Fugu

[hapacheese]

Well, scratch that one off the "Things I Must Eat Before I Die" list. And thankfully, the list didn't get cut short, as the restaurant serving it was a particularly good one (cost me $100 for the meal, though).

It was delicious. It wasn't $100 delicious, but delicious nonetheless. As far as Japanese things I want to try before I die, all that's left is suppon (snapping turtle). And while this may make some of you squeemish, I've already done the raw horse meat, raw whale meat, and just about every sort of innards there are (once, I even ate some animal's uterus, but it was not made known to me until after I finished the dish... the taste was good, but the afterthoughts were baaaaaad). The horse and whale were so-so. Not bad, but probably wouldn't order it myself.

[Monkey]

I have a friend who keeps pet Fugu, don't think he'll be eating them anytime soon though :D

[hapacheese]

Yeah, I can understand that. I have a strict "if I've ever kept one as a pet, I won't eat it" policy, but I think that goes double for any pets that can kill ya.

[Henjin]

Yeah... that's uh... That's interesting...

[hanacker]

I had really crappy fugu at kaitenzushi. It was really crappy.

[hapacheese]

...you had fugu at a kaitenzushi? That just doesn't sound right.

We had fugu sashimi, fugu karaage, fugu chawanmushi, etc.

Henjin > I figure as long as I've never had it as a pet, I should try it at least once. I mean heck, a lot of Indians look at Americans as barbarians for eating cows, right? Same thing goes both ways. It's all a matter of perception. If you like it, eat it... if you don't like it, just swallow it and never eat it again. :)

[Henjin]

No, not that. I mean the fugu part. I'm way too sissy for that. Besides, fried chicken nearly kills me... I don't want to think about potentially toxic food...

[hapacheese]

Heh... I've had raw chicken, too. That was scarier than the fugu.

Hell, I've had raw beef mixed with raw egg :D But, as I've eaten raw eggs all my life, that wasn't scary at all.

[Henjin]

How do you people... not die?

[hapacheese]

Haha... Fresh foods.

I've been hit with food poisoning three times in my life, all from American foods. Never from anything Japanese/raw.

[大きオタク男]

I don't know about Fugu, what kind of food is it?

[hanacker]

No, not that. I mean the fugu part. I'm way too sissy for that. Besides, fried chicken nearly kills me... I don't want to think about potentially toxic food...

Fried chicken is much more toxic than fugu. Every year over 500 people die from salmonella in America, but less than ten die from fugu poisoning in Japan.

[Henjin]

I almost died from KFC.

And fugu is blowfish, ain't it? There was a Simpsons where Homer almost died from it.

[hapacheese]

I'm not sure if fried chicken is inherently more dangerous... You have to look at the number of people eating fugu vs. the number of people eating fried chicken.

But yeah, Henjin is right. Fugu is blowfish.

[Henjin]

You have to look at the number of people eating fugu vs. the number of people eating fugu.

Yeah... It's probably some outrageous ratio like... 1:1...

[hapacheese]

Bwahahahaha... Sorry. That's what I get for trying to type while jet-lagged, no sleep for 2 days, and doing work :D Post has been fixed.

[akitaka]

So I'm assuming you won't eat this (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8324667/)?

[hanacker]

So I'm assuming you won't eat this (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8324667/)?

A young Japanese woman bites into a whale burger at the Lucky Pierrot, a restaurant chain in the port city of Hakodate, on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido.

So that's where Pierrot got his name from...

[akitaka]

I think he owns the joint.

Someone should go over there and check.

[hapacheese]

His name is from Cowboy Bebop, I believe :)

But, I've never eaten cooked whale, which I've heard is tastier.

[Henjin]

I wouldn't have a problem w/ a COOKED whale burger... Kinda weird, but I wouldn't mind.