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    Lightbulb Worm in Fish - Not a Health Code Violation?

    I came across this story. Does anybody know if it's true that worm in fish is a normal thing. I'm sorry this is just gross. I would not be able to keep eating if this happened to me in a restaurant.

    Click here to read the full story.

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    First time hearing about this, and if it WAS me, I'd put them out of business by sueing the pants off them!!

    Then I'd scratch them right off my list of places to dine in. The saga doesn't end there either. I'd tell EVERYONE about it and they wouldn't eat there either!!

    Eateries have to try to build, maintain and uphold a very good and solid reputation for their services and food. If not, then bad publicity and scandalous health codes and sanitary issues become their worst nightmare!!

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    I used google, there is a lot of info on this. Round Worms in Fish


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    If the worm is cooked, it's just a little added protein.
    Most of all, cook from the heart, and you’ll never be lonely when the dinner bell rings! - Chef Robert Irvin

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    The hell you say!

    A larva of some kind also comes in a certain brand of Tequila.

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    On average, the Sacramento County Health Department receives about one complaint a month from restaurant patrons who find dead worms in fish, McCoy said.
    Problems can arise if the fish is not properly cooked and the worms are still alive. If a person eats a live worm, he can become a host to the parasite. Finding a live worm in cooked fish would show that the fish was not properly cooked, and that would also be considered a violation, McCoy said.
    Yikes.
    Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

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    if you only knew what you eat in your lifetime and do not know about you would quit eating. I have heard of this a long time ago in fish, is quite common in some areas, especially river fish, that is why proper cooking is always suggested, and meals are recommended at 3 times a week only. It use to be common in undercooked pork, not so much today as sanitation has improved, but still recommend that meat be cooked to proper temperatures.

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    I worked in a seafood resturant as a teenager. Have never eaten halibut (did not eat swordfisuntil 10 years ago), beacuse I was told they would have worms. You might see them coming to the surface as they were being cooked. I guess where halibut and swordfish are large fish, and will be older than other fish since they are bigger, worms would not be unusual.
    Dunno, that is what I was told. (need a shoulder shrugging smilie)
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    Eewww, gross!!

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    They say a lot of wild animal meat is wormy. Fish has to be processed so quickly to be fresh. It doesn't get as much inspection as other meats.


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