Ugh - live worms in my whole salmon!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish I hadn't read this thread... what you don't know doesn't hurt you. I'll never look at fish the same way.

+1! I was blissfully unaware.

[Anonymous]

The good news is that if you are eating sushi you already have the chopsticks handy...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The good news is that if you are eating sushi you already have the chopsticks handy...

I see what you did there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gross. I'm done with fish now.

Same. Fuck fish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gross. I'm done with fish now.

Don't be. This is highly unusual.

Well apparently it's unusual to SEE them but according to other posters who spoke to fishmongers all fish have the worms. So I'm done with the fish.

[Anonymous]

I do not believe that all fish fillets are infested with worms. And since when is a dude at Whole Foods a "fish monger"?

[Anonymous]

Sushi is mostly free from parasites. It's very rare. The fish are inspected for parasites before being purchased for use by sushi chefs. They are then flash frozen for seven minutes to kill anything that might be present that was missed on inspection.

If you ask for sashimi grade fish, you'll avoid this problem. You can also avoid the problem by staying away from salmon which is a dirty fish, prone to worms. Tuna is a cleaner fish. It's save. Atlantic caught fish are less likely to have worms than Pacific caught fish. (Fewer marine mammals = cleaner fish) You can eat farm raised fish, which is less likely to be infected than wild caught fish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sushi is mostly free from parasites. It's very rare. The fish are inspected for parasites before being purchased for use by sushi chefs. They are then flash frozen for seven minutes to kill anything that might be present that was missed on inspection.

If you ask for sashimi grade fish, you'll avoid this problem. You can also avoid the problem by staying away from salmon which is a dirty fish, prone to worms. Tuna is a cleaner fish. It's save. Atlantic caught fish are less likely to have worms than Pacific caught fish. (Fewer marine mammals = cleaner fish) You can eat farm raised fish, which is less likely to be infected than wild caught fish.

Tuna is high in mercury. You can't win. Animals have parasites, too. Just cook everything well and go to reputable sushi restaurants for your occasional raw fish fix.

[Anonymous]

Open your eyes, people:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29133/what-defects-fda-allows-11-types-food

[Anonymous]

I ate salmon two nights ago. Oh dear god.

[Anonymous]

I worked for a gourmet frozen novelty manufacturer for several years and the operations manager told me that there are always insects ground up with the frozen fruit, along with other organic material like leaves and pits. You can't get everything out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The good news is that if you are eating sushi you already have the chopsticks handy...

I see what you did there.

::spit-take::

[Anonymous]

OK. No more fish for me. I'd never heard of worms in fish, but this thread plus a quick google search has been... educational.

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/05/11/learning-about-cod-worm-the-hard-way/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK. No more fish for me. I'd never heard of worms in fish, but this thread plus a quick google search has been... educational.

http://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/05/11/learning-about-cod-worm-the-hard-way/

"I examined it more closely. I wasn’t sure. And then it moved. But it didn’t just move. It waved its head, or its butt—it could have been either—in a tsk-tsk fashion, or as if it was slowly waving a flashlight. I cringed."

[Anonymous]

The good news is that if you are eating sushi you already have the chopsticks handy...

You win DCUM this weekend.