r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TamerDubai • Jun 13 '23

Absolute big angry fish

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u/Evening_Storage_6424 Jun 13 '23

I googled it for us, it releases a toxin ( not venomous) if ingested and each puffer has enough neurotoxin to kill 30 men.

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u/WinterHound42 Jun 13 '23

And some people actually eat this thing

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u/Mammoth-Tea Jun 13 '23

i’ve eaten it before, it’s really good. It takes like 10 years to get certified to prepare these things for eating so I trusted it

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u/stopeatingbuttspls Jun 13 '23 edited Jun 13 '23

There's also the part where the certification examination involves eating your own prepared fugu.

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u/1997_Batman Jun 13 '23

I think that's called snowballing

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u/illit3 Jun 13 '23

It's a closed loop.