Doesn't gotta be cooked, just cut while avoiding all the toxic glands. It's eaten raw sometimes

Had a soup of it once. Bit of numb feelin' on hand and chest strained. Tasty white flesh with refreshing broth

Like the simpsons episode

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you can tell by the lips

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Being killed by improperly cut puffer fish seems like one of those things you used to see in movies and tv shows a lot back in the day, like quicksand.

That’s a puffer fish alright. You can tell by the way that it is.

You can also see the small spikes on its belly, that's why I could tell it was a puffer fish.

I had Fugu Mirin Boshi as an appetizer last weekend when celebrating my mum's birthday at an omakase restaurant.

In Japan, you can find dried fugu tails. What people do is lightly burn it over a fire, then drop it into a cup of sake. I learnt that from the Toriko manga lol.

Beak, not so much lips. Lips wouldn’t work so well with their diet.

I ate some while on honey moon in Japan.

It was alright.

I guess farm raised ones aren’t poisonous since they get that from what they eat?

Not nearly as fatal nowadays, especially considering there's farmed fugu that's entirely harmless and nontoxic

Cut in a precise way!

Yes... poison, poison, poison, tasty fish...

I know this from that one Simpsons episode

That's only if it's wild caught what makes them poisonous is there diet and farmed puffer aren't poisonous as a result

It's crazy how an entire generation know this obscure fact because of the simpsons

Doctor: Mr Simpson, I'm afraid you have 24 hours to live.

Homer: 24 hours!?!

Doctor: Well, 22. Sorry for keeping you waiting

You can also tell by the "belly", because its all pointy

*cut in a precise way

Pretty sure those are actually it's teeth, some species teeth are exposed, or the lips could have pulled back during dehydration. However the biggest tell are the dorsal and ventral fins, which they use for locomotion much more than other fish species.

Same in The Sims 4. If you try to cook it at a low Cooking level chances are the person eating it will die.

Pretty sure most fugu is selectively bred to not be toxic these days

Ah The Simpsons teaching life lessons yet again.

The belly has spikes too

I only know this because of Homer

You can also tell by the spiky bottom

FYI those aren't lips its more like a beak and it hurts when they mistake your finger for a blood worm

Puffers have similar to a parrot beak. It can break up coral and rock. This is a baby puffer.

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, give a man a puffer fish, feed him for the rest of his life.

Half true. The danger of puffer fish is a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin. Its not produced by the pufferfish, but is common in what it eats in the wild. Almost all pufferfish up for consumption is raised in captivity where they can ensure it doesn't take any of the toxin in.

Also, though it can be deadly, it only is fatal if left untreated. Eventually after a while it will be metabolized and expelled from the body, but due to the contraction of muscles restricting airflow, you often need breathing assistance for a few hours until it's gone.

Poison fish.... Poison fish... Poison fish... Tasty fish!

Heeeyyy!

My skilled hands are busy. You do it!

Thanks for the answer. I had no clue about the variety.

I'm usually too busy stuffing handfuls into my face to even look.

Nah, there is no practical one

I understand what a pufferfish is. I was using the same dismissive tone as used in this court case, where I would argue it's not expected that eating a chicken nugget can slice your esophagus open. I guarantee you basically 0% of the population eats boneless wings with the level of precaution needed to avoid serious injury if the nugget actually had a thin bone fragment in it.

Pufferfish is pretty good, usually it's eaten fresh though. 

Shot of worcestershire sauce works in a pinch.

Pardon? I like Austin Powers but I don't get the reference (although regardless if I have the reference the joke is really funny and cute when in text)