Glow on the dark sushi
Stomach churning footage shows the moment a family took sushi home for dinner – only to find the food was glowing fluorescent blue on the car’s front seat. Arun Yolpaiboon, 58 and her son Natthanai Kanchanawasa, 21, unpacking three boxes of raw fish and rice on Tuesday, before getting the shock of their lives. The video then shows Kanchanawasa holding up one of the shrimps, which he had boiled, revealing how blue it had become. He later ate one. He has since said that since trying the toxic snack, he has not suffered any illness, but the glowing meal still frightened the family. He said: ‘It was strange to see a glowing shrimp like this since we like to eat the sushi regularly. We could have eaten it without realizing had it not changed color.
An associate professor of biology explained that the shrimp could have been glowing as it had not been stored at a low enough temperature, which allowed it to be contaminated with fluorescent bacteria. He said: ‘Normally, the seafood can be contaminated with fluorescent bacteria but they are eradicated by heat in the cooking process. ‘But in sushi the seafoods are mostly uncooked so they should be kept in very low temperatures to limit the bacteria numbers. ‘I believe the shrimp on the sushi might not have been kept under a sufficiently low temperature which caused the amount of bacteria to increase.’ The professor added that the consumer should not eat any pieces of glowing sushi due to the potential infection. He said: ‘There are various possible bacteria on the shrimp and it needs to be examined before it is safe to consume otherwise the consumer might suffer from food poisoning.’ Arun, a businesswoman, said she would be more careful choosing the sushi from now on. She added: ‘This is a surprise lesson for me and it will affect my decision next time when I’m choosing what food to buy.
Glow-in-the-dark sushi is already here. The people at the Center for Genomic Gastronomy have put together a series of instruction videos on the former and an exhibit at the latter highlighting the possibility of using transgenic bioluminescent fish to make edible, glow-in-the-dark sushi, all under the aegis of “Glowing Sushi.” (“Transgenic” refers to a process by which a gene is taken from one organism — like a glow-in-the-dark bacteria or jellyfish — and inserted into another.) Their food doesn’t look as delicious does look pretty darn futuristic and cool. Part of the purpose of the Glowing Sushi project is to highlight the possibilities of food made from genetically modified organisms. The Glowing Sushi chefs do freeze the GloFish, though, to kill any parasites or pathogens, before eating the sushi.
Sushi Snickers
Did you hear about the new lawyer themed sushi restaurant that opened up the other day?
It’s called Sosumi.
My mom is a Sunni, my dad is a Shia.
I’m sushi.
What did the sushi say to the bee?
WASABI?
My friend bought a sushi lamp for his room, it’s too bright, how does he make it dim some?
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