Sushi and the Aquarist

[Undawada]

I was searching in Google Groups for info on fish, and came across a Sushi connoisseur.'s group, and some interesting threads related to sushi.

I like sushi and was wondering if anyone else keeps fish and also eats sushi or sushini.

Sometimes I come home with a bento box and watch TV while eating, and I swear the fish glare at me


edit : spelling police

 

[NinjaSmurf]

No type of aquatic life is safe from my fork!



Well, you know, no leeches or stuff like that....

 

[pica_nuttalli]

sushi=delicious
i especially love rolls w/ yellowtail or salmon in them.

 

[rdd1952]

I don't eat sushi but it has nothing to do with morals and fish keeping. I'm not eating anything that hasn't see a fire first. My personal favorite is cold boiled shrimp with good hot cocktail sauce.

 

[parker313]

Seafood of any variety is my favorite! Sushi is no exception - one drawback of being pregnant is no raw fish, but there are several good sushi types that use no fish or cooked stuff, so I've been able to make it

 

[sylvia]

Yep, I love sushi too... and most other seafood as well. Ironic realy.

 

[annka5]

Love sushi and sashimi - lived in Toyko for a couple of years and was EXCELLENT.
But... h'mmmm.. it is wierd watching pet fish whilst eating it.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Yeah i feel guilty from time to time when im making sushi or cooking some salmon in my kitchen where my main tank resides, with the fish watching me, but...sushi tastes so nice !! Either way, sea food and fish are all part of a healthy diet !
Besides, when you think about it, many fish foods contain fish or other sea food ingredients and most fish will happily munch on their dead tank mates, so im sure all my fish think when i make sushi is "damn, i want salmon sushi too!" .

 

[Jen]

I don't eat it, but thats only because im not a fan of seafood. I can't stand the smell of the seaweed that it's wrapped in.

 

[CatLover]

I like some seafood (huge fan of catfish and shrimp.. mmmmm...) but I don't do sushi, or any raw meat for that matter.

Way too many cases of people having worms in their brain due to eating too much raw meat. It's just not worth it.

 

[OohFeeshy]

I really want to try sushi. We are doing multicultural cooking at school, and there is this great sushi cookery book. And it has the cutest designs.... LOL, how ironic would it be if I made one in the shape of a fish...

 

[Undawada]

Way too many cases of people having worms in their brain due to eating too much raw meat. It's just not worth it.

I assume you're talking about [mod-edit-link removed-picture of maggots eating a man's brain] (Squeamish pictures alert!!!!)

If you don't want to click, I will copy any paste for you the part that debunks this as an urban legend :

(there are pictures of a man's head crawling with worms, presumably from eating sushi)

Asking a dozen different medical experts about the photographs shown above produced a dozen different answers -- everything from a skeptical "It's possible" to a flat-out assertion that the pictures had "obviously been faked" (either at the photographic level using a prosthetic device, or at the digital level with image editing software). However, too often people get caught in the trap of assuming that because photographs don't match the explanations accompanying them, the pictures must have been fabricated or manipulated, and one conclusion doesn't necessarily follow from the other.

Although the explanations quoted above are erroneous, these images are in fact real and undoctored, and they are indeed photographs taken of a patient whose brain surface was exposed and crawling with insects. The pictures date from October 2002, and they are photographs of a man in his 70s who was suffering from an unusual form of cancer which had eaten away at the upper portion of his skull and scalp but who had not sought any medical treatment because the condition was not causing him pain.

so basically, those pictures were a result of a form of cancer, not sushi

now I've gone and lost my appetite

 

[Undawada]

To restore the appetite, some wonderful presentations of sushi :

There we go... much better

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Damn those pics about the maggot brain man were totally gross !

But sushi pics on the other hand...mmm....

 

[SirMinion]

It's a bit daft for a fishkeeper to feel guilty about eating tuna or salmon because although they're all fish they are entirely different species.
They're as different as cats and cows which are both mammals and you don't feel guilty about eating a steak in front of your cat do you?