# Enjoy canned salmon? Next time you eat it, try not to think about this! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2024, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189 "2024-04-12T08:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189/1 "2024-04-12T08:16:00Z")
Good luck not eying every bit suspiciously like it might be a worm. > **[Expired Cans of Salmon From Decades Ago Reveal a Big Surprise](https://www.sciencealert.com/expired-cans-of-salmon-from-decades-ago-reveal-a-big-surprise)** > > Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum, with decades of Alaskan marine ecology preserved in brine and tin. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189/2 "2024-04-12T09:07:40Z")
I once found a living worm in a piece of cod that I was cutting up. It wrapped itself around my finger and squeezed. I think it was a few years until I ate fish again. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189/3 "2024-04-12T11:47:37Z")
Same here. Ours was in a piece of salmon from Costco (we observed, but did not interact with it). We brought it right back and they gave us a refund, no questions asked. While indicative of a healthy wild salmon, and if cooked it becomes harmless, it still grossed-out my wife so much she wont eat fresh salmon any more - only frozen (altho I have seen her eat sushi, which ISTM is more risky, but that’s another topic). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189/4 "2024-04-12T11:51:49Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > altho I have seen her eat sushi, which ISTM is more risky, but that’s another topic). In a lot of places, the fish will have been previously frozen, anyway. In NYC, it’s required. Elsewhere, it’s just an FDA recommendation. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189/5 "2024-04-12T13:40:50Z")
Eh, gonna have to better than that to gross me out. Canned salmon is cooked so thoroughly the bones are crumbly and edible. When I eat canned salmon I eat everything- flesh, bones, skin. The oily liquid it’s packed in makes a good seafood soup base addition. A potential few little cooked worms don’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189/6 "2024-04-12T13:53:34Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > I once found a living worm in a piece of cod that I was cutting up. It wrapped itself around my finger and squeezed I never find a huggy worm in my fish. Lucky. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189/7 "2024-04-12T14:21:42Z")
Oddly enough, I have a not that old can of salmon that was left here by a house guest. Does anyone have any good recipes? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enjoy-canned-salmon-next-time-you-eat-it-try-not-to-think-about-this/1000189/8 "2024-04-12T14:46:21Z")
Yuck! Thx now I have another repulsion. Worms and Fish… They have a long relationship…it seems.