Dan wrote on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:29:59 -0500:

> Ken Blake wrote:
>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:38:54 -0500, Dan Logcher
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Ken Blake wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:25:54 -0500, Dan Logcher
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> James wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You may get anal leakage in the end.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I eat it almost every time I go for sushi. I love
>>>>> it. Its one of my top five favorites and is now available at more
>>>>> and more sushi bars in the Boston area. It used
>>>>> to be one or two, back a few years.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is rather old news, I recall this at least a couple
>>>>> of years ago. Every sushi bar seems to have a different
>>>>> name for it. One place I go lists it as Marlin. The
>>>>> package read Oilfish.
>>>>
>>>> Shiro Maguro? I thought that was always albacore.
>>>
>>> Shiro maguro is albacore.. Super White Tuna is what some
>>> places call Oilfish/Escolar. I can get both of them at my favorite
>>> place.
>>
>> Thanks. I've never seen the term *Super* White Tuna before.
>>
>> I know escolar, though, although I've never seen it a sushi
>> bar. I like it's taste, but I don't like what it does to my
>> digestive system, so I've stopped eating it.

> The name is different everywhere I go.. some places just call it white
> tuna, some call it mutzu, etc. I guess we're the
> lucky ones that don't have the ill effects. I've eaten a fair
> amount too in one sitting. Does a pair of nigiri cause
> problems?

We had this discussion a little while ago and it's confusing because
both escolar and albacore can be called "white tuna". From personal
experience, escolar, called "white tuna" by the chef, is *delicious* and
produced the runs for a day. It is banned by the health authorities in
Japan.The problem is the very large oil content and some people are
lucky enough to be able to digest it.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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