Posted on 01/06/2017 10:42:09 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
New year, new bluefin tuna selling for an outrageously high price in Japan. A single 466-pound tuna was sold for $632,000 during the annual auction that kicks off the year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market.
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Not many bugs attack both fish and humans, but there some. They can be transmitted by sushi!!
Yes, the sick passengers all had the fish!
“A single 466-pound tuna was sold for $632,000”
I can get tuna for $1 per 6oz can. I can smuggle that into Japan and get RICH!
Surely not! You don't say!
Seriesly why would anyone pay $1500 for a pound of fish meat!? Just to get sick too (I agree with your assessment of sushi; that disgusting trend needs to go the way of the 80's heavy metal hairdo)
Make a hella lotta sammiches!
I had the lasagna.
Yes I remember, I had the lasagna
You beat me.
Might be better than smuggling deposit bottles into high value states!
Or Vietnam where they were fifty cents for a two cent US bottle!
[[No more sushi for me! After a news report of an emergency landing at O’Hare because many passengers had projectile vomiting! ]]
It was only temporary vomiting- they were good to go the next day- eating more sushi- think of it as a quick purging of the system- an upper colonic so to speak-
More people get sick from chicken than they do raw fish I’m betting- something like 2/3’rds of all chicken tested had salmonella- which can remain active on surfaces for months if not bleached- and can even remain active in toilets reinfecting people even after being cleaned with common toilet cleaners that don’t contain bleach
Blue fin tuna is really really really good. I had some about 15 years ago in Taiwan - when the price wasn’t nearly so high!
Think of very tender roast beef.
I’m a regular sushi eater. No doubt it’s occasionally gone bad, but that’s true of almost any food. But otherwise, it tastes great and is very healthy.
Fukushima Fillet o’ fish....mmmmmmm, yum.
I’ll bet the cast of wicked tuna are pissed- they get only around anywhere from $8-$25 per pound for the best tunas they get- most tunas weighing in around 300 lbs to 600- so the fishermen get only around $3000 to around $20,000 for the very best ones-
What made this particular tuna worth so much per pound in Japan?
i love sushi... but i would not eat it on an airplane...
Blue Fin tuna is relatively rare.
Best tuna filet I ever had looked & tasted like steak, not fish. Needed a steak knife to slice it.
Gonna go out on a limb here but it was stated as an annual auction, wonder if it was like a charity benefit auction.
Ah that could be why-
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