface: anti-aerodynamic?

Are you suggesting these fish can fly?

lindseyp: phatface: anti-aerodynamic?

Are you suggesting these fish can fly?

anti-aquadynamic?

People die from mortality. Fugu has only accelerated the process.

When I was on Okinawa an experienced and well known fugo chef would snorkel out and catch his own fish. One day he caught some and as he prepared to go to his restaurant, he slung the bag of fish over his shoulder causing the fugo to puff up. The spines penetrated the bag and thus the chef's skin. He died.

/Irony?

Wonko Fortytwo: When I was on Okinawa an experienced and well known fugo chef would snorkel out and catch his own fish. One day he caught some and as he prepared to go to his restaurant, he slung the bag of fish over his shoulder causing the fugo to puff up. The spines penetrated the bag and thus the chef's skin. He died.

/Irony?

Was it raining, and was the fish for his wedding dinner?

phatface: Wonko Fortytwo: When I was on Okinawa an experienced and well known fugo chef would snorkel out and catch his own fish. One day he caught some and as he prepared to go to his restaurant, he slung the bag of fish over his shoulder causing the fugo to puff up. The spines penetrated the bag and thus the chef's skin. He died.

/Irony?

Was it raining, and was the fish for his wedding dinner?

I think the chef needed a knife.

I call shenagins. None of these people were even tested to see if they had consumed 'puffer fish.' Every time some gets sick from eating fish in Thailand, they blame it on 'puffer fish' disguised as normal fish by malicious fishermen. Never mind that in Thailand some people routinely leave seafood products outside in 100 degree heat for hours, if not DAYS. This women who sold the 800 fish balls most likely had not kept them properly refrigerated for a few days and stil sold them anyway to avoid losing money.

Why would you eat something like that?

Something's going on in the cockpit
/what is it?
//that thing at the front of the plane where the pilot sits...

daffy: Why would you eat something like that?

THIS, would be a excellent question for Colonel Angus.

Luckily, there was a map to the hospital on the back of the deceased's memorial booklet.

daffy: Why would you eat something like that?

'Fish balls' are the same thing as 'meatballs.' It's like you get with your pasta, but ground up fish instead of beef.

Gish21: daffy: Why would you eat something like that?

'Fish balls' are the same thing as 'meatballs.' It's like you get with your pasta, but ground up fish instead of beef.

But Puffer Fish is poisonous. Why don't you just go eat Drano Balls and drink Anti Freeze Slushies.?
Farking retards. Die already. You're taking up space.

Puffer fish? I barely knew her.

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute:
But Puffer Fish is poisonous. Why don't you just go eat Drano Balls and drink Anti Freeze Slushies.?
Farking retards. Die already. You're taking up space.

Because they're not made from puffer fish, they're made from normal fish. Maybe one puffer fish got mixed in somehow. Most likely, they were just off due to some some bacteria. They often report 'puffer fish' poisoning in Thailand without doing any testing.