[cstaylor]

Morons... my aunt and uncle run a restaurant in Kyoto (where they serve fugu), and they both have licenses to prepare that stuff. Sounds like these bozos tried to go it alone...

[Taro Toporific]

[I can't help thinking of the classic Simpson's episode.

D'oh! Given a choice of fugu tainted with formaldehyde and fugo tainted with pultonium, I'd choose pultonium---it's that bad, sheesh.

Winter delicacy blowfish served up despite swim in formalin vatDec 8, 2003, The Asahi Shimbun
NAGASAKI-The fugu (blowfish) sashimi looked delicious. The pearly white flesh, sliced paper thin, had no fishy smell. The morsels from Nagasaki had the right texture and tasted delicious.
There was only one thing wrong. The fish had been disinfected with formalin, a watered down solution containing formaldehyde.
News broke in April that fugu farms in Nagasaki Prefecture had been using formalin to rid blowfish of parasites. The prefectural government and consumer organizations urged that formalin-treated fish be destroyed, while fugu farmers claimed their fish were safe.
To destroy or not to destroy-that was the argument.

[kurohinge1]

A Global Demise of a different kind, from MDN ...

Poisonous fish dinner leaves 2 in coma

KOBE -- An elderly man and a woman fell into a coma after eating a toxic globefish he caught off the sea of Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture ...

... The woman first began showing symptoms of poisoning -- numbness in the mouth, arms and legs -- about 20 minutes after eating it. The man rushed her to a local hospital where he also began feeling numb. Both of them were transferred by ambulance to separate hospitals for treatment where they fell unconscious ...

I think the police haven't interviewed the right fish. I smell a Fugu behind this !

[Molokidan]

Damn..that's probably the only thing I won't try here in Japan. I mean, what is so good about it anyway? Then again, this is Nihon...always take it to the next extreme!!! Next thing you know, Russian Sex Roulette!!

[Caustic Saint]

Then again, this is Nihon...always take it to the next extreme!!! Next thing you know, Russian Sex Roulette!!

I thought that was already the order of the day in some parts of Tokyo?

[Molokidan]

Then again, this is Nihon...always take it to the next extreme!!! Next thing you know, Russian Sex Roulette!!

I thought that was already the order of the day in some parts of Tokyo?

(I was being sarcastic..)

[mercutio]

Then again, this is Nihon...always take it to the next extreme!!! Next thing you know, Russian Sex Roulette!!

I thought that was already the order of the day in some parts of Tokyo?

yeah... its called Roppongi