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Friday, 22 July 2016

White tuna? Congratulations, you at “the Ex-Lax fish.”

Yes, that last story is from BuzzFeed. And it gets worse: This next one is from the New York Post. Apparently, we’ve lost our minds here this morning, but the NYC tabloid’s “Everything we love to eat is a scam” is one of the most compelling things we’ve read in a while, a riff on Larry Olmstead’s book “Real Food, Fake Food: Why you don’t know what you’re eating.” That Kobe steak you just had in Dubai? It was probably Wagyu. The extra-virgin olive oil we consume has been cut by sunflower oil. Think you just ate salmon and white tuna sushi? “Your salmon is probably fake … Your white tuna is something else altogether, probably escolar — known to experts as ‘the Ex-Lax fish’ for the gastrointestinal havoc it wreaks.”

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