# Eating Flipper

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-flipper/167279>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 8, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-flipper/167279 "2003-04-08T10:39:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-flipper/167279/21 "2003-04-09T06:12:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*  
> \*\*There is a dolphin fish which people can eat. I’ve had it before-it’s really good. \*\*

That one’s a fish, similar to tuna. Here anyways, it’s called Mahi-Mahi instead of dolphin so that people don’t confuse it with the marine mammal which is also called a dolphin.

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**Author:** ![bradwalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@bradwalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bradwalt)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-flipper/167279/22 "2003-04-09T06:15:07Z")

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Sorry, I mis-interpreted this post as “Why do we have to slaughter the innocent tuna?”

1. How do we know that tuna are not intelligent?
2. Do any religions have a problem with eating tuna?
3. As Michael Keaton said in the movie Night Shift, “Let’s just feed mayonnaise to live tuna, and eliminate the middleman.”

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