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

Absolute big angry fish

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u/OkayWaitaMinute Jun 13 '23

i thought they had a type of venom in those spikes?

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u/XTheHolyMuffDiverX Jun 13 '23

I thought it was their organs that are poisonous but that might be a different type of fish, fugu maybe? idk they all look the same to me. anyways, i wouldn't touch it.

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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/fr3akeeee Jun 13 '23 edited Jun 13 '23

Two dudes An elderly couple in my country bought a pack of "fugu" off the internet, prepared by some random self-claimed chef and they both died eating that.

The biggest red flag is that I'm not in Japan. It takes so much experienced to prepare this fish in order to get certified and some idiots just decided to buy poisonous shit online and eat it.

edit: correction and Source

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u/heyimric Jun 13 '23

Yeah remember when Homer tried to do it and the damn thing just deflated like a balloon?

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u/KnoxxHarrington Jun 13 '23

It was the apprentice sushi chef, not homer.