I'd like to taste her sushi.

They do DNA analysis in high school?

Wait, I thought of a better perv comment...

I'd like to leave my DNA on her sushi.

Yeah, that's it. Mods, please delete my previous entry.

Now having watched the video, that's both cool (that she undertook this project) and disturbing (how did the restaurants or distributors not catch this?).

She is very articulate and intelligent, as opposed to the reporter who kept trying to talk over her and really seemed to want to talk to her dad.

Makes me wish I'd never worked in broadcasting. I suspect that my IQ dropped sharply during those years.

But, back to the young woman. I was impressed by a number of things, especially the fact that she was very gracious towards the restaurants themselves, and intends to continue eating sushi. I don't think anybody can fault her attitude ;)

SpinStopper: She is very articulate and intelligent,

By articulate you mean that she started every sentence with "Yeah"? (Yeah was about every 3rd word for her as well...like, you know what like I mean like?)

Yeah, is that what you meant by articulate.

Now for real observation. Did not any of you see the size of her neck? I'm sure she could fit my entire California Roll down there if you know like what I mean, yeah.

Bait and switch? Who'da thunk?

I'll give her some DNA, but she has to close her eyes and suck it through a hose.

/penis

lordaction: SpinStopper: She is very articulate and intelligent,

By articulate you mean that she started every sentence with "Yeah"? (Yeah was about every 3rd word for her as well...like, you know what like I mean like?)

Yeah, is that what you meant by articulate.

Now for real observation. Did not any of you see the size of her neck? I'm sure she could fit my entire California Roll down there if you know like what I mean, yeah.

I guess I'm a bit jaded by the language skills of the teenagers in my neighborhood ;)

I'd analyze her DNA.

That a 15 year old undertook this project is just awesome. We need smarter kids.

That being said, starting every sentence with "yeah"... well.. jeez

wtf r her arms REALLLLLLLLLLY long or is it just me?

Im not surprised. I used to be a sushi chef and we regularly used albatross meat or whatever was convenient at the time.

the reporter who kept trying to talk over her and really seemed to want to talk to her dad.

Perhaps because he was the one who actually knew what the hell he was talking about.

aegisalpha: Now having watched the video, that's both cool (that she undertook this project) and disturbing (how did the restaurants or distributors not catch this?).

My guess is that the restaurants were just happy they were getting a good deal and the distributors were the ones mislabeling the fish. Or the restaurants were the ones mislabeling the fish.

Um, I think, you know, that I'd sequency my DNA, yea, on her face, like you know in the iran and such.

Wow, that was a tough science project, cut some fish, drop it in a vial of alcohol and fed ex it to Canada. A+!

aegisalpha: They do DNA analysis in high school?

No, likely her only exposure to it was through her father thus far.
And she did not do a DNA analysis, the lab she sent it to did.

i think she should try eating some food instead of sending it all to the lab.

This isn't "something that's never been done before."

There are plenty of articles out there about distributors relabeling cheaper cuts as something that is more expensive and being busted by inspectors who would obviously have to do an analysis to be certain that's what happened.

sequency? I must be drunk.

Walker: Is our children learning?
Well subby isn't aren't, but hopefully the other children are is.


FTFGWB

Yeah, but did you see how sharp her knees are?

/try the pasta

preezie: wtf r her arms REALLLLLLLLLLY long or is it just me?

Would those be arms? I have drawn stick figures with thicker arms.

/used a sharpie

I'd leave my semen in her vagina.

Flipper?

lordaction: ...she started every sentence with "Yeah"? (Yeah was about every 3rd word for her as well...like, you know what like I mean like?).

Damnit, now her excessive "yeah"s irritated me too.

HoboSong: Im not surprised. I used to be a sushi chef and we regularly used albatross meat or whatever was convenient at the time.

albatross? perhaps you mean albacore.

/fishdork

Interesting how they avoided mentioning which stores/restaurants sold correctly vs. incorrectly labeled fish. That would seem to be a rather important bit of information in a local newscast. They could probably have avoided any liability by simply saying "we tested fish from store X and found it to be correctly labeled" while omitting any mention of stores with incorrectly labeled fish.

Without that information, the story contained no useful information of any kind.

aegisalpha: They do DNA analysis in high school?

Reminds me of the Star Trek episode where the junior high age kid is doing calculus.

lordaction: By articulate you mean that she started every sentence with "Yeah"? (Yeah was about every 3rd word for her as well...like, you know what like I mean like?)

You must not have much exposure to high school kids. She's very articulate compared to most kids her age.

\Now I feel old

I prefer my grouper blackened.

VeryRarely: I prefer my grouper blackened.

Not stirred?

preezie: wtf r her arms REALLLLLLLLLLY long or is it just me?

Yeah. Creepy.

I'd roe her uni.

Wow, sorry Charlie!

repeat.

As has been said before, her dad is a pioneer of "DNA barcoding". She did nothing but send samples to a lab where they were analyzed by techs and computers and more importantly, with the cross contamination in her system, it's an extremely unreliable method to identify samples conclusively.

Don't be duped into thinking that her mom died when she was very young and her step dad beats her, and the only way she could make it in this world was to bury herself in science that would benefit mankind. She had a project she could pick herself, she was well versed (or had proximity to somebody that was well versed) about a single lab protocol that other kids wouldn't know to do, and she had the initiative, possibly on her own, to go try it out and now they're giving results without truly significant amounts of data. Nobody would care if the dad did this work and this way his stuff gets out there either way.

I love seeing young people get into science because it reminds me of me, but this seems a bit glamorized.

/Hope I'm wrong and she really enjoys science
//Hope she knows that one test doesn't always mean definite answer
///Hope daddy doesn't push her too hard into his own work
////Hope scientists can keep the slashy off the endangered species list.

Yeah, yeah, yep, you know that that was an interesting video.

The sushi is p-p-p-people!

She's on Facebook

If you knew Sushi, like I know Sushi, oh, oh. oh, what a gal.

It's like a young Morgan Webb

I don't see the problem with her vernacular. Her speech pattern is fine.
I agree she is way too skinny.

Heh, the comments on the video. Reminds me why I never put up anything on YouTube.

Smerri: She's on Facebook

Countdown to someone snagging all her pics and posting them on Fark/4chan in 3....2....1......

Whamdangler: Wait, I thought of a better perv comment...

I'd like to leave my DNA on her sushi.

Yeah, that's it. Mods, please delete my previous entry.

Mods, please delete BOTH his entries.

Yeah, I want to analyze her Red Snapper.

Here's the deal: she's young, thin and cute. I'm more than twice her age. I want to take her from behind. Like zee bulls. Against a chain link fence. So it leaves an imprint upon her young, succulent, nubile flesh. Like slightly seared tuna.

Smerri: She's on Facebook

What the fark is she touching?

Honestly, she is a massive interrupter. Annoyingly so. Ya. Yeah. Ya. Yeah. Yeah. Ya. Ya.

STOP.

Nice sushi shot !!!( 1/2 way rhtu vid )!!!!! : )

The_Time_Master: What the fark is she touching?

Her own leg, by the looks of it.

Always nice to see guys drooling over a bio geek.

I'll drool over any geek.

/God I wish I'd married a geek.

Did anyone notice the camera man focus in on her crotch about halfway through? Not very subtle.

I'd mislabel her snapper.

/tilapia
//too scared to try sushi anyway

That interviewer was terrible. He kept trying to keep the pace fast, and the energy up, but he was the one bringing it down. What a monotone tool.

So who jerked off in her California rolls?

yeah, well, yeah, like, yeah, yeah....... yeah. yeah.

jazz710: Don't be duped into thinking that her mom died when she was very young and her step dad beats her, and the only way she could make it in this world was to bury herself in science that would benefit mankind.


I'll be in my bunk
/i love fantasy

I just played a drinking game where I had to take a shot every time she said "yeah".

I'll be in the hospital if anyone needs me

lol, just asked my roommate if he knew her from high school

nice, but really not that hot in person

aegisalpha They do DNA analysis in high school?

Many high schools now do DNA electrophoresis which, while not as thorough as sequencing, does basically the same thing.*

*Oversimplified to almost hyperbole
/Vertebrate Bio and Toxicology major

SobrietyFighter:I'll be in my bunk

Yeah, you're right. That's a way better story than the reality and one that I think I might just keep believing for every single female post-doc I come upon.

she looks anorexic and/or bulemic. Some of those shots where she's moving her arms are scary.

What a complete moronic waste of time this whole "groundbreaking" research was!

I was expecting something like "They found out that instead of serving some fish on cold rice, the said sushi restaurants were serving sewer rat rolls" or something on that caliber.
Then I might have thought: "Wow, those scammers! How scandalous that all this time they've been serving rats straight out of the toilets wrapped in rice and seaweed saying it's fish."
But this was lame.
You wanted fish, you got fish, STFU and go home. Geez.
I want to rottendeadfishslap all tree in the face for wasting my time.

How bout finding out how toxic, prescription meds, crap and mercury ridden the fish is that people pay big bucks for at a nice sushi dinner?
MAYBE that would be a little more newsworthy.

soy_bomb: Wow, that was a tough science project, cut some fish, drop it in a vial of alcohol and fed ex it to Canada. A+!

Didn't you watch the video? She had to use tweezers, vials, and alcohol. I bet she even wore a labcoat when she was packing up the vials to get them analyzed.

MadSkillz: That a 15 year old undertook this project is just awesome. We need smarter kids.

That being said, starting every sentence with "yeah"... well.. jeez

Actually, what was so smart about it? All she did was get a sample and sent it to a lab for analysis. Anyone can do that. In fact, I thought ABCNEWS did this last year.

/not trying to knock her, just saying she didn't really do the analysis or anything

What your local sushi bar sells as "White Tuna" is almost never tuna. It should be albacore, if it's truly white tuna, but that isn't the super-white stuff they sell, as real albacore is slightly pink.

The "white tuna" you get is usually Oilfish, which will give you a wicked case of the trots if you eat too much of it.

Scary tag?

More like OBVIOUS tag. You should know better than to think you're eating what they have printed on the label. Seriously.

beautiful_dzaster: I was expecting something like "They found out that instead of serving some fish on cold rice, the said sushi restaurants were serving sewer rat rolls" or something on that caliber...Then I might have thought: "Wow, those scammers! How scandalous that all this time they've been serving rats straight out of the toilets...You wanted fish, you got fish, STFU and go home. Geez.

tilapia = rats with gills

Do your own damn project.

Stupid girl.
Stupid helicopter parent.

beautiful_dzaster: What a complete moronic waste of time this whole "groundbreaking" research was!

I was expecting something like "They found out that instead of serving some fish on cold rice, the said sushi restaurants were serving sewer rat rolls" or something on that caliber.
Then I might have thought: "Wow, those scammers! How scandalous that all this time they've been serving rats straight out of the toilets wrapped in rice and seaweed saying it's fish."
But this was lame.
You wanted fish, you got fish, STFU and go home. Geez.
I want to rottendeadfishslap all tree in the face for wasting my time.

How bout finding out how toxic, prescription meds, crap and mercury ridden the fish is that people pay big bucks for at a nice sushi dinner?
MAYBE that would be a little more newsworthy.

hey man, if you wanted some tinfoil, why didn't you just ask for some?

Aeonite: Why does the default YouTube image of this video show her nethers?

Why wouldn't it?

Whamdangler: Wait, I thought of a better perv comment...

I'd like to leave my DNA on her sushi.

Yeah, that's it. Mods, please delete my previous entry.

Let's hope you're mocking idiots, and are not an idiot yourself.

her face shows shes eating to much sour sushi, sassafras.

Wow. Hardasses vs. Pervs. I'm siding with the hardasses with this one. Thems were some awfully large corners she cut. And she's going to be scary emaciated in five years.

/I'm guessing that somebody behind the camera could've told her to move on that shot...and elected not to.

Aeonite: Why does the default YouTube image of this video show her nethers?

because, if it smells like fish and tastes like fish, it must be fish... (and should go well with that platter)

/i'm already sitting
//over there

Newsflash! Many if not most companies lie to their customers on a regular basis! More at 11.

There was a time [get off my lawn] when parents were not allowed to help with the homework like this.


Of course its tilapia. Sushi eaters are too busy being trendy arseholes to notice the difference.

Ball of Confusion: There was a time [get off my lawn] when parents were not allowed to help with the homework like this.



would like to talk to you

That's not really wild Salmon you're eating. Enjoy the sea lice suckers.

soy_bomb: Wow, that was a tough science project, cut some fish, drop it in a vial of alcohol and fed ex it to Canada. A+!

My thoughts EXACTLY - my 5 year old could do that! This girl didn't actually TEST the DNA, how impressive is this? NOT AT ALL!!!

So, can you actually tell the difference when you're eating it? Or is NY Sushi all about pretentiousness?

Number40: Here's the deal: she's young, thin and cute. I'm more than twice her age. I want to take her from behind. Like zee bulls. Against a chain link fence. So it leaves an imprint upon her young, succulent, nubile flesh. Like slightly seared tuna Mozambique Tilapia.

Long hanging fruit, I know.

Arkanaut: I like how the TV host throws around the phrase "DNA barcoding" like he knows what it means.

I like your smug reference which may perchance boost your ego as i presume you know what dna barcoding means?

nickerj1: Long Low hanging fruit, I know.

My mind's in the gutter, apparently.

: Number40: Here's the deal: she's young, thin and cute. I'm more than twice her age. I want to take her from behind. Like zee bulls. Against a chain link fence. So it leaves an imprint upon her young, succulent, nubile flesh. Like slightly seared tuna Mozambique Tilapia.





*comes to a stop, looks both ways, backs out very slowly, then runs*

/gah i'm gonna have nightmares forever now!

fascinating that the "errors" were always cheaper fish being substituted for more expensive fish.

I'd hit it, flip it, and toss it into my tall hat.


/ta-da

jshine: Without that information, the story contained no useful information of any kind.

This is the goal of morning shows. Nothing useful, do not piss off sponsors even by omission.


And for those of you drooling over teh jailbait, jeebus, stay the fark away from high schools. Or you will jizz ... in your pants. This girl isn't even in the top 20% from what I've seen.

TheShavingofOccam123: fascinating that the "errors" were always cheaper fish being substituted for more expensive fish.


Don't worry, she'll get devastated by the real world when daddy isn't hovering.....

Bacontastesgood: jshine: Without that information, the story contained no useful information of any kind.

This is the goal of morning shows. Nothing useful, do not piss off sponsors even by omission.


And for those of you drooling over teh jailbait, jeebus, stay the fark away from high schools. Or you will jizz ... in your pants. This girl isn't even in the top 20% from what I've seen.


And who are you, a principal? teacher? janitor? cafeteria worker?

Assgasket: The "white tuna" you get is usually Oilfish, which will give you a wicked case of the trots if you eat too much of it.

That's when the oilfish hits the anus.

SobrietyFighter: Arkanaut: I like how the TV host throws around the phrase "DNA barcoding" like he knows what it means.

I like your smug reference which may perchance boost your ego as i presume you know what dna barcoding means?

Nice subliminal pun there, fishstick!

Fark is strobing between hilarious and psychotic today.

lordaction: SpinStopper: She is very articulate and intelligent,

By articulate you mean that she started every sentence with "Yeah"? (Yeah was about every 3rd word for her as well...like, you know what like I mean like?)

Yeah, is that what you meant by articulate.

Now for real observation. Did not any of you see the size of her neck? I'm sure she could fit my entire California Roll down there if you know like what I mean, yeah.

Wow, you're a dick

in the beginning, there was a creepy guy smoking a cigarette just staring at me. He was looking right at me,until he saw the fish. At that point, he knew the Ahi was chimp meat and ran away.

Whamdangler: I'd like to taste her sushi.

Thread over

This same thing happened in Tampa a couple of years ago. A TV station tested 10 grouper sandwiches and only a couple were actually grouper. The rest were some cheap white fish. But the restaurants all thought they had grouper. Their invoices from their supplier all said grouper. I think the supplier paid a ginourmous fine - like $100,000. And I think the fine went to a food bank as part of the plea deal.

Of course, the consumer still paid $12 for a $2 piece of fish.

Rodeodoc: Of course, the consumer still paid $12 for a $2 piece of fish. a tiny slice of a $2 piece of fish

FTFY

Whamdangler: Wait, I thought of a better perv comment...

I'd like to leave my DNA on her sushi.

Yeah, that's it. Mods, please delete my previous entry.

Get OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!

/first thing I thought
//goes to feed evil monkey in closet

pfelon: Yeah. Creepy.

Yeesh...that is one hell of a freakshow

Please, please don't DNA sequence my burger. It tastes good. Don't spoil it by telling me what's in it.

/obscure?
//keyword michael

HoboSong: Im not surprised. I used to be a sushi chef and we regularly used albatross meat or whatever was convenient at the time.

I don't see how this would be prevented UNLESS the customers could tell the difference and stop coming. I mean the equation's all set up. Your supplier wants to call this stuff red snapper. It's just as edible and customers seem to keep coming. There's another supplier who costs 30% more and MIGHT be selling you something else in just the same way.

What, you want to send your OWN incoming shipments out for DNA testing, then switch suppliers 8 times to find one who won't sell you something else (not on the day you tested it anyways), knowing that this effort isn't going to increase your sales in any significant way, and certainly not enough to compensate the doubling of total procurement costs?

Even a law isn't going to change that.

FOUR minutes to give TWO results? What a waste of time!

The best part of the idiocy was the "reporter" concluding with something along the lines of, "Well now, maybe restaurant patrons will take a second glance at the sushi they're ordering."

WHAT?!?! With their farking handy-dandy pocket DNA barcode equipment? Retard. The customers didn't know before, they don't know now. EGADS.

aegisalpha: (how did the restaurants or distributors not catch this?).

There's nothing there to catch. Red snapper is just a placeholder name because people get upset if they see 'indistinguishable cheap white fish' on the menu. Compare: Perch Tilapia Cod Snapper (all pop). Generally speaking, you'll put whatever you have most of the time on the menu, and if you have to substitute something, you try to get something that's virtually identical. Or sometimes, your distributor will have a great deal on something similar to what you usually order, so you'll switch it out and just rely on the servers to let people know instead of reprinting the menu. For example, most of the time, you're probably getting yellowfin or bigeye tuna, but occasionally you'll be able to get bluefin.

As for the tilapia as 'white tuna', either they mean albacore or escolar (super white tuna), and there's no way anybody could get any of those three mixed up. So I figure it's most likely that either the waiter goofed, she took a sample from the wrong fish, or the sample was compromised at some point.

I was kind of disappointed with this, I was expecting it to be something where people were getting scammed with cheap substitutes for really expensive fish, like trying to pass off farmed atlantic salmon as alaskan king salmon or selling tilapia as chilean sea bass. This was like being amazed to discover that your fish and chips was haddock instead of cod.

Makes me feel a whole lot better about the hubby and I ditching our "nice" sushi restaurant in Ft. Collins ($100 for the two of us, sake not included) and migrating over to the local joint for the $10 3 roll lunch plate. I figure, it tastes yummy, neither of us have gotten sick and it's cheap. Don't really care what's being served-could be raw kitty and with enough wasabe, it would probably be fine if served over rice and garnished nicely.

/interesting analysis, though
//I keed, for all the cat loving farkers-I'd never eat someone's cat-I'm allergic

Sushi

In Japanese cuisine, sushi is vinegared rice, usually topped with other ingredients, including fish, various meats, and vegetables. Outside of Japan, sushi is sometimes misunderstood to mean the raw fish itself, or even any fresh raw-seafood dishes.[1] In Japan, sliced raw fish alone is called sashimi and is distinct from sushi, as sashimi is the raw fish component, not the rice component. The word sushi itself comes from an archaic grammatical form of a word that is no longer used in other contexts; literally, "sushi" means "it's sour".[2]

There are various types of sushi: sushi served rolled inside nori (dried and pressed layer sheets of seaweed or alga) called makizushi (巻き) or rolls; sushi made with toppings laid with hand-formed clumps of rice called nigirizushi (にぎり); toppings stuffed into a small pouch of fried tofu called inarizushi; and toppings served scattered over a bowl of sushi rice called chirashi-zushi.

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Oznog: HoboSong: Im not surprised. I used to be a sushi chef and we regularly used albatross meat or whatever was convenient at the time.

I don't see how this would be prevented UNLESS the customers could tell the difference and stop coming. I mean the equation's all set up. Your supplier wants to call this stuff red snapper. It's just as edible and customers seem to keep coming. There's another supplier who costs 30% more and MIGHT be selling you something else in just the same way.

What, you want to send your OWN incoming shipments out for DNA testing, then switch suppliers 8 times to find one who won't sell you something else (not on the day you tested it anyways), knowing that this effort isn't going to increase your sales in any significant way, and certainly not enough to compensate the doubling of total procurement costs?

Even a law isn't going to change that.

The sushi place that goes to that kind of trouble would most likely advertise it. If I ate sushi (I don't), I would go there over other places. If it turns out they were lying all the time, it would be class-action time.

Nice camerawork



/where's the sushi?

Any biologists want to chime in on whether it wouldn't just be cheaper for her to get out a microscope and check these fish out herself? Why go to DNA? Isn't it going to be clear simply from the cell structure?

/ And wow she has long arms indeed... I she'll definitely be playing basketball in college.

yea...yea...yea...

(Her 12,890 text messages to her friends right before the show:)

"h3y y'4ll 1'm l1k3 s000 3xc1t3d!!!! m3 4nd my d4d 4r l1k3 t0t4lly g0nn4 b3 0n tv t0d4y!! w3 l1k3 t0t4lly m3m0rz3d th1s r34lly c00l w0rd c4ll3d DN4 B4RC0DE 4nd stuff l0l!! h4h4!! w3 g0nn4 s0und l1k3 s0000 sm4rt l0l!!!!!

And what's with unnaturally orange skinned reporters btw?

Ball of Confusion: Of course its tilapia. Sushi eaters are too busy being trendy arseholes to notice the difference.

They can fight over the raw fish. I'll all about the grilled eel. If they want to sneak in a snake or loach or somethin', I'm cool with that too, because it's still delicious.

/now something sexual about my eel in her sushi, or something

huntercr: Any biologists want to chime in on whether it wouldn't just be cheaper for her to get out a microscope and check these fish out herself? Why go to DNA? Isn't it going to be clear simply from the cell structure?

If I had to figure out which fish I was eating, I would do the DNA analysis. Way easier than to match the sample muscle cell image to one from a histology database filled with thousands of muscle cells from different fish species.

Honestly?

The sushi industry seeks the overfished/endangered fish stocks the most. They want whatever is "rare" and thus expensive and associate some sort of virtue in eating it.

What this shows is that apparently nobody can tell the difference between a "rare" fish and sustainable tilapia in the first place.

So what, "justice" means we should be absolutely sure that these fish stocks are being overfished to extinction to feed people who can't even tell the difference, but really want to be sure it was the "rare, expensive" fish?

Many (most) of the top-shelf fish are contaminated with absolutely crazy amounts of mercury. Yet people see sushi as part of "eating healthy". It gets really alarming when we're talking about pregnant women eating sushi (or really any form of tuna too, tuna sandwich even).

Smerri: She's on Facebook

Wearing the only shirt she owns, apparently.

She must've been great on the jungle gym with arms like that...

Whamdangler: Wait, I thought of a better perv comment...

I'd like to leave my DNA on her red snappersushi.


FTFY

SpinStopper: She is very articulate and intelligent, as opposed to the reporter who kept trying to talk over her and really seemed to want to talk to her dad.

Makes me wish I'd never worked in broadcasting. I suspect that my IQ dropped sharply during those years.

But, back to the young woman. I was impressed by a number of things, especially the fact that she was very gracious towards the restaurants themselves, and intends to continue eating sushi. I don't think anybody can fault her attitude ;)

Haven't watched the video yet, but what part of Asia is she from?

So where's the classmate she did the project with?

soy_bomb: Wow, that was a tough science project, cut some fish, drop it in a vial of alcohol and fed ex it to Canada. A+!

Sometimes the best science experiments are simple -- they just haven't been done before.

Apparently:

Cutting a piece of fish and mailing it to Canada

=

Doing a DNA analysis

Killface08: Nice sushi shot !!!( 1/2 way rhtu vid )!!!!! : )

Yeah, I gotta think that was intentional -- a prolonged sushi with crotch in background shot?

This looks like it might be her classmate:



I'd go for her, personally.

You bastards said she only had one shirt...

HoboSong: Im not surprised. I used to be a sushi chef and we regularly used albatross meat or whatever was convenient at the time.

The winner!

Number40: Here's the deal: she's young, thin and cute. I'm more than twice her age. I want to take her from behind. Like zee bulls. Against a chain link fence. So it leaves an imprint upon her young, succulent, nubile flesh. Like slightly seared tuna.

You're icky in a scary way, with creepsauce.

I got the feeling from the interview that the dad probably did most of the work for the project.

Number40: I want to take her from behind.

With arms like those, she could probably give you a backrub in the process.

jabelar: soy_bomb: Wow, that was a tough science project, cut some fish, drop it in a vial of alcohol and fed ex it to Canada. A+!

Sometimes the best science experiments are simple -- they just haven't been done before.

This. She formulated a hypothesis, designed the experiment, and the results answered a useful question. Plenty of my grad students don't even understand the Scientific Method as well as this. The DNA typing is just cookbook stuff at this point, it's cheaper to send it out to a commercial lab even if you're a real scientist.

Assgasket: What your local sushi bar sells as "White Tuna" is almost never tuna. It should be albacore, if it's truly white tuna, but that isn't the super-white stuff they sell, as real albacore is slightly pink.

The "white tuna" you get is usually Oilfish, which will give you a wicked case of the trots if you eat too much of it.

aka "Escolar". It gave me orange, oily, explosive diarrhea. One horrifying Google later I thought I had pancreatic cancer. Until I stumbled upon some forum somewhere discussing escolar and realized I'd just had escolar for the first time the night before.

Perducci: Apparently:

Cutting a piece of fish and mailing it to Canada

=

Doing a DNA analysis

Why not? We outsource anything we can and claim it as our own work. I guess she is more prepared for the real world than most kids her age.

HawaiiE: beautiful_dzaster: I was expecting something like "They found out that instead of serving some fish on cold rice, the said sushi restaurants were serving sewer rat rolls" or something on that caliber...Then I might have thought: "Wow, those scammers! How scandalous that all this time they've been serving rats straight out of the toilets...You wanted fish, you got fish, STFU and go home. Geez.

tilapia = rats with gills


And lobsters are the tarantulas of the deep. I still eat 'em. I do not, however, do this:

biatch you aint no nerd? I coulda sworn you were!

NoSugarAdded: Why not? We outsource anything we can and claim it as our own work.

It probably went from Canada to India then.

She should check for a curry DNA signature.

Who's the smoking douche at the begining on the clip? some kinda stalker?

The use of "red snapper" as a euphemism for vagina led me on an interesting journey with a new drinking game at the end. Take turns coming up with a word or phrase least likely to produce NSFW results.

GIS red snapper. 30 pages of images, all SFW

GIS sewing treadle. 23rd page had NSFW image

I hereby recommend vaginas be known as "sewing treadles" versus "red snapper".


SEXY!

Yeah... yeah... right... yeah, yeah, yeah, yes... yeah... right... thank you, I agree with her completely, just not as redundantly.

I just had Sushi tonight so I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

I don't necessarily go for the taste of the fish, more the combination of flavors provided by my favorite Maki.

That being said, if you go to a shady place for Sushi, you're going to get farked around. If you go to a non-traditional Sushi bar, you're probably going to get dicked around. You have to find the place where the local Asians eat, it's always the best.

/Used to eat at a place in AZ where all of the Japanese baseball players would eat for Spring Training
//Tradtional
///Was next to a grocery store and looked like a totally ghetto place
////Best sushi I've ever had, beating out the 5 Star sushi

Ahhh, a red snapper. Mmmmm, very tasty. Okay, Weaver, listen carefully. You can hold on to your red snapper...
...or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-San is bringing down the aisle right now! What's it gonna be?

/STUPID! You're so STU-PIIIIIIIIIIID!

Manic_Repressive: Oznog: Hmm... the results are back...
The readout just says "C A T"?
what? cytosine, adenine, thymine?

Enjoy your vacation, dumbass.

Graphic image content: Images that would make most viewers feel ill, upset, or uncomfortable. This includes but is not limited to: ... dead animals,... (pops)

Not in the case of Free Cat. That would be Fark turning its back on its roots. Free Cat CREATED Fark.

DeathByGeekSquad: You have to find the place where the local Asians eat, it's always the best.

Hmmm...



Pass.

who cares where it's from as long as it's tasty?

brewssuds: who cares where it's from as long as it's tasty?

If people don't care, then why do the restaurants lie? Apparently people do care because if they didn't, there would be no need to lie to the customers.

The Sea Kittens aren't really kittens?

Unknown_Poltroon: Whamdangler: Wait, I thought of a better perv comment...

I'd like to leave my DNA on her sushi.

Yeah, that's it. Mods, please delete my previous entry.

Mods, please delete BOTH his entries.

Nice, except now the quotes live on in your reply even if they ARE deleted...


/and now mine
// she has sharp tuna?

T-Luv: brewssuds: who cares where it's from as long as it's tasty?

If people don't care, then why do the restaurants lie? Apparently people do care because if they didn't, there would be no need to lie to the customers.

bah

Pestifer: The Sea Kittens aren't really kittens?

They're actually land-fish. Cute, cuddly land-fish.

The_Beav: Please, please don't DNA sequence my burger. It tastes good. Don't spoil it by telling me what's in it.


Hahahaha... I misread that as 'booger' - did a triple take there!

brewssuds: T-Luv: brewssuds: who cares where it's from as long as it's tasty?

If people don't care, then why do the restaurants lie? Apparently people do care because if they didn't, there would be no need to lie to the customers.

bah

Double bah!

tycho47: yea...yea...yea...

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ...

my thoughts too in my area's spelling.

slashies cuz i was curious - from Write Well Me
/I see these misused and interchanged all the time. Imagine what it looks like when a sentence reads, "Mom asked Billy to clean his room. He replied, 'Yea, Mom.'" I don't think Billy is really excited about cleaning his room :-), nor is he being archaic ("Yea, verily, mother, right away") so it probably reads better as "Yeah, Mom." (With maybe some rolling of eyes included.)

"Yeah" is the equivalent to "yes" and sounds like "yah." "Yea," as the way we see it used most often now, is the equivalent to "hurray" and sounds like "yay." (Oxford English Dictionary note - "yea" is also a form of yes, and it's used most often in conjunction with "nay" as in "the yeas have it.")

So how do you remember the difference? Here's an easy way: "Yea" ends in "a" - think of the long "a" sound in the word you're trying to say. ("Yea, Sally!!! You made the goal!")

For "yeah," just think of the sound your voice actually makes when you say the word. There's an exhalation of breath that sounds a bit like an "h."

Yea!!!! You've done it!!! Now when someone asks if you know the difference between "yeah" and "yea," you can say, "Yeah, I do." :)

jazz710: As has been said before, her dad is a pioneer of "DNA barcoding". She did nothing but send samples to a lab where they were analyzed by techs and computers and more importantly, with the cross contamination in her system, it's an extremely unreliable method to identify samples conclusively.

Don't be duped into thinking that her mom died when she was very young and her step dad beats her, and the only way she could make it in this world was to bury herself in science that would benefit mankind. She had a project she could pick herself, she was well versed (or had proximity to somebody that was well versed) about a single lab protocol that other kids wouldn't know to do, and she had the initiative, possibly on her own, to go try it out and now they're giving results without truly significant amounts of data. Nobody would care if the dad did this work and this way his stuff gets out there either way.

This.

Smerri: She's on Facebook

Is she... fingering her sushi?

IXI Jim IXI: DeathByGeekSquad: You have to find the place where the local Asians eat, it's always the best.

Hmmm...



Pass.

It's almost like you search for my name and comment, are you stalking me? Am I 1 in a 100?!

That being said, why do you feel all Asians eat cats? If you wanted to be snarky, the best route would've been to highlight that not all Asians eat Sushi.

PsyLord: MadSkillz: That a 15 year old undertook this project is just awesome. We need smarter kids.

That being said, starting every sentence with "yeah"... well.. jeez

Actually, what was so smart about it? All she did was get a sample and sent it to a lab for analysis. Anyone can do that. In fact, I thought ABCNEWS did this last year.

/not trying to knock her, just saying she didn't really do the analysis or anything

Give her a break for even thinking of the idea. Realistically, many high school kids would have thought, let's test the DNA of sushi, then thought, gee, how do I test DNA, scrapped the idea, and done a leaf-pressing project instead. She did have to come up with the parameters, which was to test if it was really tuna, squid, or whatthefarkever one eats for sushi (I hate the stuff).

I'd give her a solid C.

Oznog: Bucky Katt: sushie is disgusting. Lamune_Baba's raccoon isn't any better.

Free Cat is Fark internet tradition. Free Raccoon lacks that.

Well, maybe Fark did start it since I just re-read the farkQ, but I first saw it in 2000 on CollegeHumor. (Please forgive me, I was a freshman)

mrwombat: aegisalpha: (how did the restaurants or distributors not catch this?).

There's nothing there to catch. Red snapper is just a placeholder name because people get upset if they see 'indistinguishable cheap white fish' on the menu. Compare: Perch Tilapia Cod Snapper (all pop). Generally speaking, you'll put whatever you have most of the time on the menu, and if you have to substitute something, you try to get something that's virtually identical. Or sometimes, your distributor will have a great deal on something similar to what you usually order, so you'll switch it out and just rely on the servers to let people know instead of reprinting the menu. For example, most of the time, you're probably getting yellowfin or bigeye tuna, but occasionally you'll be able to get bluefin.

As for the tilapia as 'white tuna', either they mean albacore or escolar (super white tuna), and there's no way anybody could get any of those three mixed up. So I figure it's most likely that either the waiter goofed, she took a sample from the wrong fish, or the sample was compromised at some point.

I was kind of disappointed with this, I was expecting it to be something where people were getting scammed with cheap substitutes for really expensive fish, like trying to pass off farmed atlantic salmon as alaskan king salmon or selling tilapia as chilean sea bass. This was like being amazed to discover that your fish and chips was haddock instead of cod.

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Ummm not to be a sympathizer(?) here but for those of you saying she sounds and probably is an idiot did you not hear the part in the video about her heading to Johns Hopkins to attend university? Last I checked they weren't exactly Central Community College. Also this answers the Chris Hansen age/pedo question. Double Flawless victory.

/insert random sushi/DNA joke here

borscope: The use of "red snapper" as a euphemism for vagina led me on an interesting journey with a new drinking game at the end. Take turns coming up with a word or phrase least likely to produce NSFW results.

GIS red snapper. 30 pages of images, all SFW

GIS sewing treadle. 23rd page had NSFW image

I hereby recommend vaginas be known as "sewing treadles" versus "red snapper".

SEXY!


My granny had that sewing machine. I'm traumatized now.

/hooked on FARK worked for me!

zunkus: Ummm not to be a sympathizer(?) here but for those of you saying she sounds and probably is an idiot did you not hear the part in the video about her heading to Johns Hopkins to attend university? Last I checked they weren't exactly Central Community College.

Nope, it's more like "Daddy has connections in the academic community, and probably not a small amount of money to cover my tuition."

Some of the smartest people I know when to the equivalent of Central Community College, by the way.

'Get what you pay for'?? You ARE getting what you pay for!! First of all, restaurant managers are very aware of the bait and switch, they do it on purpose to save money. If they put REAL tuna on the menu, they'd have to charge more, and you'd have to pay more.

/Old news is so awesome.

Sushi is just the delivery device for wasabi. Technically speaking, you could put the wasabi on cold wet cardboard, and it would still be considered sushi. I love wasabi. I'm not 100% sure how to spell it though.

Sadly, I have recently found that most wasabi is not in fact wasabi.

calbert: When this was news last August, I was a little impressed and admired their initiative. Until I read more and found out that her father is a scientist and early proponent of the use of DNA bar coding.

Parental involvement in their project distracts from the 'junior scientists' angle.

And, even though she lives in New York City, somehow the media learned of her fascinating story!

Next time someone biatches about affirmative action, take a good, long look at this story, and think really, really hard about what "meritocracy" means.

tillerman35: Sadly, I have recently found that most wasabi is not in fact wasabi.

Very true. In fact, it's probably harder to get authentic, high-quality wasabi than it is to get quality raw fish.

I was once a sushi chef, and sometimes we just used alligator meat or snake meat instead of fish.

Oh shiat. This thread went green and now everyone thinks my initial comments makes me look like a prick.

Yeah, I think I just learned an important lesson. Assume every TF article will go green and that gay, homosexual liters will not be used to my style.

sseye: calbert: When this was news last August, I was a little impressed and admired their initiative. Until I read more and found out that her father is a scientist and early proponent of the use of DNA bar coding.

Parental involvement in their project distracts from the 'junior scientists' angle.

And, even though she lives in New York City, somehow the media learned of her fascinating story!

Next time someone biatches about affirmative action, take a good, long look at this story, and think really, really hard about what "meritocracy" means.

WTF does AA have to do with this? There aren't any black scientists in the USA?

Jesus H. As a former student whose white parents didn't help me out for jack shiat, nothing bothers me like AA.

We will soon have a black president. When is all the whining about inequality finally going to stop and personal responsibility going to start?

SpinStopper: She is very articulate and intelligent, as opposed to the reporter who kept trying to talk over her and really seemed to want to talk to her dad.

Makes me wish I'd never worked in broadcasting. I suspect that my IQ dropped sharply during those years.

But, back to the young woman. I was impressed by a number of things, especially the fact that she was very gracious towards the restaurants themselves, and intends to continue eating sushi. I don't think anybody can fault her attitude ;)

Rewatch the video. It's *her* who keeps interrupting the broadcaster.

SpinStopper: She is very articulate and intelligent, as opposed to the reporter who kept trying to talk over her and really seemed to want to talk to her dad.

Makes me wish I'd never worked in broadcasting. I suspect that my IQ dropped sharply during those years.

But, back to the young woman. I was impressed by a number of things, especially the fact that she was very gracious towards the restaurants themselves, and intends to continue eating sushi. I don't think anybody can fault her attitude ;)


Umm, it was she who interrupted the reporter continually, not letting him finish his comment before interjecting, "Yah," all over the place.

because she knew he had interrupted her and was trying to claim her 5 minutes of fame. (that she earned)

There are three things that smell like fish.

One of them is fish.

If the guy is such a science whiz, then why did he have his daughter send the shiat off to canada? i'm sure he can do a dna digest and pcr in his own lab...stingy fark.

Perducci: zunkus: Ummm not to be a sympathizer(?) here but for those of you saying she sounds and probably is an idiot did you not hear the part in the video about her heading to Johns Hopkins to attend university? Last I checked they weren't exactly Central Community College.

Nope, it's more like "Daddy has connections in the academic community, and probably not a small amount of money to cover my tuition."

Some of the smartest people I know when to the equivalent of Central Community College, by the way.

I definetely was not knocking any Community College, just saying that Johns Hopkins pry isn't the easiest place to get into(unless as you say daddy has connections). I took Community College classes in the summers while I was home from the school I attended.

calbert: When this was news last August, I was a little impressed and admired their initiative. Until I read more and found out that her father is a scientist and early proponent of the use of DNA bar coding.

Parental involvement in their project distracts from the 'junior scientists' angle.

I didn't see her taking full credit for everything in that video. I'm sure her father helped her and she didn't do the analysis herself.

I didn't get so much that she was a genius, but she was intelligent and probably learned a lot in the process.

It also raises the question of are we buying what we think we're buying? A year or so ago, a guy in Japan was jailed for ?? (can't remember how long) for selling beef mixed with pork (and maybe chicken) and labeling it as beef.

Currently, the protein industry in the USA is struggling with COOL regulations (Country Of Origin Labeling).

As a hypothetical, a cow was born in Canada, shipped across to the US and eventually sent to Mexico for slaughter.

What does that Country of Origin Label say? I know, but do most consumers? And what do you make of a label that says "Product of USA, Canada and Mexico" as compared to "Product of Canada, US and Mexico"?

Does anyone really care?

Personally, I care that it's cooked enough to be safe from most bacteria, but still somewhat rare and that it tastes good.

I think we should spend more energy labeling our fish for what it is than getting all hung up on where our steak was birthed and slaughtered.

And I don't even care if they just put "something we caught in the Pacific" as the type of fish, just don't mislabel tilapia as dolphin.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. STFU.

TheIcelander:lordaction: By articulate you mean that she started every sentence with "Yeah"? (Yeah was about every 3rd word for her as well...like, you know what like I mean like?)

You must not have much exposure to high school kids. She's very articulate compared to most kids her age.


And that is sad. At least she didn't overuse "like"

So she cut some bits off some fish and sent it to a lab. So what? How is that clever? Maybe if she worked at the lab or invented the process by which they derive the species of fish, but using scissors and UPS? No so much.

I love me them brainy girls.

Ok, you got me. I whacked it on the sushi. Is it really so wrong for a man to love raw fish?

Link (new window)

The Tubes

she looks like a muppet.

lordargent Quote 2009-01-14 09:29:04 PM
It's like a young Morgan Webb

I just wanted to 12 or 18 that for ya! Haven't read any comments below that yet but that was what i thought! Hopefully she will marry a programmer (see below)

/still a bummer that her dad did the "science project" which seems to have consisted of nothing more than him paying for her and her friends to go eat sushi (and not eat) grocery store sushi. They sent the samples to a lab in CANANADADA which did all of the real work (sequencing and PCR testing) and she makes a big freaking display board with shiate printed out from the internet proving her hypothesis while at the same time promoting her father's political agenda in a cutesy and poignant manner with a dumbshiat reporter at 3 in the morning AND getting into Johns Hopkins in one fell swoop? That is the smart part...

//slashies
///no one does that anymore.

Assignment : subbie must learn the difference between "where" and "were".

/the grammar on Fark needs to be alot better then it is.

Lamune_Baba: Ball of Confusion: Of course its tilapia. Sushi eaters are too busy being trendy arseholes to notice the difference.

Probably true, but if they're like I used to be, they've never actually had the "real thing" so they have nothing to compare it to.

They can fight over the raw fish. I'll all about the grilled eel.

Word. I also discovered recently that I love saba sushi. I read recently that there's a particular kind of sushi that's supposed to be bluefin tuna, but many restaurants in the US substitute some other kind of tuna. Apparently if you've had bluefin before, you can tell the difference.

There's a nondescript sushi place I like to go to that has uninviting closed doors but is very nice inside. Mostly Japanese clientele. Service is pretty lousy until you order something that is 1) not on the pre-printed menu, and 2) sufficiently weird that it marks you as a "real" sushi eater and not some gaijin who likes California rolls made with imitation crab.

/Ordered salmon roe and mackerel using the Japanese names for them
//got great service after that
///their California rolls are made with actual snow crab

calbert: When this was news last August, I was a little impressed and admired their initiative. Until I read more and found out that her father is a scientist and early proponent of the use of DNA bar coding.

Parental involvement in their project distracts from the 'junior scientists' angle.

yeah.

DaBishop: I'd leave my semen in her vagina.

Subtle.

Aeonite: Why does the default YouTube image of this video show her nethers?

Ummm... to tease us?

beautiful_dzaster: (Her 12,890 text messages to her friends right before the show:)

"h3y y'4ll 1'm l1k3 s000 3xc1t3d!!!! m3 4nd my d4d 4r l1k3 t0t4lly g0nn4 b3 0n tv t0d4y!! w3 l1k3 t0t4lly m3m0rz3d th1s r34lly c00l w0rd c4ll3d DN4 B4RC0DE 4nd stuff l0l!! h4h4!! w3 g0nn4 s0und l1k3 s0000 sm4rt l0l!!!!!

And what's with unnaturally orange skinned reporters btw?

FAIL. Text message has 218 characters. Text message limit, including phone number it is sent from, is 160 characters.

/sorry, pet peave

Smerri: She's on Facebook

Bigger image (just replace the 's' in the filename with an 'n'):



I wondered what she was doing with her finger, maybe she'll be DNA sequencing birds next.

She says she's on her way to John Hopkins. As what, a patient? It looks like her arms could snap off at any moment.

The good news: no lost pets were found.

tkir: I wondered what she was doing with her finger, maybe she'll be DNA sequencing birds next.

Well it's obvious to every woman what she's doing with her hand.. hiding the top of the inside of her leg from the camera lens so you 40 year old geezer internet pervs can't see her box.

Cerebral Ballsy: Well it's obvious to every woman what she's doing with her hand.. hiding the top of the inside of her leg from the camera lens so you 40 year old geezer internet pervs can't see her box.

Yeah, well, ladies cross their ankles while whores cross their legs so I say stop pretending and give me the box shot.

/yeah!

SpinStopper:

Makes me wish I'd never worked in broadcasting. I suspect that my IQ dropped sharply during those years.


I had to deal with journalism majors in college and felt the same way. Dare to mention the lack of displayed intelligence and common sense to a journalist and you get the holier than thou attitude. I used to find that amusing until one of them at a former employer decided to light a cigarette up while preparing to go on-air about a natural gas leak that forced the evacuation of half a city block.

First responders were still at the scene, and you could smell the gas in the air(where she was standing was even closer to the leak). There were two other news crews from other outlets covering the event and none of them thought it was a big deal either, but a few of us decided to head back to the van to "get some equipment"... just in case. I think that someone from the local FD asked the budding anchor-wannabe whether she was suicidal or just plain stupid before taking the thing out of her mouth and extinguishing it (they were all escorted from the area soon afterward).

Not too many rocket scientists as a whole in that group.

/many moons ago
//don't find too many rocket scientists here in the Defense Belt either... I find that irony quite amusing/disturbing

Sometimes the best science experiments are simple -- they just haven't been done before.

This. She formulated a hypothesis, designed the experiment, and the results answered a useful question. Plenty of my grad students don't even understand the Scientific Method as well as this. The DNA typing is just cookbook stuff at this point, it's cheaper to send it out to a commercial lab even if you're a real scientist.

Not this. 1)This has been done before, with better protocols, 2)she most likely didn't formulate anything more than the outfit she was going to wear to the the news report, 3)and she certainly didn't use the scientific method.

She went out in a non-controlled system and took random samples, preserved them crudely, sent them to a black box lab that shot her back a probability. She then took that probability and because daddy says DNA Barcoding rulz0rs, she just rounded that p-value down to the nearest 0.05.

/Not clever.
//Not good science.
///She shouldn't get a grade for something she had a minimal part in.
////How do you think the kid that made the solar system mobile feels?
//The big yellow one is the sun!


Fail.

Whoever has been pulling this off should be celebrated as a hero of capitalism.

Caveat Emptor, biznatches!

I haven't got any sushi, I've just got this bloody albatross....

ALBATROSS!

Winnar!

Ashtrey: You ARE the father!

lordargent: It's like a young Morgan Webb

I don't know, kinda looks more like a brunette Man Coulter.

Its still hitable, I just think Fist of angry god is a strech.

Smerri: She's on Facebook

She must really like that shirt.

Oh god! The ESCOLAR!


My ass, it assplodes!

She kinda looks like Olive Oyl.

I do think it's hilarious that probably most sushi aficionados who went to these places couldn't tell the difference.

I'm glad the tests revealed other fish and not cream of sum yung gai.

Ral: Word. I also discovered recently that I love saba sushi. I read recently that there's a particular kind of sushi that's supposed to be bluefin tuna, but many restaurants in the US substitute some other kind of tuna. Apparently if you've had bluefin before, you can tell the difference.

It's about on a level with telling the difference between snow crab and king crab. Bluefin's got an identifiably different texture. It also affects the belly, so the otoro from a bluefin is a bit like eating a really cold pat of tuna-flavored butter. It's tough to find outside of really busy high end sushi places because it's too expensive to want to make anything but the scrapings into spicy tuna (which is not as gross as it sounds), so places won't buy it unless it's cheap or they know they'll sell it all.

Here, buy some. (new window)

monsieurstabby: aegisalpha: They do DNA analysis in high school?

No, likely her only exposure to it was through her father thus far.
And she did not do a DNA analysis, the lab she sent it to did.

Good job on replying before reading the very next post.

goatfister1999: Oh god! The ESCOLAR!


My ass, it assplodes!

Jesus Christ. The oil hits the anus.

rulego66 2009-01-15 06:58:00 AM
beautiful_dzaster: (Her 12,890 text messages to her friends right before the show:)

"h3y y'4ll 1'm l1k3 s000 3xc1t3d!!!! m3 4nd my d4d 4r l1k3 t0t4lly g0nn4 b3 0n tv t0d4y!! w3 l1k3 t0t4lly m3m0rz3d th1s r34lly c00l w0rd c4ll3d DN4 B4RC0DE 4nd stuff l0l!! h4h4!! w3 g0nn4 s0und l1k3 s0000 sm4rt l0l!!!!!

And what's with unnaturally orange skinned reporters btw?

FAIL. Text message has 218 characters. Text message limit, including phone number it is sent from, is 160 characters.

/sorry, pet peave

Oops! LOL.

Autism much? ;o)
Not that anything's wrong with it. I find it cute when they do the happy dance.

Hat off to you Sir. You have an eye and mind for detail and I value that in a person.
That was a FAIL indeed on my behalf.

I couldn't get past 1:52 - 1:57...what happens at the end?

Selsen Green Is People!

/Too obscure?