Man Dies After Fish Sauce Rescue

Reuters ^ | October 22, 2002

[dfwgator]

What a stinky way to go.

[chesty_puller]

OH the smell of nuic mom in the morning.

[ko_kyi]

My wife is Burmese, eats that stuff all the time. I consider it birth control, because I have to leave the room.

Picture a huge vat of anchovy paste with water mixed in and allowed to become even more rancid.

Hell of a way to go.

[Chemist_Geek]

Confined-space-rescue and HAZMAT bump...

Heee hee hee, this is one of the oddest hazzardous materials I've ever heard of. Expect the State of California and OSHA to begin regulating fish sauce producers as soon as they hear about this... ;-)

[jeremiah]

Do you think they dumped the batch, or called it the best batch ever?

[Minnesoootan]

Soilent Green/Fish sauce.....but,I'm sure they promptly discarded that tank of sauce....

[Chemist_Geek]

hazardous, as well as hazzardous, that is...

[Cogadh na Sith]

"When they came, the man (who died) was already in critical condition."

They could have saved him if they hadn't grilled him and served him over rice.

[My back yard]

LOL

[B-Chan]

Come on, folks. Someone died here. Let's not make the world any more callous than it is already.

[sparkomatic]

Yeh, you think someone would've fished him out in time. Oh Cod, this is terrible. But halibut if there's anything we can do about it.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Live fast, die young, and leave a spicy corpse.

[arthurus]

.but,I'm sure they promptly discarded that tank of sauce....

Whatever for? There is a final step in commercial production- it is passed through a strainer to remove excess laborers or at least the undisolved portions.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Fish out any workers floundering around in the sauce, or else customers will carp.

[arthurus]

Fish sauce is ferociously pungent and commonly used in southeast Asia to spice up dishes.

It is the salt source in Vietnamese (and other) cookery as soy sauce is in Chinese food. Americans tend to use salt from shakers. I like the nuoc mam though my wife prefers to eat in another room and she turns on the fans.

[Oberon]

Come on, folks. Someone died here. Let's not make the world any more callous than it is already.

You're right... but the guy who died certainly doesn't care. Let's hope he's having a good laugh about it in heaven.

[dts32041]

So that was the secret ingredient, just didn't pull him out fast enough.

OH the smell of nuic mom in the morning.

Ranks right up there with winter Kimchee (sp).

[Pilsner]

I love fish sauce, but I don't want to smell it being made.

As a way to go this ranks well below falling in the beer vat like Clancey.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

HMB material...