:eek: Tuna fish isn’t supposed to stare back at you. LOL
Anyone ever hear of this before? How did it it avoid getting sliced and diced with the fish?
I saw this yesterday, when was trending on Facebook. IIRC, it did get sliced and diced–she only got the thing’s head.
And no, I hadn’t heard of it, and now I kind of wish I hadn’t.
I once got an eye (hopefully from the fish) in a can of salmon. It was sliced along the axis of the iris and was peering right up at me. I saw it for literally .5 of a second before I reflexively trashed the whole can. Never bought another can of salmon, but eat tuna regularly.
Thanks straightdope. Those little tongue parasites have been nightmare-fuel for years. Now I’ll never be able to eat another can of tuna without thinking about this article.
Well, if it’s canned, it’s nothing but a bit of bonus protein.
We don’t want tuna with taste, we want tuna that taste you back.
Why that little guy is just cute as the dickens!
I wonder how big these parasites get? I guess the body is sliced up in that can somewhere. Or maybe spread out among several cans. <shudder>
That’s protein I don’t need.
This is how big. (Thread)
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Grab some brain-bleach before clicking. 
No tongue exsanguinating, but I’ll just leave this here… (p.s. the second prefilled google search is on them as pets!)
Perfect username and thread combination.
I was hoping thelurkinghorror would join the discussion. 
Why, why for the love of god, why!
THe least the tuna company could do is offer some good recipes.
I would not click links in this topic even for money…
How can this happen? The tongue parasite is in the fish’s mouth, and it’s not like they take a whole tuna and drop it into a meat grinder.
Who’s in the know? How is whole tuna processed to produce canned tuna?
I am now thinking that the 3 cans of tuna in my cupboard may just sit there for a loooooong time unopened. Until I forget all about this and think of tuna as good food again. Or at least until the brain bleach starts working.
Excuse me now, I have to go get more brain bleach.
I thought it was going to be a tuna eyeball staring back, not the stuff of nightmares.
I thank Neptune I gave up eating tuna a long time ago.
Yep. We read about this last week and usually have a tuna sandwich once a week; it’ll be a while before we do again. It’s not logical, but the thought of eating tuna now turns my stomach. Which is probably a good thing since it’s not really an ethical food choice anyway.
Oh, get over it, that thing grew up eating nothing but tuna, it’s practically tuna itself.
Yes, I’m working up the self-deception
It’s SEE food after all.