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Daredevil Diners Of Tsuruoka


Are you sick of all those government health warnings about the dangers of eating perfectly good food? Miss the days when the Health and Safety Police were not all powerful and pie and chips down the local greasy spoon was a high risk experience? You should head for Japan where high risk dining is still on the menu.

Beauty An The Beastly Homo.
by Ed Butt
May 2009

The Daredevil Diners of Tsuruoka
by Ian R Thorpe
2007-01-30

CREATIVE COMMONS: Attribute, non commercial, no derivs
KEYWORDS: food, gourmet, dining, fish, fugu, puffer, poison, Japan, humour, humor
In some parts of the world eating out can be an experience only daredevils and people with strong stomachs can handle. You may be offered a sheeps eye in the middle east for example, the lightly sautéed entrails of chicken in Brazil, monkey’s brains in Indonesia or a floater pie in Australia.

The Japanese can top it all of course, well they’re weird aren’t they? But fair play to them, they’re always up for it whatever “it” may be, especially if not to be would mean losing face in front of your mates. Here is a tale in which eating food becomes a game of Russian Roulette.

Three men from a group of seven who decided to dine out together are still in intensive care after eating a dish of Fugu fish testicles in a specialist rastaurant. Diners who choose Fugu or blowfish have to sign a disclaimer confirming they have been warned of the risks and accept full responsibility for their actions. Even with that precondition the fish can only be prepared by specially trained, licensed chefs. In spite of the precautions and safeguards a lot of people think it should be illegal in Japan for restaurants to serve fugu, (species of blowfish found in other parts of the world are not dangerous.) The internal organs of the Fugu fish contain a poison far more powerful than cyanide and the highest concentration is found in the testicles.

I always said sushi was a load of bollocks.

So why would anyone eat fugu bollocks anyway? It’s like putting a fully loaded gun to your head and pulling the trigger then wondering why your brains are scattered across the wall. Well apparently the testicles apart from being the most poisonous part are also the tastiest.

You need balls to eat Fugu fish balls though.

Rest assured, Fugu will not be replacing cod in our fish and chip shops any time soon

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