Chef Virgilio Martinez Stopped At LAX For Trying To Bring In Frozen Piranhas

cbs2la ^ | May 9, 2019

[BenLurkin]

Customs officers were shocked to find 40 frozen piranhas in the luggage of Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez. The chef said he planned to cook traditional Peruvian dishes at the Los Angeles Times’ month-long food festival Food Bowl.

It took hours of questioning, but Martinez was able to walk out with his piranhas and serve them up the following day, according to the Times.

Piranhas are an omnivorous freshwater fish found in South American rivers. Live piranhas are illegal to import or possess without a permit in California.

[BenLurkin]

Yum....

[Dr. Sivana]

I ate an intact lamb’s head once. I don’t think I could eat that.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Piranhas on a plane!

[PGR88]

I’ve travelled in Asia quite a lot. I think I have eaten every sea-creature that possibly exists and can be caught by man.

[pepsi_junkie]

Some day you eat the piranha, other days the piranha eats you ...

[Calvin Locke]

Those'd make a great Stargazy pie for use in one of the low budget SyFy Channel movies.

Or, to serve Taryn Manning (Worst Cooks wimp).

[subterfuge]

Of course he walked, even though his actions were illegal...his last name ends with a Z.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I can’t figure out if it was actually illegal.

THe law prohibits live piranhas, but these were dead.

So if he properly declared them, I’m not sure he broke any laws — could just be that it took the agents this long to make sure there were no laws being broken.

Don’t know if he properly declared them, because the article says almost nothing.

[Flick Lives]

Mrs Paul’s Frozen Piranhas.
Find them in the frozen food section before they find you.

[subterfuge]

Thanks

[Viking2002]

LOL!

[Billthedrill]

"Hi, Chef Martinez! What's for supper?"

"You."

[dfwgator]

"Hi, Chef Martinez! What's for supper?"

If the waiter hands you a mirror, instead of a menu......RUN!

[bgill]

That last is supposed to be dessert. My cat up chucks tastier looking stuff than this chef puts out. For what he charges pretentious diners, he's laughing all the way to the bank.

[BenLurkin]

Cuisine for Clinton donors.

[Rebelbase]

Ever had chilled monkey brain?

[Califreak]

The very depths of depravity.

[DUMBGRUNT]

The Freshman

Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick.

The plot revolves around a young New York film student’s entanglement in an illicit business of offering exotic and endangered animals as specialty food items, including his being tasked with delivering a Komodo dragon for this purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freshman_(1990_film)

[Dr. Sivana]

Ever had chilled monkey brain?

No, but a priest I know who was a missionary in Gabon with the Institute of Christ the King was welcomed with a special dinner, and this svelte, tall German forced himself to eat the monkey brain in the skull they presented to him as a delicacy. He had already braced himself and prepared himself for that.

When the main course was served, it was a pile of furless steamed baby monkeys in a pile on a large serving dish. That exceeded his ability to do as the locals do. He could not make himself eat it.