Banned: Fugu — A Delicacy 1,500 Times More Poisonous Than Cyanide
The fish too deadly for emperors, royalty and the shogunate
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6 min readJul 10, 2020
Japanese Pufferfish, or fugu as its called in Japanese, is perhaps the most infamous banned food in the world. Fugu has almost become the poster child of banned food, exemplarily of our strange obsession with eating food that could and does prove deadly.
