Brief Comment: "3' long swordfish parasites by The Seafood Advisor
JohnW
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> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:54:06 -0700, Geoff Waters <grw...@hotmail.com>
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>>In "Kitchen Confidential," Tony Bourdain says of swordfish, that his
>>food purveyor won't eat it in restaurants because he has "seen a few
>>too many of those three-foot-long parasitic worms that riddle the
>>fish's flesh. You see a few of those babies -- and we all do -- and
>>you won't be tucking into swordfish any time soon."
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> Evan in Orlando ev...@dobkin.net wrote:
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> There's the winner for where I saw it.
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> 1. A 3 foot long parasite would be a record for the scientific
> community. As far as I know from my experience plus an extensive
> search on scientific journals, there is no reference on a three-foot
> long parasite from ANY salt water fishes. If I saw a scientific or a
> medical journal with pictures and detailed description, I will be
> convinced.
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> 2. To a non-biologist and/or an untrained eye, a lot of nerve endings
> plus other internal structures of fishes "riddling the fishes' flesh"
> are deemed as a parasites. eg. differently colored muscle fibers,
> fascia, tendons, emptied out blood vessels, nerves (dorsal spinal
> nerves, glossopharyngeal & vagus nerves, ventral spinal nerves, pelvic
> muscle nerves, etc), veins (gonadal, caudal cardinal, etc); pyloric
> caeca (fishes also have something analogous to a bird's gizzard with
> complex "thin tubes" coming out of it), mesenteries, esophagus, aorta,
> intestines, underdeveloped testes (they look like thin strands), etc.
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Not to mention the fact that Anthony Bourdain wouldnt know the truth if
it smacked him in his self-righteous, egotistical face. He's a lousy,
sloppy cook who managed to get a show on FoodTV for the same reason Jamie
Oliver did. HEY A NEW LOOK! in Tony's case: LOOK A CRACKHEAD THAT CAN
BOIL WATER! ROLL CAMERAS!
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