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01-05-2019, 02:18 PM | #1 |
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Big $$$$ Tuna
Saw on the news that a 613 pound bluefin tuna sold for $3.1 million in Japan. That's a very expensive tuna sandwich.
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01-05-2019, 03:44 PM | #2 |
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Re: Big $$$$ Tuna
Yes, I saw that too, makes me wonder how much the customers are paying to eat tiny portions of it! Or is it all a bit of "one-upmanship" as chefs/restaurants jostle for attention? Tunas can be "cooked" by the desperate fight they put up when speared, but these fish market Tuna all have their brains and spinal cord destroyed after suddenly being jerked onto the boat. How someone then differentiates which ones are worth "XX" million is a bit of a mystery as bar hidden mercury compounds, fish flesh of any given species looks very similar when you carve them up. Not being a lover of sashimi I can wait to have my fish cooked.
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01-05-2019, 10:39 PM | #3 |
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Re: Big $$$$ Tuna
$3055378.98
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01-06-2019, 12:34 AM | #4 |
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01-06-2019, 02:59 PM | #5 |
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Re: Big $$$$ Tuna
Well seeing is believing:https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/05/a...ion/index.html
Self-proclaimed Japanese "Tuna King" and sushi restaurant owner Kiyoshi Kimura paid a record $3.1 million (333.6 million yen) for a giant bluefin tuna at the New Year's auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market Saturday. Big job chopping and carving up one of these! |
01-06-2019, 05:55 PM | #6 |
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Re: Big $$$$ Tuna
probably taken there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzrRVzn_25I&t=152s usually bought to pro fishermen by japan brokers about 7 to 10 $ per pound and sold in Japan 200 to 500$... or more was told this market get driven by mafia...
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01-06-2019, 08:16 PM | #7 | |
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01-07-2019, 10:01 AM | #8 |
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Re: Big $$$$ Tuna
I heard it on the radio today on my way to work. I couldn't believe it....
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01-14-2019, 12:25 PM | #9 |
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Re: Big $$$$ Tuna
at that price. we can all rest assured that tuna will be extinct in our lifetime. yeah capitalism!
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