Avoid anything labeled “White Tuna”.
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Actually, I’ll take yours. Escolar/super white tuna is absolutely delicious, grilled or as sushi. You just have to avoid eating too much. I’m good with 4 pieces of nigiri. And it’s easy to pass on extra helpings.
Oh, and White Tuna would make a great band name for an Eminem/REO Speedwagon project.
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This is the hard part: Consumer awareness. I agree, it’s tasty.
If it’s on the sushi menu, I don’t sweat it. Maybe I’ll have a piece or two. But being fish-aware (which I know you know I am 
) I already know to avoid too much of it. Does anyone else in the US who is not obsessed with fish or food safety?
Lots of places regulate it, turns out. Because consumer awareness of consumption levels, I presume, is a fundamentally losing battle. Wikipedia doesn’t mention it, but I believe Europe also lists Escolar as toxic.
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When I’ve purchased it at a grocery store, they handed out a note card with the information not to eat more than 6 ounces per person, less for kids. Then again, that grocery store also includes the Seafood Watch status for every type of fish and shellfish in their case, so they already lean in the direction of informing consumers.
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Even though you were talking about a different issue than mercury in seafood, your description of your grocery store’s careful awareness made me wonder what the Venn Diagram looks like for the kinds of parents who eat sushi (and seafood in general) versus anti-vaxxers.
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It seems to be very dependent on the person. Obviously when Frito was putting olestra in their chips they hadn’t seen any issues in their test groups (although I suspect that they were also pretending that no-one ever eats a whole bag in one sitting). I’ve eaten a whole filet with no issue in SF, but when I try to get more than a nigiri serving here the servers get shitty with me.
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“Thank goodness we didn’t vaccinate you, Joey! Who knows what kind of damage the mercury in those shots would have caused? Don’t forget to take your tunafish sandwich for lunch today!”
I see what you did there.
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