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Ewww, sandwich craps.

It would be a miracle if more kids were sent to school with home made lunches. It may be more realistic to drive the kids to school in a car that gets 30 miles to the gallon rather than 16. The money saved on gas could then be used to buy the same marked up school lunch food.

I though that half the point of fugu was the poison. By my understanding there was a tingling sensation or something that was desirable and of course the whole brush with death thing adds to the excitement for some people.

I don't know if the poison adding a tingling sensation is true or not. Regardless, non-poisonous fugu is a good thing as no one ought to risk their lives over something as trivial as food. The "brush with death" thing isn't as exciting when it results in actual death, and it has on an infrequent but regular basis. I think people want it mainly because it is expensive and they can boast about having braved it. Consuming fugu is a good way of sacrificing yourself to prove Darwinism will eventually weed out the food snobs and elitists.

Right now, fugu chefs are fighting the non-poisonous variety because it'll put them out of a job.

I recently watched an episode of Bizarre Foods. The host ate fugu and said that there's enough poison in the flesh of the fish that it numbed his mouth, like novocaine.