On Sep 8, 7:04*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 09:59:55 -0700 (PDT), Duwop wrote:
> > On Sep 8, 9:44*am, "Nunya Bidnits" <nunyabidn...@eternal-
> > september.invalid> wrote:
>
> >> That's disgusting! How did it ever come to pass that this fish was used for
> >> food at all, and actually sold at market?
>
> > By someone with a good (warped?) sense of humor maybe?
>
> Hey, this is gourmet shit!

So THAT'S what you call your leakage?

>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/10/dining/eating-well-a-fish-puts-chef...>
>
Great article!

"This is the same fish that has been banned in Japan since 1977
because the Japanese Government believes it is toxic. In this country,
enough people complained about escolar's purgative effect for the Food
and Drug Administration to issue an import bulletin in the early
1990's that recommended not selling the fish, which is found in the
Gulf of Mexico, the South Pacific and tropical waters around the
world. Early last year, the alert was canceled because the agency,
unlike the Japanese Government, decided escolar was not toxic.

The fish had virtually disappeared from markets and menus, but now
it's back. And so are the complaints."