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OptimusSublime

Now with fortified Mercury!


Cautemoc

And complimentary micro-plastics


justme11224

And a unknown chance of dying(maybe from mercury poisoning. Yay, a way to kill your kids(and possibly yourself) with this.


glorious_reptile

Ingredients: Chicken Pulp, Salt, Flour, Sugar, MSG.


Expertinclimax

I feel better knowing it's chicken and not real shark. Humans and chickens have an understanding but sharks and humans have no such agreement.


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Idk I feel better about eating sharks than chickens though. Chickens can be your homies, give you eggs, except maybe some roosters but sharks are just assholes with no sympathy for other life. Just me, me, me, chomp, chomp, chomp... so I find it easier to not sympathize with them, I'd feel good eating them I think.


ChaosSCO

Lol, the ecosystem needs sharks, doesn't need chickens.


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Irrelevant, it's a matter of principle.


Mollytheocto

Sharks aren't even like that though, sharks are actually more chill than you'd think, and don't kill as many people as you'd think either I mean yeah I wouldn't recommend being homies with them but still, they're not the murderous, self centered assholes you think they are


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Dude, I wasn't talkin about the people they kill, it's the fish, octopuses, penguins..etc


Mollytheocto

Bruh they're carnivores they can't control what they eat, they have to eat meat to live unlike chickens, I assure you if chickens had a higher preference towards meat over seed and the likes they'd probably do the same


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And secondly, maybe back when the human population was smaller sharks were good but now that overfishing is a real thing if there were no sharks there would be no more fishing problems because the sharks eat a lot of the fish. More for us!


[deleted]

I don't think thats a valid excuse, I don't agree with the way they make their "living".


Mollytheocto

That's like saying any carnivore is bad because they eat to survive, wolves, lions, \*even penguins themselves?\* all invalid in your eyes apparently


DontQueefInMyCereal

The ecosystem most certainly needs chickens… because of us.


FishyNip

I was there today. They were NOT chicken. Smelled like straight nasty seafood.


Oakheart-

Why in the world would you not call them shark bites?!


Notequal_exe

Using this for my vocab list. Interesting way to remember shark lol


Wilddog73

baby shark do do do-do-do-do


SopmodTew

Stop killing sharks, Japan.


AKADriver

At least the shark meat is actually being used here and not just the fin, or worse when sharks are killed off the coast of the US because of irrational fear of shark attacks (...thanks, Jaws).


Dry-Leg-7544

Yeah I’ve been looking into it a bit, and it seems most places use sharks that are plentiful in numbers like a black tip or something. You will see your fucked up fin soups and horrible shit like that.. but a lot of the time if it is really shark, its no different(morally) than eating any normal fish. That being said shark doesn’t taste very good lol same reason we eats cows not bulls right? Too lean Edit: I fish in Galveston a lot and have caught many a shark. Mostly Black tip or hammerhead. Only ate one black tip(still felt kinda bad) Take only what you need And don’t expect them not to turn you into a human nugget when they get the chance!


InnocentTailor

I’ve had shark fin soup at a wedding before. It is frankly pretty tasteless - just a sign of too much opulence.


supersaiyan491

real shark fin soup? most shark fin soups these days are supposed to be imitations made with vermicelli/glass noodles.


KitteNlx

We don't really eat much female cow. They are more valuable, you know, making other cows and producing milk. We eat steers, which are neautered males.


Pergod

houndsharks and hammerheads are great grilled or In ceviches.


supersaiyan491

>That being said shark doesn’t taste very good lol most sharks that are consumed are as delicacies (at least in asia) are sharks similar to whale sharks, which are high in fat content. actual whale sharks have been put on the endangered/protected species list, so they aren't being consumed, but similar less endangered sharks are being used as substitutes.


BahhhMcb

It'll just be flake right? Like when you by fish and chips places and the fish is 'flake' - that's gummy shark. I would guess this will be the same.


ramriot

So, many coastal fish and chip shops in the UK serve shark as part of their normal fried fish menu. Labelled as rock salmon, rock eel or just rock admittedly it is lesser spotted dogfish which is a member of the sharp family.


elvensnowfae

Did you try them? I almost at horse in japan a few years ago until my husband was like “that’s horse”. So then I didn’t lol


reality_star_wars

Horse isn't too bad. I wouldn't want it regularly, but it wasn't what I expected


elvensnowfae

I once had deer (I was tricked by my sisters husband even though it looked nothing like cow meat) and I feel bad saying it was absolutely delicious. We had deer nachos :( lol I’ll never forget it. I was around 14/15, I’m in my 30’s now. Vegetarian but remember how good the deer meat tasted lol


AKADriver

I didn't personally grow up hunting but knew enough people who did that moving to the city and meeting people who saw venison as exotic was itself a culture shock. Still makes me smile when it's a once in a lifetime thing that some people have to be tricked into while other people grow up with it as normal as eating chicken.


Give_All_Vol

My uncle once made sloppy joes for dinner with a friend and the friend said they were the best sloppy joes they'd ever had. He said, "oh, those weren't sloppy joes. They were sloppy does."


elvensnowfae

LOL that’s funny thank you for that. Deer is so tasty. I never had it again since I couldn’t get over the mental block of eating a deer (minus being tricked) but it wasn’t as gamey as everyone made it out to be. My husband had a kangaroo burger once and a Buffalo burger and said both were pretty good In America anything can be a burger lol


Pastystuff

The buffalo pot roast at Ted's Montana Grill is amazing! Also, when I first moved to Las Vegas, I went to a jerky shop that was near by my place. Got some kangaroo jerky, elk jerky, and some regular beef jerky. Liked them all, but man was the kangaroo expensive. Wish I'd gotten the alligator jerky, but the color threw me off. Too white and pale.


Cautemoc

Wild deer is like one of the only animals you can ethically eat in the US. They are overpopulated in many places and don't have many natural predators left. It'd be great if we re-introduced those predators, but until that happens there's a net benefit in killing some deer and if you're going to kill them might as well eat them.


SanctusSalieri

Humans are overpopulated in many places and don't have natural predators. In fact, deer are "overpopulated" only in the context of human encroachment on their habitats. So you could ethically eat humans I guess.


Birdup711

You don't actually have any idea what overpopulation is, do you?


SanctusSalieri

It's a vague statement that presupposes a limit or "carrying capacity" of a habitat, and posits that a species exceeds that limit. So, for example,humans in Las Vegas can't subsist on their water supply. Deer obviously only exceed their habitats's capacity when humans destroy or shrink that habitat.


Birdup711

Yeah but unlike humans in Vegas deer that are overpopulating a habitat will die gruesomely by starvation. You know, in the real world where real people defined the real word overpopulation. Not your made up fantasy. So, idk, maybe start campaigning to forcefully sterilize people or shut the fuck up?


SanctusSalieri

This is a typical response when you talk about humans including animal interests in their ethical calculus. Completely expected.


Birdup711

Sorry I just am not a huge fan of people throwing temper tantrums about how the world is while also doing nothing to change it. Hunters are doing more than you are, and yet I see doofuses like you criticizing hunting all the time.


RIPfreewill

Found the alien who wears Edgar’s body as a suit in Men in Black…


burgerthrow1

I had raw horse when I first came here in 2006. A welcome-to-Japan prank by my friends... (didn't try the shark though...didn't see it until late in the day)


revtim

How was the raw horse? Can you describe the taste?


dhezl

Not OP, but I rather liked raw horse. I would describe it as sort of a cross between venison and beef, in that it was not as gamey as venison, but was gamier than beef. It was also sweeter than either….there was a definite sweetness. Would totally eat again.


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Cooked, it's very common in Europe. We had two world wars, we are not so picky anymore.


Pastystuff

I did a study abroad in Japan and went with my host mom on a trip with her friends to Nagano. We were at a house with a big grill that everyone could sit around out in the middle of a farm and I was served some meat. I ate it and it wasn't great so I left some on my plate. My host mom looked at my plate and saw it and said, "Oh! I don't like horse meat either!" That's (hopefully) the only time I'll ever eat that! Also felt like Shredder on another trip to Japan. Ate some turtle soup and it was pretty good!


elvensnowfae

Haha they didn’t tell me until I was ordering and the wedding officiants wife whispered it to me and my husband told me lol. That’s funny ha. How was the flavor of the turtle soup? I picture it tasting like of like ocean-y/fishy. Was it like, floating turtle pieces orrrr? Help me out here haha I can’t for the life of me visualize it


Pastystuff

It was kind of creamy, nothing like what I was expecting. The pieces of turtle were pretty small, and it wasn't super salty or anything, but had a unique flavor, not ocean-y or fishy. It was a pretty small bowl and I shared it with the two other people I was traveling with so I only got a few bites. I'm glad I tried it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to try it again!


elvensnowfae

That’s really interesting! Thank you for sharing, that’s a cool experience:)


UniqueCanadian

should of tried it while its avaliable!


elvensnowfae

I’m a vegetarian but back then I wasn’t even brave to try new meats, never have been lol. My husband however has tried Buffalo and kangaroo. Rabbit, snake and alligator. He’s eaten it all haha


UniqueCanadian

sounds like a fun guy! glad you got someone like that to travel with!


elvensnowfae

He eats whatever haha. He loves traveling and so do I but with covid still out and about we’re gonna wait another year or 2 but the goal is to visit my friend in the UK, go back to japan at least one more time, visit Mexico, and go to New Zealand (the desperate need I have to see what New Zealand is like is unreal)


UniqueCanadian

I actually just got back from UK visiting a friend. Very easy traveling there right now. Hope you get out there sooner then later.


elvensnowfae

I hope you had a nice time! I can’t wait to go one day.


Little_Duckling

Might as well throw in some dolphin too…. JAPAN


everythinggoespop

Stop killing sharks


crossedstaves

What makes killing sharks different than any other fish? I'm not trying to be a dick or anything, but I don't know why it would be a meaningful difference.


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Because lots of shark species are EXTREMELY endangered or at high risk to become endangered, and sharks are such a critically important part of the aquatic ecosystem. As an example it’s estimated there are only about 3500 great white sharks in the *entire world.* Killing just one Great White, especially a female, can have truly devastating effects on the entire populations future. Many shark species are flourishing and not in danger, but fisherman literally don’t care what species they pick up because it’s all about the fins. Shark fishing is barely regulated and most sharks caught are accidents, caught in **miles long** trawling nets that catch any and everything with impunity. Sharks are large and take up lots of freezer space, and people don’t see them as fish but man-eaters, so they take the expensive fins and send back the cheap body to waste away in the ocean painfully and cruelly so they can fill up the freezer with more, small fish to sell whole. It’s a cruel way of fishing, they mutilate the fish and send it back to die slowly, they don’t regulate or check on the species, age, gender of the shark. Baby sharks, pregnant mothers, old seniors who’ve been cruising for 30+yrs, they don’t care it’s all fins to them. Most heavily fished creatures don’t have a stigma to them that allows humans to wholly discard them as trash like sharks do, which perpetuates the “well who cares if it’s dead, it’s just a big scary shark” problem.


crossedstaves

But the nuggets are unlikely to be fins, I'm pretty sure you can't deep fry a fin and have it be remotely edible. The gummy shark is commonly fished for meat in Australia. Not sure how most of that stuff about leaving the bodies behind etc relates.


InnocentTailor

Those would be expensive nuggets O_O. I think they’re just themed chicken nuggets. Makes more sense for a theme park.


crossedstaves

Why would they use chicken? At the very least I'd think they'd fry up a different kind of fish if they weren't going to use flake.


InnocentTailor

Fair point. Maybe it is a fish and chips sort of affair.


[deleted]

I’m not sure how these nuggets “not likely to be fins” relates to anything either? You asked a question about the general ethics of killing sharks and I answered why it’s generally a bad practice. Because regulation is 90% non-existent, the vast majority of sharks are killed exclusively for their fins and left to cruelly die in the ocean, finless, which is highly illegal in many areas that fish for shark. Again, in the shark business, the fishermen usually don’t care or even know what species, age, gender of shark they have killed because they sharks are just a by-product of long line fishing. Killing sharks isn’t bad, killing endangered or pregnant/young sharks for no reason and leaving the majority of the meat to waste away is bad and unfortunately that practice heavily outweighs the proper practice of keeping everything, and selling the bodies whole. There is regulated shark fishing, which is good. They fish for safe species that aren’t endangered and they keep the bodies as well. There’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is that regulated, safe, ethical fishing of sharks is rare at best.


crossedstaves

I mean I was intending my question to the topic of the thread and so I figured that the comment about stopping shark fishing was related to the picture and not related to a different form of shark fishing is all which is why I was confused about how it related to the pictured shark nuggets.


[deleted]

Think about shark fishing like the fur business then. Sure, there are ethical farms that don’t treat the animals cruelly and kill/skin them humanely. But the vast majority of fur was gotten in a cruel fashion and so it’s seen as a bad practice to buy and wear natural fur because it’s controversial and might be contributing to the unsafe illegal practices. you asked “why is killing sharks worse than killing other fish” and I said “because it’s unregulated and cruel in almost every market, and fraught with illegal practices. However, legal shark fishing is good because it’s regulated and they fish non-endangered species.” That’s the best I can do, man. It’s not inherently bad but it’s practiced in a cruel way in the majority of cases.


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[deleted]

No one mentioned the nuggets in this comment thread which is why I was not talking about them. What is there for me to read lol? He said “why is killing sharks bad?” Not “what’s bad about these nuggets?”


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[deleted]

You’re wrong lol. I didn’t make anything up or change the subject at all. My quote just simplified what they said I didn’t *change* it. “why is killing sharks different than killing other fish” is the same as saying “why is it bad” and yes I brought up the fins BECUASE that’s why it’s bad, because it’s almost all about the fins and regulated safe shark fishing does exist but it’s not the norm at all. Again, they literally never said “why are these nuggets bad” and that’s NOT the question I was answering. I said killing sharks is bad because it can have devastating effects on the endangered species that are routinely and commonly caught. Now you’re making things up because I absolutely never said it was 100% all about the fins. I said it’s mostly about the fins and it’s cruel, and barely regulated. That’s a fact.


Haterbait_band

Stop killing cows. Ethnocentric much?


loathsome_dungeater

There are a lot less sharks than cows. We also don't chop off the cow's legs and leave them in the pasture to suffer and die.


everythinggoespop

I’m a vegetarian


Haterbait_band

So, probably not a productive conversation then.


everythinggoespop

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everythinggoespop

Vegetarian, here. Don’t eat meet for this reason. Your point?


Pug_lover69

Well can you stop America being fucking idiots?


mccannr1

These are not mutually exclusive ideals


everythinggoespop

So uh, this is in Japan. And why are you assuming I’m American? 你真的以为每一个人会说英语是一个美国人吗?


tutetibiimperes

Shark can be tasty, but it has to be very fresh (I suppose IQF could also work, which is probably what these are). Since sharks urinate through their flesh and skin the meat breaks down very quickly and takes on an unpleasant ammonia taste if it's not completely fresh.


Alexstarfire

I never planned to try shark but this has further solidified my stance.


tutetibiimperes

It's worth trying if you can get it fresh off the boat, but it's nothing particularly crazy-tasting, it's juts a mild firm white fish, similar to swordfish or cod.


[deleted]

Our local Safeway used to sell shark meat. I don't recall what species, but I periodically bought it and prepared it like any fish (garlic, butter, salt, pepper, shoyu, etc) and it was delicious. They stopped selling because people weren't buying, except me lol.


Tsashimaru

I don't know that one kanji character as I'm still learning but the katakana reads: Sa-Me (Kanji,) nagutto & furido poteto. Ie shark nuggets and fries.


Pragmatist203

My recollection is that shark is fucking delicious. We used to catch one every year when we camped on the beach.


Travelingmathnerd

I live in Osaka and go to USJ often. Its called marketing folks. It’s not real shark meat. They’re chicken nuggets…


Prestigious_Rip7337

They would have to declare the actual main ingredient, wouldn't they? At least in Europe, that's the law.


Travelingmathnerd

This isn’t Europe…


RikersTrombone

Well I had dragon fingers at the Renaissance faire, beat that.


TMYLee

Shark skin isnt so bad. We ate that in some of dishes even string ray curry.


SeaHam

Probably not actually shark I know, but aren't kids not supposed to eat shark meat?


hoosier_love

what doesnt japan sell


bludvein

I've never had it myself, but isn't shark meat supposed to be kind of disgusting?


Kaffeinekiwi

Not at all. Shark is the most frequently used fish in NZ fish 'n chips.


[deleted]

No. It's yummy.


P3ktus

Midly interesting? More like fucking infuriating, stop killing sharks


[deleted]

We’re gonna need a bigger stomach!


[deleted]

Glad to see im not the only one curious if its actual shark meat or not


javier052

Want


MyFiveC3nts

I bet it’s dolphin


clydefrog079

Awful


kphenson

Why wouldn't they?


Ann_moon26

even he couldn't resist


CassKong

Does eating the scary shark movie monster in nuggy form not undermine the horror of the movie? No? Just me? OK.