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> should you also avoid sushi and seafood restaurants because you know that cheap fish can be just as enjoyable Uh, yeah. Sure. I'll just head to my local groc

> should you also avoid sushi and seafood restaurants because you know that cheap fish can be just as enjoyable Uh, yeah. Sure. I'll just head to my local grocer and grab whatever cheap salmon they've got sitting out, take it home, and make nigiri out of it. You'll be paying my medical bills, right?

kryten 13y ago
Hell I used to eat fish I yanked out of the dirty stink hole that was the river Thames in London when I was a kid in the 1980's. Still here three decades later. Not everything is going to kill you.
- nknighthb 13y ago
  Raw? Edit: Even if so, I don't really care. Your attitude is the same one people use to justify all sorts of uselessly stupid things right up until it hurts them or someone they love, then suddenly they're not so tough.
- splat 13y ago
  I agree with your point, but have to note that this is perhaps the most literal example of survivor's bias I have ever seen.
  - kryten 13y ago
    Or is it just how the majority of the planet live other than yourself? I've been around a bit and the whole extreme food hygiene thing is pretty much irrelevant in most of the world. This is not "survivor bias". That's an arrogant term used to deride people. For reference, I also tend to eat mushrooms and plants I find (I know what I'm doing in that department).
ethomson 13y ago
I take your point, but I think you're drastically overestimating the quality of the sushi place. If you grab whatever cheap salmon is frozen then you'll likely be eating the same salmon that's used at a restaurant. (Even if you're on a coast, your salmon will be frozen for at least 24 hours before being served raw to kill those nasty parasites.) Your local grocer's counter is a disappointment since they've basically taken all of the lovely seafood that was individually quick-frozen at the source and thawed it out for god knows how long. That shrimp sitting behind plexiglass stinking the place up? It came to them in a bag frozen just like the bag sitting in the freezer case just to the left. It will be cheaper and higher quality if you buy the bag of individually quick-frozen (IQF) shrimp. If you live on a coast and go to a local fish monger then you can get better results. But even your fancy grocers are thawing pre-frozen shrimp unnecessarily.

kryten 13y ago

Hell I used to eat fish I yanked out of the dirty stink hole that was the river Thames in London when I was a kid in the 1980's. Still here three decades later. Not everything is going to kill you.

nknighthb 13y ago
Raw? Edit: Even if so, I don't really care. Your attitude is the same one people use to justify all sorts of uselessly stupid things right up until it hurts them or someone they love, then suddenly they're not so tough.
splat 13y ago
I agree with your point, but have to note that this is perhaps the most literal example of survivor's bias I have ever seen.
- kryten 13y ago
  Or is it just how the majority of the planet live other than yourself? I've been around a bit and the whole extreme food hygiene thing is pretty much irrelevant in most of the world. This is not "survivor bias". That's an arrogant term used to deride people. For reference, I also tend to eat mushrooms and plants I find (I know what I'm doing in that department).

ethomson 13y ago

I take your point, but I think you're drastically overestimating the quality of the sushi place. If you grab whatever cheap salmon is frozen then you'll likely be eating the same salmon that's used at a restaurant. (Even if you're on a coast, your salmon will be frozen for at least 24 hours before being served raw to kill those nasty parasites.) Your local grocer's counter is a disappointment since they've basically taken all of the lovely seafood that was individually quick-frozen at the source and thawed it out for god knows how long. That shrimp sitting behind plexiglass stinking the place up? It came to them in a bag frozen just like the bag sitting in the freezer case just to the left. It will be cheaper and higher quality if you buy the bag of individually quick-frozen (IQF) shrimp. If you live on a coast and go to a local fish monger then you can get better results. But even your fancy grocers are thawing pre-frozen shrimp unnecessarily.