“ Eventually your muscles begin to freeze—first your lips and tongue, then the tips of your fingers, then your hands, then your arms and legs, and finally your heart and lungs. Victims typically remain conscious, but are eventually paralyzed and can’t move or speak. (In parts of Japan, legend has it, the bodies of fugu-overdose victims were once laid beside their open caskets for several days to ensure that they were not being buried alive.) The amount of tetrodotoxin required to kill a man can fit on the head of a pin. Tetrodotoxin poisoning has no known cure.
Adam Platt, detailing in no uncertain terms what would happen if his Fugu (blowfish) eating experience were to go wrong.
Ah, if only all critics could die from, uh, blowing. For what it’s worth: a great piece.
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