Quiz: If it puffer, you supper!

________is the Japanese word for pufferfish and the dish prepared from it can be lethally poisonous. It is said that Japanese chefs must undergo years of training to obtain licence to prepare this dish and despite these precautions, numerous people die every year from improperly prepared dish. Fill up the blank.

Standard instructions include - (a) Never open this fruit yourself (it must open on its own) and only eat the cream-coloured, fleshy pulp around seeds. (b) Do not eat any of the pink flesh or the black seeds which are toxic (c) Improper consumption is known to cause serious illness. What Jamaican fruit are we talking about ?

Hákarl, a traditional Icelandic dish, is Greenland _______ meat that is cured and hung to dry for three to five months. This process is necessary to neutralise the high levels of urea and trimethylamine oxide in its flesh. These animals don’t have a urinary tract, so waste and toxins are filtered through its skin and flesh which when consumed cause intoxication. Fill up the blank.

______, a Korean dish, is made of live baby octopus tentacles that are cut into pieces, seasoned and served immediately. Suction pads on the tentacles maintain suction even after the tentacles are severed, so diners must chew the tentacles before they stick to the roof of your mouth and choke you to death. Fill up the blank.

___________, which are native to Canada and commonly used in jams, pies, wines, teas, syrups and supplements, are safe to eat if they are fully ripe and properly cooked. However, the leaves, twigs and seeds contain potentially fatal levels of cyanide-producing glycoside, which when consumed causes serious illness. Fill up the blank.

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