10-year-old girl in Japan becomes youngest person certified to prepare poisonous pufferfish — a delicacy that can be deadly
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A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare "fugu" pufferfish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed.
Fifth grader Karin Tabira passed a test this summer that means she is now certified to slice and gut the fish for consumption.
She recently used her new skills to serve a platter of paper-thin slices of fugu sashimi to the governor of southern Kumamoto region where she lives.
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They've discovered that farmed puffers don't have toxic organs. The poison comes from the food they naturally ingest, so farming them on a special diet makes them safe.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/new-improved-fugu-now-without-poison-81301903/
Where's the fun in that