—Illustration: Hal Mayforth
There's a toxic bottom dweller lurking on your sushi menu. And its side effects are, uh, unpleasant, to say the least.
One day last year, Will Heidel and his wife were craving fish for dinner. They headed to San Francisco's upscale Ferry Building Marketplace and asked a fishmonger for a recommendation.
"He said, 'Escolar, this is a great fish; you should give it a go,'" recalls Heidel. "So we went home and cooked the fish, and loved every single bite of it." The fish was rich and silky, with a uniform white smoothness that was almost unreal.
Two days later, Heidel was at his job in real estate development when he suddenly felt that "something was not right" in his gut.
Back at home, his wife admitted she'd suffered the same oily unpleasantness the day before.
They googled "anal seepage" and found a blog post devoted to escolar and its consequences. "It was exactly what happened to us."
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