Monday, August 4, 2008

do we smell tuna?

like many of you, we grew up on tuna fish casserole. to this day, we maintain that nothing offered by even the great metropolitan grille comes close to this sublime bit of hot dish. and tuna sushi.... mmmmm, tuna....

coal-fired power plants in the u.s. and china ruined all that. these days, the mercury level in tuna is high enough that tricky dickless is considering having the epa reclassify them as thermometers. what to do?

well, if you trust the fda (we know, we know), there is a handy little calculator based on what they say are 'safe' levels of mercury. (even here, there is a caveat: for the calculator to be accurate, they make the assumption that you eat no other seafood of any kind for your entire life.)