Oishinbo - Vol. 29 Ch. 264 - A Blessing from The Sun

[MangaDex]

 

[Mugiwara325]

The happy cat face is very silly, but this chapter is grounded enough that I think it deserves a caution.

Salt-grilled fish is rich in both fats and sodium, both of which can be harmful to domestic cats if fed in large quantities. If you do want to feed your pet cat cooked fish, vets recommend a simple steamed fish, or any method where the fat is cooked out sufficiently.

You can still feed your cat fatty fish if you want, it's not going to kill them, but think of it as a treat, not a daily dietary need.

 

[LavTheBurger]

The happy cat face is very silly, but this chapter is grounded enough that I think it deserves a caution.

Salt-grilled fish is rich in both fats and sodium, both of which can be harmful to domestic cats if fed in large quantities. If you do want to feed your pet cat cooked fish, vets recommend a simple steamed fish, or any method where the fat is cooked out sufficiently.

You can still feed your cat fatty fish if you want, it's not going to kill them, but think of it as a treat, not a daily dietary need.

Isnt there a few fishes that are also high in mercury?

I know in humans, some of em are not recommended for pregnant women. I just am fuzzy on which.

Mackerel, I wanna say?

 

[Mugiwara325]

Isnt there a few fishes that are also high in mercury?

I know in humans, some of em are not recommended for pregnant women. I just am fuzzy on which.

Mackerel, I wanna say?

Correct, mercury poisoning is a concern when it comes to certain species of fish. I've read pretty far into Oishinbo and I haven't encountered a chapter where this issue is addressed, so I suppose I'll explain it here.

Mercury often enters marine ecosystems through water pollution, as runoff from power plants or goldmines. They don't always occur as elemental mercury, often times they will exist as organic mercury (like methylmercury).

When mercury compounds enter the ocean, they get 'eaten' by plankton and other microorganisms, collecting in their body. Small fish eat the plankton, then big fish eat the small fish, and through this process of predation, the mercury collects more and more in predator species higher up the food chain. This process is called bioaccumulation.

Following this process, we can intuit that the species with the highest concentration of mercury in their bodies would be large, predatory fish. There are apparently several other factors that can complicate things somewhat, but this works well enough as a general rule. The amount of mercury ingested in this way is toxic enough to cause developmental abnormalities in fetuses, so pregnant women are often advised not to eat too much seafood.
In particular, the US FDA has highlighted 4 specific species for pregnant women to avoid: King mackerel (that's the one you remembered), swordfish, tilefish, and shark.

 

[d_a_renoir]

Why is the natural wild dried fish cut differently than the factory one? The factory ones are split straight in half, while the natural one just opens the body and the head isn't split.

I guess the artist just happened to get his "natural dried mackerel" sample/reference looking like that so he doesn't really ask why?

 

[Mugiwara325]

Why is the natural wild dried fish cut differently than the factory one? The factory ones are split straight in half, while the natural one just opens the body and the head isn't split.

I guess the artist just happened to get his "natural dried mackerel" sample/reference looking like that so he doesn't really ask why?

It might just be personal preference, or perhaps Koizumi's kitchen isn't equipped with the proper knife to cut a fish head in half like that. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing you usually do at home.

 

[d_a_renoir]

It might just be personal preference, or perhaps Koizumi's kitchen isn't equipped with the proper knife to cut a fish head in half like that. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing you usually do at home.

You can do the perfect half split at home, this article says you can just do it with normal cooking knife.
So yeaaah, might be that's just the personal habit of the person who gave the artist the source material. When I looked for pictures of homemade dried horse mackerel, there's pictures of both versions of the cut.