Dicing death: The fish more poisonous than cyanide

Think I'll just stick with cod, tuna, salmon and the like.

Sounds like food to die for, as they say.

You shall have a fishie
On a little dishie
You shall have a fishie
When my boat comes in.

One great granddaughter graduating in Madison.
Hot, looks like rain… we'll be there having a fine time.
Play nice.

As Suzy Q a derivatives trader for JP Morgan looks at her bill after treating a group of 12 to Fugu-sashimi and several bottles of Kame no O sake, she looks at the total as she hears a cry of "oops" from the kitchen and falls face forward into the remains of her cherry blossom mochi.

I gots nothin'....................STONEY, have a wonderful day w/ your great granddaughter, that's lovely........................

Stoney' the lucky one, family values day for him. Meanwhile back at the ranch we will be obsessed with the way those two severed blowfish eyes seem to keep staring at us.....

I'm with lotlot on sticking to the cod, tuna, salmon and the like... I've never been able to travel outside the U.S., but I've already told my husband "if we ever do, you're going to have to help me figure out what to eat..."

I have always been askeered of large chefs wielding fish sticks.
It's a sunny spring day in west Georgia, time to hang out the sign
  Gone Fishing


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541HKD8alfg

Oh the BBC article is enough to jump start my summer diet. Bleh.

How on earth did anyone figure out that it was the organs that were toxic?  .....and, if "it tastes like chicken"  I'd rather forego the chance aspect of dinner and just go ahead and eat chicken. Especially now that the licensing is going to be so relaxed. 

Toxic organs? I went to church today ..... the organ is in dire need of restoration and makes burping and farting noises as well as some very out of tune notes. It's difficult for the congregation to maintain their composure.
If I want something that 'tastes like chicken', I will eat chicken. Got one roasting in my oven on a bed of root vegetables and garlic. Smells great - I'm starving.
I once had to eat a dish that contained fish eyeballs, as it would be considered rude to reject them. Considering I was only 9 years old at the time, I think I was very brave. It was my birthday and our African house staff had volunteered to cook up a feast - Nile perch, steamed plantain, peanut sauce. Great, except for the eyes .... To this day I will not eat a plate of food that has things that look back at me.
Chicken is out of the oven 'resting' - leeks and gravy (not the American sort) to do. See you later.

mmmm...Hazel your chicken dinner sounds delicious.......and you were a very very brave nine year old!  I guess you never toast anyone with the phrase, "Here's lookin' at you!"

Funny, Carol!~ The chicken was great and plenty left over to do something tomorrow and serious chicken soup with garlic bread the day after - not to mention bits to feed Coco the cat. For a living alone with a cat person, a chicken is good value.

as it is where paulos lives, it's a sunny almost-too-hot spring day here...'gone fishin'' seems appropriate for them what fishes...but not for me, with two new books to read.  STONEY, have fun...see y'all later.

Wow, Hazel, you were brave and kind at only 9.  My uncle told me about having to eat lamb's eyes once when he was honoured by a sheik.  He was a grown man at the time and still found it a challange.

If it is possibly poinsonous I'm not hungry, thank you.  I do even peel away the green on a potato.  I'll team up with Lotlot and mbailey on this adventure. 

$120 bucks- Let's see. Today I've had burgers, Peach Daquiris for two, a bottle of SPF 15, a nice Dominican poolside with a little Warren Zevon playing and I shall watch Selleck as Jesse Stone tonight on the tube and still have $50 bucks in the Hip National Bank. One man's poison is...

I must be part of the minority, I have always wanted to try this. Or it just could be that I watch to much Anthony Bourdain.  altho I really don't see a difference between this & eating rattlesnake which is also poisonous.  Congratulations to Stoney's Great-Grandaughter. I know she studied & worked very hard for today's diploma. 

RUSTY...................you hands down win on grossness. I could not, COULD NOT eat some lamb eyeballs.......maybe at the threat of death..................maybe...........a horrible death...........maybe......................

Those eyes.. She's got a Gioconda kinda of dirty look.

Thin slices arranged upon a plate
A costly version of cut bait
If death is on or near the menu
It's high time for a change of venue

I misled: it was our one and only granddaughter and she is great.
It is her birthday tomorrow too.

Fugu sashimi with a possible side dish of toxicity? No thanks. Not even on a bet.

No eyeballs, either. Chicken livers with onions, now there's a delicacy....or even calves' liver and onions, rumaki (chicken liver with a water chesnut wrapped in bacon and grilled), even liver pate on a cracker, but no poison fish.

Cut it thin and arrange it like a flower on a plate....? Who is he kidding? Making it pretty does not make up for its potentially lethal quality. Who ever ate the first one and figured out which parts to remove, you wonder?

How many dead fishermen did it take before they figured it out? Excuse me, but if some food has a history of dropping the eater like a stone, then why keep trying to chomp it down?

On eyes, I pass. 
 
In Florida at a writers' conference once, alligator was on every menu -- with "those who knew" insisting, "Go on, try it.  It tastes like chicken."
 
But HAZEL is right: Just eat chicken.  (I did ultimately taste alligator, and it DID taste sort of like chicken, but not a very good one.  So again, I pass.  ANd order chicken.)

Thanks for the nice graduation expressions and I wish that you had all been there. It was the kind of deal that makes you feel a lot better about the future.

When it comes to SHERLOCK,  the more I see, the more I like it less.

By the way, who invented the graduate's headwear? And why?
That's a rhetorical question. I don't really want to know if you know, what you know or how you know it.

STONEY..........I said when the new Sherlock came out that I found his asexual personna pretty creepy. I did see him in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy & I found him good in his role. I am not a Sherlock fan & he just exudes creepiness....................