On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > Deepa Mohan [24/11/10 08:32 +0530]:
>> friends tell me that I should eat meat just before I die so I won't die of >> regret for abstaining all these years :) >> Eat fugu, it would probably ensure that you ARE eating meat just before >> you die. You won't die of regret, just of fugu! > You can eat fugu if its prepared correctly - and if you dont mind paying > most of a month's salary for a meal. Just dont take the eyes, internal > organs (livers) etc or you end up like mitsuguro bando san - kabuki actor, > japanese "national treasure" etc. I've had fugu a couple times. It's not that dangerous, and it's not that expensive. *Some* people deliberately eat the most poisonous parts for various reasons (macho, thrill from risk, to get high) and those are the ones that end up dead. There is a psychoactive component to fugu IMO, but as a friend of mine likes to say "an LD50 of anything is psychedelic." (He was talking about Jimson Weed, but the principle applies.) -- Charles
