Comments on: Try anything once? http://microbelog.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/try-anything-once/ blogging the latest developments in microbiology Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:33:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Janne http://microbelog.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/try-anything-once/#comment-99 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:06:33 +0000 http://microbelog.wordpress.com/?p=524#comment-99 As a note, deaths are basically unheard of for fugu prepared by a licenced cook. The very few deaths that do occur are due to dense people who catch a fugu and thinks they know how to prepare it just by following pictures in a book, advice from their cousin who once worked as waiter in a fugu restaurant or something like that. When you consider that it’s not a rare treat around here — fugu is sold in every fishmonger and with fugu restaurants in most neighbourhoods — the real risk is probably smaller than for eating buffet food or Korean barbecue.

The most dangerous food in Japan? Mochi, small blocks of sticky rice cakes. It’s good, but really very sticky, and every year you have old people especially choking on the mochi in their soup. of course, chewy rice doesn’t have the dramatic flair of deadly poisonous fish so mochi gets off scot free while fugu gets the bum rap.

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