"....and they gave me the snake eye when I came home with a mouse"
Posted on 01/18/2018 8:25:44 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
A California man is likely altering his regular sushi habit after discovering a tapeworm that may have entered his body through the raw salmon he loves so much...
...The man thought he was dying, Banh said, “Oh my goodness my guts are coming out of me,” and started pulling at the worm. Once the tapeworm moved in his hand, Banh said, instead of just being horrified, the man was also relieved to know that it wasn’t his own entrails.
(Excerpt) Read more at kfor.com ...
Didn’t eat enough pickled ginger and maybe some kimche on the side, gauranteed to kill worms.
Go fishing, fish have worms
On the positive side, he achieved his weight loss goals.....
At the end of WWII our medics went ashore in Tokyo. One unusual ailment that they encountered was intestinal parasites, from eating raw fish.
This is just so disturbing!
Ewwww
Why would I eat it raw when I can build a fire!?
I've had that problem since I was 12.
And I never even ate sushi...
Fake news.
Aren’t those good for dieting? Why would you take it out? Just clip it.
And it had to come out , , , shall we say , , , the hard way. Yowza,
"....and they gave me the snake eye when I came home with a mouse"
Post this again tomorrow. At breakfast time.
You owe me repairs to my iPad screen for that.
Long ago I had an instructor,a former WWII Navy Corpsman.
He enjoyed telling about carefully removing twenty-foot tapeworms from civilians after the war.
If any segment remains it will reproduce; careful not to break it.
That was usually an interesting class.
Beats me. I have friends who insist that raw fish sushi is a delicacy.
I remind them that sushi delicacies also include fugu, pufferfish, that occasionally kills their fans.
Okay. I will send you a quadrillion bitcoins.
Check your freepmail.
We oughta look for Youtubes of tapeworms just to freak out those who have never seen them.
I remind them that sushi delicacies also include fugu, pufferfish, that occasionally kills their fans.
So does Chiplotle...
I like the taste of sashimi, but not enough to risk intestinal parasites for it. There’s a reason our ancestors started cooking their food.
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