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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_bi_ge/thailand_puffer_fish_deaths_1;_ylt=Ai.LNHp3Nfb1JydDtndMISEE1vAI

BANGKOK, Thailand - Unscrupulous vendors in Thailand have been selling meat of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years, a doctor said Thursday.

Although banned since 2002, puffer fish continues to be sold in large quantities at local markets and restaurants, said Narin Hiransuthikul of Bangkok's Chulalonkorn University Hospital.

"Some sellers dye the meat of puffer fish and make it look like salmon which is very dangerous," Narin said.

Narin said over the past three years more than 15 people have died and about 115 were hospitalized from eating the fish.

The ovaries, liver and intestines of the puffer fish contain tetrodotoxin, a poison so potent that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it can "produce rapid and violent death."

The fish is called fugu in Japan, where it is consumed by thrill-seeking Japanese gourmets for whom the risk of poisoning adds piquancy.

Every year, there are reports of people dying or falling sick in Asia from eating puffer fish. Eating the fish can cause paralysis, vomiting, heart failure and death.

LOL... I'm sorry, it's a terrible thing but that's so damned funny. The human race is un-bloody-believable :)

"Je�us" wrote in message news:fajnat$nto$[email]...

Not precisely funny, but more like ...WTF?!

Is the puffer fish that much more plentiful than, say, bottom-feeding suction eel? I mean, if they're just going to dye the meat to look like salmon, looks like any old fish would do. Especially considering all the risks involved.

-- R Flowers

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7F11.html

Poyzon, ... poyzon, ... poyzon, ... tastee feesh!

I wonder if all those people went through the five stages of death anxiety before they died. And the ones who didn't die, did they sit on the couch eating pork rinds and watching bowling the following day?

Sorry for the gallows humor, but I am a vegetarian. Nobody is ever going to say: "poyzon, ... poyzon, ... poyzon, ... tastee bean!"

Mr. Museum

On Aug 23, 10:14 am, "[email]" wrote:

Uh, ... what did the man say when he was at the orgy with the three women?

Mr. Museum

Apparently, I can no longer count correctly. The man was at an orgy with four women.

Mr. Museum

"[email]" wrote:

Ah, shut up and eat your castor beans!

That is not what the man said.

But, There haven't been any scandals relating to cardboard or newsprint being put into pinto beans lately.

Mr. Museum

[email] wrote:

I would have thought that would be a scandal in of itself... making beans out of old cars must constitute a health hazard, or at least insufficient labelling.

Je�us wrote:

Beans have long been associated with terrorism.

Have you seen Dumb And Dumber?

"Je�us" wrote

But think of all the jagged metal bits you'd get in the packet...

Paul

But no calories...

"Je�us" wrote in message news:fbkqkf$h3m$[email]...

Good iron content, though.

-- R Flowers

And a steel at half the price.

That's just it - this is an indicator how little value human life has, at least in some places. There are people out there willing to risk another persons life for the sake of making 10 cents. I also recall some small manufacturer got caught mincing up old newpapers and mixing it into some kind of food product in recent times.

Tobacco companies? They make a hell of a lot more than 10c though...

You mean like the PowerSource bars, or in real life? (I had hoped to find some reference in a Google search for 'minced up newspaper' but all I got were links to house insulation.)

** I bought those Tesco value sausages once. I can now say that I know what minced newspaper with an Oxo cube rammed in it tastes like! ** ~ Forum post

"Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR mysoul.com.au> wrote in message news:46ce4be4$0$11761$[email]...

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Wrong attribution - I didn't write it, one of the other guys did. It does get hard to tell when the "quote pyramids" get so huge.

-- R Flowers

Apologies then. If you want huge quote pyramids, try alt.puns sometime - they go for hundreds of posts until you have to scroll across the screen to see the later ones.

Paul

Yes! I did a quick search too but also came up empty unfortunately. I saw this in a documentary I downloaded fairly recently (that is to say, in the past 2 months)... if I can figure out which one it was I'll post the info back here.

"Je�us" wrote in message news:faqg4e$bam$[email]...

I believe this may be what you're referring to. It was posted here some weeks ago - cardboard being used in place of pork in baozi.

That is the incident I was thinking of, well done.

"Je�us" wrote in message news:favjq2$s55$[email]...

It gets even better; this story refers to them as "Beijing Steamed Buns":

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/12/international/i051450D76.DTL

Skinner: Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouth-watering Baozi. Chalmers: I thought we were having steamed wontons. Skinner: Oh, no, I said, "steamed buns." That's what I call Baozi. Chalmers: You call Baozi steamed buns. Skinner: Yes, it's a regional dialect. Chalmers: Uh-huh. What region? Skinner: Uh, central Sichuan. Chalmers: Really. Well, I'm from Chengdu and I never heard anyone use the phrase, "steamed buns." Skinner: Oh, not in Chengdu, no; it's a Deyang expression. Chalmers: I see.

-- R Flowers

"R Flowers" wrote:

Those steamed buns look awfully like the ones that come from Dengy Burger.

I don't see why Skinner was hiding it from Chalmers anyway, fire works means good luck where he comes from; maybe this is just more of Skinner's people's inscrutability.

"R Flowers" wrote

Now that's good satire!

Paul

Heh :)

Quote from article: [Stall owner] "Most people can't. It fools the average person," the maker says. "I don't eat them myself."

Enter a fat, balding yellow guy: "Ooh, cardboard buns! Gaaahhgh....

Paul

Je�us wrote:

Ketchup truck hits hamburger stand! Hilarious!

I've heard that puffer fish is so damn expensive, disguising it as Salmon makes no sense; maybe it was to smuggle it in. A few Japanese pay tremendous prices for meals of fugu, tasty fish surrounded by poison. The rich are so lucky, they get to die from eating fancy feast.

Different country - different culture, is why.

Je�us wrote in news:fao652$gg$[email]:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_bi_ge/thailand_puffer_fi

That's why yogurt is different in other countries.

We sell frozen yogurt, which we call Frogurt.

A classic moment.

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Sounds like marriage. <vbg>