[Lancer409]

I did a search on sushi/sashimi worms and parasites and got bupkiss so here you go. Hope I dont get the timeline.




real/fake? thoughts? I'm a sushi person myself and I find this very disturbing...

I dont know how it would get there, considering your stomach would kill off most parasites and digest them and the eggs, how would eggs find their way into the head/skull... unless parasites traveled up there and laid the eggs afterwards... i dunno

[Peter]

no image :/

[entrox]

Urban legend. See here.

[IceEnclosure]

first of all, that's disgusting.

second of all, HTF do they get in your brain?

thirdly.. I don't eat raw fish. ha!

[Lancer409]

thank goodness... was wondering why a japanese man would have blondish hair .. but eh ... one never knows .. until he brings it onto macnn!

[Xeo]

If sushi caused brain infestations, you'd surely have a few more cases reported in Japan.

[Lancer409]

Originally posted by Xeo:
If sushi caused brain infestations, you'd surely have a few more cases reported in Japan.

considering how we dont even hear about the poor in other countries (a child dies every 15 seconds in indonesia?!? (forgot the exact country) because of unsanitary water?!?). This is BEFORE the tsunami, a pre-existing condition. We all pour money into the region because of the tsunami, but the number of people who die from unsanitary water (before the tsunami - not a result of the tsunami) far exceeds the tsunami death tolls. I figured it might just be because of our lack of foreign coverage.

I like sushi/sashimi but often cant afford it. I always made that argument (it's safe - tons of japanese people eat it and are fine) but I dunno ... guess I'm gullible

[wataru]

Japan is not a third-world country. If sushi was significantly unsafe, you would have heard about it.

That said, I'd be more likely to believe it if you were talking about eating sushi in somewhere like the American Midwest, where fresh fish (the kinds used in sushi, anyway) is hard to come by, and sushi chefs aren't licensed like they are in Japan. Hell, they aren't even Japanese 99% of the time--they're usually Mexican immigrants.

[Lancer409]

Originally posted by wataru:
Japan is not a third-world country. If sushi was significantly unsafe, you would have heard about it.

That said, I'd be more likely to believe it if you were talking about eating sushi in somewhere like the American Midwest, where fresh fish (the kinds used in sushi, anyway) is hard to come by, and sushi chefs aren't licensed like they are in Japan. Hell, they aren't even Japanese 99% of the time--they're usually Mexican immigrants.

never meant to imply japan being a "third world country" or even remotely close. Comparing american and japanese toilets .. I dont think anyone can come to that conclusion!

just pointing out how our news doesnt cover foreign stories

[Scifience]

Originally posted by Lancer409:
never meant to imply japan being a "third world country" or even remotely close. Comparing american and japanese toilets .. I dont think anyone can come to that conclusion!

Would you be referring to the pit toilets or the fancy "you could launch a rocket" with this kind?

[Lancer409]

Originally posted by Scifience:
Would you be referring to the pit toilets or the fancy "you could launch a rocket" with this kind?

the rolls royce version with a seat warmer, sound soother built in, and includes a *ahem* water fountain ... and air dryer.. lol


didnt know japan had pit toilets. we those in china still .. *ugh* ... they better upgrade fast .. before the olympics .. or the press will have a field day..

[MaxPower]

What's even grosser is the actual explanation on Snopes.com's brain maggot page.

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. The man was brought to the trauma center at Stanford University Hospital (where the photographs shown here were taken) by San Mateo County paramedics who had been summoned to the scene after the man was involved in a minor automobile accident and who found him in his car in the condition pictured.

I think I threw up in my mouth a little

[Xeo]

Originally posted by Lancer409:
didnt know japan had pit toilets. we those in china still .. *ugh* ... they better upgrade fast .. before the olympics .. or the press will have a field day..

Most public toilets are the "pit" ones. I'm open to new cultures but dammit let me sit while I do my business.

[DeathMan]

That is disgusting. I have been traumatized.

[wataru]

Originally posted by Xeo:
Most public toilets are the "pit" ones. I'm open to new cultures but dammit let me sit while I do my business.

Out in the boonies, maybe. But in a decent-sized city, you should be able to find a regular "sitting" toilet without any difficulty.

[olePigeon]

Sushi/Sashimi has a higher risk of attracting bacteria, but that's about it. If it's fresh and clean, there shouldn't be much of a problem.

I don't care for Sushi, but my brother loves it. He's never gotten an "infestation," much less even sick, from eating Sushi.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by wataru:
Out in the boonies, maybe. But in a decent-sized city, you should be able to find a regular "sitting" toilet without any difficulty.

Complete with voice interaction and video camera.

[MacNStein]

Damn photos got me assaulted. I showed the Snopes images to Kim and she started making gagging noises and then hit me. I warned her that she didn't want to see them, but noooo...

*rubs sore arm*

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by wataru:
Japan is not a third-world country. If sushi was significantly unsafe, you would have heard about it.

That said, I'd be more likely to believe it if you were talking about eating sushi in somewhere like the American Midwest, where fresh fish (the kinds used in sushi, anyway) is hard to come by, and sushi chefs aren't licensed like they are in Japan. Hell, they aren't even Japanese 99% of the time--they're usually Mexican immigrants.

Ditto for Japan. In Japan, there are really strict rules about food expiration dates. The homeless live often off expired food, and personally, I only had something spoil before expiration date once.

BTW, the photo doesn't load here.

[Judge_Fire]

Someone once told me that 'gari', the pickled ginger that accompanies raw fish dishes, isn't there only because of its palate refreshing nature, but because ginger is a mild disinfectant.

The story went on to claim that as sushi became popular overseas, many people found gari too weird and missed out on the debugging.

J

[OreoCookie]

Originally posted by Judge_Fire:
Someone once told me that 'gari', the pickled ginger that accompanies raw fish dishes, isn't there only because of its palate refreshing nature, but because ginger is a mild disinfectant.

The story went on to claim that as sushi became popular overseas, many people found gari too weird and missed out on the debugging.

J

AFAIK you eat it to neutralize the taste, so you can appreciate each kind of sushi even more. Mmmmmmh. Time to hit the next Japanese restaurant. washoku power!!

[tooki]

Sushi fish (especially in the U.S.) is all frozen first anyway, which kills most parasites. That said, most ocean fish doesn't have parasites anyway. (Things like worms are much more prevalent in freshwater fish, which is one reason why those are eaten raw much less often.)

Ceviche, the Latin American dish of raw seafood marinated in lime juice, is safe because the acid of the lime juice kills most everything. (The acid also denatures -- cooks -- the protein in the fish similarly to how heat does.)

tooki

[CMYKid]

Originally posted by MaxPower:
What's even grosser is the actual explanation on Snopes.com's brain maggot page.



I think I threw up in my mouth a little

they never updated what I found to be one of the more disturbing ebtries, the one about the african missionary or variation who got a little itching in the chestal region and ended up with larvae growing in her breast...accompanied by a photoshopped but still disturbing picture... anyway, i sent them a white paper and accompanying clinical video of the removal by tweezers of exactly that from a couple people in Ghana who'd made the mistake of washing their blouses in the river and leaving them to dry on rocks with eggs deposited on them....never appeared as an addendum tho, so much for snopes keeping up to date...

[Xeo]

Originally posted by wataru:
Out in the boonies, maybe. But in a decent-sized city, you should be able to find a regular "sitting" toilet without any difficulty.

Well, Osaka doesn't strike me as the boonies, but ok. I was there for a month and most public places had the squatters. Maybe I was just unlucky in my choices. I guess I'm thinking mostly the subways and train stations. That was the "public place" I found myself most often.

Where I am now, I actually don't know. I haven't had to try yet.

Originally posted by Judge_Fire:
Someone once told me that 'gari', the pickled ginger that accompanies raw fish dishes, isn't there only because of its palate refreshing nature, but because ginger is a mild disinfectant.

I heard it was the wasabi. But I really don't know, and I don't remember the source of that info, anyway. I probably read it here...

[edit] I guess I heard correctly. From here.

Wasabi not only kills many bacteria's associated with fish but also kills some forms of E-coli and Staphylococcus.