Sounds kind of fishy, to me. I'll bet they're doing it just for the halibut.

This story proves what we've known for years: if a man smells something fishy he'll want to get a little prick into it.

You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.

///Thank you, I'll be here all week, try the veal.

Did anyone else thing that story was going to be a LOT dirtier from that headline?

/i did

DslainteC: This story proves what we've known for years: if a man smells something fishy he'll want to get a little prick into it.

Okay. Thread over. Everyone can go home now.

/You owe my employer a new keyboard, by the way.

The entire Japanese fishing fleet went on strike over fuel prices... 'Cause nothing shows foreign oil markets you mean business like starving your populace.

I've been doing that to tuna for years. I use something called a FORK.

I showed up for a sushi snob thread. Boy, was I waaaaaay off.

cook it in butter and wrap it with bacon. it'll taste MUCH better.

Try it soon if you've never had it. shiat be tasty.

/I'm trying, Occam's Chainsaw.

baercat: cook it in butter and wrap it with bacon. it'll taste MUCH better.

Attention: Do NOT feed the trolls.

japaknees make me lol

Why not? We chain cows up for tasty veal. Its a matter of time until we get gorge-fed tuna.

dj42: Try it soon if you've never had it. shiat be tasty.

/I'm trying, Occam's Chainsaw.

Mmmmmm. If you try the above and salmon sashimi and don't immediately fall in love, you should see a doctor. There's a good chance you have a genetic disease called My Palate Sucks.

/A valiant effort.
//Repping my boy Jay @ Toyo Sushi, Rock Hill, SC.
///Go. Get a Rock Hill roll. It'll change your life.

The Japanese have a real knack for jabbing sharp, metallic objects into marine life.

FTFA: The company in Osaka that patented the technique claimed that calm tuna thrashed about less in their death throes.

Sooo, now I know why the wife keeps bringing up acupuncture.

/Here honey, try this shake I made for you; I'm not hungry.

I love sushi as much as the next guy (maybe more) but this is kind of silly. I don't understand why the insertion point is still a secret either. That sounds a little dirty if you ask me.

/mmmm, dirty fish

They make tasty (Kobe) beef feeding their bovines sour mash and massaging the steers daily, so maybe acupuncture tuna will be good.

forstmeister: I love sushi as much as the next guy (maybe more) but this is kind of silly. I don't understand why the insertion point is still a secret either. That sounds a little dirty if you ask me.

/mmmm, dirty fish

So, I take it you don't have any interest in a Kobe Beef steak either? The cows are hand massaged.

I love me some Japanese.

The Japanese are so dedicated to their food.

What if they mixed mayonnaise with the tuna?

Will fish succumb to the placebo effect of "I'm not religious, I'm spiritual" pseudoscience BS?

No.

The entire Japanese fishing fleet also went on strike last week over fuel prices.

Expecting tuna prices to spike here soon because of oil prices.

///Go. Get a Rock Hill roll. It'll change your life.

Did anyone else read that as "Get a Rick Roll"?

...the sushiathat's never gonna give you up.

/never gonna let you down
//never gonna run around, and desert you

dj42: forstmeister: I love sushi as much as the next guy (maybe more) but this is kind of silly. I don't understand why the insertion point is still a secret either. That sounds a little dirty if you ask me.

/mmmm, dirty fish

So, I take it you don't have any interest in a Kobe Beef steak either? The cows are hand massaged.

I don't get the hype with Kobe, Hereford is just as good and quite a bit cheaper.

sushiathat's

...damn... does this count as getting filteroll'd? :P

/mmmm, filter roll

DNRTFA but is this one of those "only in Japan" kinda things.

In the States we just call that fishing.

Feed mayonnaise to tuna fish.

/this is Chuck to remind Bill to shut up
//to shut up

Occam's Chainsaw: dj42: Try it soon if you've never had it. shiat be tasty.

/I'm trying, Occam's Chainsaw.

Mmmmmm. If you try the above and salmon sashimi and don't immediately fall in love, you should see a doctor. There's a good chance you have a genetic disease called My Palate Sucks.

/A valiant effort.
//Repping my boy Jay @ Toyo Sushi, Rock Hill, SC.
///Go. Get a Rock Hill roll. It'll change your life.

i tried tuna tataki recently and i LOVED it. melts in your mouth. i'll have to get that salmon sashimi for lunch today to try it. mmmm.... salmon...

/loves sushi
//so does my 7-year-old son

My parents take one of their Beagles to an acupuncturist to help with a back problem.

I'd make more fun of them if it wasn't working so well.

"Oh, the tunanity!"

I wasn't aware you could improve on good tuna sushi.

ZOMC!

/thread floundering

Did the Stupid tag play hooky today?

A hook through the mouth is NOT acupuncture.

we_hates

Call Starkist.

"Performing accupuncture to the tuna" is nothing new in Japan. (how do you think there got to be so many Japanese people)

/But don't say it to any Japanese men though. They find it insulting... and true.

//Big American Penis

Maybe they should just hold off on the whole "fishing them into extinction" thing.

Acupuncture doesn't really work on people, why should it work on Tuna?

/Really, there is no credible *scientific* study confirming positive effects of acupuncture beyone the success of placebo.
//Anecdotal evidence is not scientific
///The bible doesn't talk about acupuncture, so it can't be real.

Tried acupuncture after hearing people rave about it. Didn't do a damn thing. Meh.

Inserting a long, thin metal tool to calm them so they don't thrash around as much? Something's ringing a bell... and you say they're refusing to reveal where they're inserting said needles?

Acupuncture my ass. How much do you want to bet that what they're actually doing is simply the piscene equivalent of transorbital lobotomies? Sever a certain few nerve strands, and the fish get docile.

Either way, this is unlikely to go far, save maybe for a fad. If the Japanese fishing industry is already having trouble competing, as the article says, is adding a painstaking (and therefore expensive) step really what they need?

The Kobe thing I can see. Lots of inactivity combined with feeding beer, yeah, I can see that adding lots of intramuscular fat. The massage thing, well, it can't hurt. Probably calms down the cows so they don't move as much.

But acupuncture on a fish? That's a big stretch. I wouldn't think that their nerve systems are as developed as a human nerve system.

And acupuncture in a human is a very iffy thing. There really isn't any scientific evidence that it does much of anything. There isn't much evidence that it isn't a placebo effect. The electrical kind may actually do something, but regular acupuncture is considered bunk by a fairly large number of doctors.