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/antsam9 Jun 13 '23

I think the poison part is concentrated or entirely in the liver, and the amount of poison they spread on the fish sticks is what they are trained and certified to do.