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Post by traceroute66 »

the_af wrote: post #147
traceroute66 wrote: post #111

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> We hope so! Flash freezing kills parasites It depends where you are. If you are in a Western country, then yes, "sashimi grade fish" equals "frozen". If you are in Japan, then no. Its all to do with the understanding of fish and its handling. In the West its all commoditised, quantity over quality. In Japan, they have a deeply rooted fish culture, a focus on quality and are obsessive over food hygiene. So in Japan…

> Personally, having visited Japan a number of times, I will not eat sushi or sashimi outside of Japan any more. Most of us cannot travel to Japan every time we want to eat sushi, so that's simply not practical.

> Most of us cannot travel to Japan every time we want to eat sushi, so that's simply not practical.

FFS !

Did I ever say I travelled, or that anyone should travel to Japan every time ?

No.

Incase you had not seen, Japanese cuisine goes beyond sushi and sashimi.

The quality of sushi and sahimi in the West is simply so poor compared to Japan I won't waste my money. That is what I am saying.

I simply said I do not eat sushi and sashimi. I can fill my Japanese desires with other culinary aspects and save myself for as and when I might visit Japan.

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Post by technothrasher »

traceroute66 wrote: post #113
Stratoscope wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photographers have a saying: The best camera is the one you have with you. I have a really nice camera with some excellent lenses, but my recent photos that I'm most proud of and enjoy the most were taken with my Galaxy Note 8, a several-year-old smartphone. Of course the kind of fresh fish you're talking about is far superior to the Costco bag of sockeye salmon I have in the freezer. But sometimes, it's getting near…

> American cheese on fish is gross American cheese is gross full stop. ;-) As is American chocolate.

> As is American chocolate.

You've been eating the wrong American chocolate. Hershey's isn't the end all and be all. There are plenty of good chocolate makers and even more good chocolatiers in the US, you just need to explore a bit. L.A. Burdick in New Hampshire, for example, makes really great chocolates, and has a nice wide range of single source bars made with beans from plantations all over the world.

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Post by cs702 »

What a fantastic find of an article!

It's not every day that I get to read about a microbe so deadly that a small jar would be enough to kill all of humanity, so difficult to weaponize that no nation or group has ever been able to build weapons with it, so important to our modern food system that it has altered the taste of almost every packaged food we eat, and so widely used for cosmetic facial procedures that everyone everywhere knows its commercial name (Botox).

The title doesn't do justice to the article.

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Post by soneca »

guerrilla wrote: post #154

This was a surprisingly fun read with some really funny points... > with the only side effects being an inability to express emotion using your face > The entire global face paralysing industry

I laughed at this one:

” If any of them were surprised at this seeming paradox, they certainly didn’t show it.”

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Post by soneca »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #73
Stratoscope wrote: post #35

Pop quiz! Do you ever buy frozen vacuum-sealed fish? The kind where each piece is sealed in its own plastic pouch? It is convenient and delicious. To me it can taste fresher than some "fresh" fish. One reason is that the sealed pouch keeps oxygen out. Have you wondered why it says "remove all packaging before defrosting"? And ignored that advice like I did for many years? After all, the fish seems to defrost just fin…

Any people from developing countries reading this thread? What are your thoughts when you hear Westerners talking about the danger of leaving a meat out of the fridge for a couple of hours and stuff like that?

No thoughts about the fish, but I was recently very surprised to learn that some people exclude my country, Brazil, from “western” culture. Like you did opposing “developing” and “westerners”.

Aside from geographical position, I certainly feel closer in culture to North America and Europe than to Middle-East or East-Asia cultures.

Every time I hear a statement with ”in the western culture…” I always identify myself with it.

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Post by ddek »

cs702 wrote: post #153

What a fantastic find of an article! It's not every day that I get to read about a microbe so deadly that a small jar would be enough to kill all of humanity , so difficult to weaponize that no nation or group has ever been able to build weapons with it, so important to our modern food system that it has altered the taste of almost every packaged food we eat, and so widely used for cosmetic facial procedures that eve…

> Doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo made a few attempts to deploy it at US military bases in the 1980s, but were so shambolically unsuccessful that their attacks went unnoticed by authorities.

Is a wonderful sentence.

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Post by MrDresden »

koheripbal wrote: post #130
traceroute66 wrote: post #94

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> Do you ever buy frozen vacuum-sealed fish? The kind where each piece is sealed in its own plastic pouch? It is convenient and delicious. To me it can taste fresher than some "fresh" fish. Eeew. No. Call me old-fashioned but I believe in this thing called seasonality. I only buy fish that is in season, not farmed, and that is genuinely fresh from reputable suppliers, not supermarket "fresh". Nice clear bright eyes,…

Many of those frozen like that were flash frozen on the boat and are fresher than even what you buy at the fish market direct from the boats that landed that night.

It really does depend on your location. Here in Iceland I can get fresh fish that was caught the same day in my local fish store (mind you not all their fish is caught that day, but most if not all inside 2).

Though with the globalized world we live in, I was even able to get fish from Iceland no older than 2 days in Edmonton Canada when I lived there some years ago.

edit; I'll add that there is a massive texture difference in white fish depending on if it has ever been frozen. Flaky fresh never frozen cod becomes like chewing gum after having been frozen.

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Post by newsbinator »

default-kramer wrote: post #40

> Karl Friedrich Meyer [...] is a largely unheralded hero of global public health. Many consider him the twentieth century’s Pasteur, and his work doubtless saved millions of lives. Unheralded indeed. His Wikipedia entry isn't very well-sourced, but assuming it's mostly accurate this guy could be a great subject for a motivated long-form journalist willing to do a bit of research. At the very least I'd want to read i…

I'd want to read about his path to discovery and challenges while changing the status quo for sure.

I wouldn't want to read about his grandfather's antique clock or his childhood pets. Long-form journalism in 2021 isn't for me.

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