最后的晚餐？日本用餐者就杀人河豚鱼起分歧 [英国媒体]

Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish

最后的晚餐？日本用餐者就杀人河豚鱼产生分歧



Eating the liver of the fugu fish has been likened to Russian roulette – but some chefs want to serve a detoxified version

吃河豚肝脏被比作玩俄式轮盘，但是有些主厨想给客人提供去毒后的河豚鱼肝脏。

Despite the risks, officials in Saga prefecture, western Japan, are calling for an end to the decades-old ban on serving the liver – considered by some to be the tastiest part of the fish – in restaurants.

尽管存在风险，日本西部佐贺县的官员还是呼吁废除几十年来禁止餐馆提供河豚鱼肝脏的禁令。有些人认为脏脏是河豚鱼最美味的部位。

With help from a local fisheries firm and university researchers, the officials claim they have perfected a method of farming the fish that ensures the liver contains not a single trace of tetrodotoxin. If digested, the neurotoxin causes numbness around the mouth, followed by paralysis and death by asphyxiation. There is no known antidote.

在当地渔业公司和大学研究人员的帮助下，官员们称他们完善了一种养殖河豚鱼的办法，从而确保河豚鱼的肝脏不含有任何的河豚毒素。这种神经毒素一旦食入，可引发嘴部麻痹，然后是瘫痪和窒息死亡。目前还没有解药可治。

The poison in the fugu is produced when the fish feed on poisonous starfish, snails and other creatures. Rearing the fish on food that is toxin-free removes the risk, or so the theory goes.

当河豚吃下有毒的海星，蜗牛和其他生物时就会产生这种毒素。所以让河豚吃没毒的食物就可以避开这个危险，或者说理论上是这样的。

But owners of hundreds of fugu restaurants in Saga have warned that relaxing the law could end up killing diners.

但是佐贺县几百家的河豚餐馆主警告称放松这个法律可能会导致用餐者死亡。


HoshinoSakura 5 Aug 2016 22:43
There is no good reason to serve the liver of a Fugu - Yoshinori Yamaguchi who wants to do allow the sale of this is simply crazy.

完全没理由让餐馆提供河豚鱼肝脏，Yoshinori Yamaguchi想销售河豚鱼肝脏的想法真是太疯狂了。

MalikkilaM  HoshinoSakura 5 Aug 2016 23:34
I live in Japan. You can already eat it. Ain't saying where though!（＾?＾）

我住在日本。可以吃的。但是不告诉在哪里可以吃到，哈哈。

Peter Single  HoshinoSakura 6 Aug 2016 6:16
People who eat fugu liver are stupid
People who do not eat fugu liver are stupid too

吃河豚鱼肝脏的人就是蠢。
而不吃河豚鱼肝脏的人也蠢。

ID3937495 5 Aug 2016 22:46
Always remember The Simpsons episode when Homer ate a Fugu and lived to tell the tale.

还记得在《辛普森一家》的剧情，其中霍墨吃了河豚鱼，然后活着向他人讲述了自己的遭遇。

LossinLips  ID3937495 5 Aug 2016 23:24
Yes a classic one that - the chef was busy shagging the school teacher in the car park, so the sous chef prepared the fugu and got it wrong.

是的，那一集很经典哦——主厨在停车场里和学校老师乱搞，所以助理厨师准备了那道河豚鱼，所以中毒了。

FurryCanary 5 Aug 2016 22:51
How and when did people first work out which bits of the fugu were edible and which insanely toxic, and how many lives were lost in the process? That's what fascinates me.

人们是在什么时候通过什么方式得知河豚鱼的那些部位可以吃那些部位有剧毒的，以及在这个过程中有多少人失去了自己的生命？这是让我觉得迷人的地方。

bergisman  FurryCanary 5 Aug 2016 23:23
Why is what fascinates me? A person must be insane to be so obsessive about eating so dangerous a fish. I seem to remember reading in the Graun a couple of years ago that a group of sushi "connoisseurs" were unable to distinguish sushi from cod in an extended blind tasting test. Which, I guess, says it all.

为什么你会觉得那很迷？一个人沉迷于吃那么危险的鱼，那肯定是疯了。多年前我看到一篇报道称一组寿司“鉴赏家”在蒙眼舌感测试中无法辨别寿司和鳕鱼。我觉得这说明了一切。

Bluthner  bergisman 5 Aug 2016 23:35
One theory is that even the 'clean' bits of the fish contain trace amounts of the toxin. As we know, human beings quite like non-deadly doses of many toxins, because they tend to be highly stimulating. As this theory goes trace amounts of fugu toxin act as an stimulant and even an aphrodisiac, though of course it might just be the adrenalin jolt that comes from dicing with death and worrying, after you've swallowed, if you now have only a matter of hours to live.

一种理论认为这种鱼即使是“清洁”的那一部分也含有少量的毒素。我们都知道，人类喜欢吃一些微量的毒素，因为这可以刺激人体。所以按照这种理论来看，微量的河豚毒素是一种兴奋剂，甚至可以充当春药，但是也有可能是因为在吃河豚鱼时所产生的紧张心情而产生了肾上腺素导致的。

Liuzhoukaf  bergisman 5 Aug 2016 23:57
"were unable to distinguish sushi from cod"
That makes no sense whatsoever. Cod is a type of fish; sushi isn't, although it may contain fish. It's like saying someone can't distinguish curry from chicken.

“无法分辨寿司和鳕鱼”
这说不通啊。鳕鱼是一种鱼；寿司不是，尽管可能包含有鱼。就好比说某人无法分辨咖喱和鸡。

Veterantraveller 5 Aug 2016 22:53
Does it taste good?

河豚好吃吗？

wasurai  Veterantraveller 5 Aug 2016 23:25
I had some strips of it deep fried once, it was nice, and I am still alive.

之前我吃过一点油炸的河豚鱼，很好吃，我也没死啊。

asparagusnextleft  Veterantraveller 5 Aug 2016 23:32
A bit like chicken

有点像鸡肉

Megalomax 5 Aug 2016 22:54
People who eat animals should be made to eat every little bit.

吃动物的人应该把动物的所有部位都吃了。

Mark Mclauchlan  Megalomax 5 Aug 2016 23:08
Even the nipples?

甚至乳头都不放过？

Nepthsolem  Megalomax 5 Aug 2016 23:15
People who eat fruit and vegetables should be made to eat every little bit.

照你这么说，吃水果和素菜的人应该把蔬菜水果的所有部分都吃掉。

havetheyhearts 5 Aug 2016 22:55
I wonder how healthy eating fish is in Japan after Fukushima ?

福岛事件后在日本吃鱼还安全吗？

sgwnmr  havetheyhearts 5 Aug 2016 23:16
Fukushima is in the far north west. So as safe as eating any fish from the Pacific.

福岛位于遥远的西北部。所以吃太平洋里的鱼是很安全的。

Helvetian  sgwnmr 5 Aug 2016 23:49
It's north east, and not "far". Far north is Hokkaido.

是东北部啦，而且并不遥远。北海道才有点遥远。

sgwnmr  StrangeBoson 6 Aug 2016 0:00
Liver, not the fish. Different areas of Japan have different local foods. Saga is trying to push this one. Saga is a rural dump that needs tourism. Food tourism is huge in Japan.

是肝脏不是鱼。日本不同区域有自己当地的特色食物。佐贺县正在推这种河豚肝脏。佐贺县是个乡下地带，很需要旅游业。食品旅游在日本有非常大的市场。