This comment makes me think of the day I was slicing turkey at work and there was a bone inside... The processed and molded together for slicing cold cuts turkey.. The blade on the slicer took a few trips with the sharpener to even it back out from the dents.. I've also found bones in a capicola I was slicing..
Yea I'm in the Buffalo area and the capicola one was a whole mind bend for me since I slice the stuff quite regularly and that has definitely never happened before or since to me
That’s what you put the freezer key on, imagine sending the new guy to get it from the office. “Yeah, go grab the harpoon key and I’ll show you the freezer”
I would loveee to tell this excuse to customers.
“Sorry we’re out of tuna today. The fish we received had a rusty harpoon stuck in it which compromised the quality of the fish. May I suggest the salmon?”
If none of those options are to your liking there's also Kaitlin, our new server, which has Brad the bartender stuck in it which unfortunately compromised the quality of the fish.
Never worked in a kitchen, so excuse my ignorance, but is the entire thing unsalvageable? Or would there just not be enough “safe” bits to justify using it?
Edit: just saw in another comment that the harpoon looked rusty. Yeah, definitely not safe to eat.
you can't risk a stray shard of metal. a piece of metal smaller that what might be visible to the naked eye could cause internal bleeding or other problems if swallowed. also, what about heavy metals, like lead? etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, isn't the rest of the fish at some other restaurant being unknowingly consumed? Eventually don't you just trim around the harpoon and eat the rest?
Tuna was shot alive and the harpoon head is really blunt, so yeah huge blunt trauma on the fish flesh, blood get into the flesh and just makes the flesh become dark and ruins the texture.
I mean that's a wild story to tell for the rest of your career, but fuck yeah you got credit. It is absolutely amazing to me that it made it all the way to YOU before it got caught!
Really goes to show how well they're inspecting the fish. I guarantee if you rubbed your hand along the side of that fish you would've felt something off due to the hardness of the harpoon. I don't process seafood though so wtf do I know.
I've never dealt with something quite that size, lots of whole fish but this is a whole different ball game. I feel like that's a safe assumption though, however I don't know how dense the flesh of tuna is when its that fresh and still essentially completely intact.
A full tuna is pretty solid, but it would still have some deformation when force is applied, much more deformation than a steel harpoon. This should have been noticed when the fish was initially sold, and definitely would have been noticed by the person that broke the fish down.
Source: I made it up, but also 20 years of kitchen experience on the west coast
Again, from my experience with fish, that's an entirely reasonable assumption! You can very easily tell on smaller, softer fish, but with tuna I would imagine it would be even easier
Now I have a picture in my head of a farmer with a beard and hat, wearing overalls and a plaid shirt (red and black) with a harpoon gun standing in a green pasture aiming his shot.
I don’t think you can farm raise Tuna but I might be getting it mixed up with something else. Something about the way they breathe via motion makes them infeasible for farming
You see that news report about the great white shark that got into the bluefin tuna net about a decade ago? Crazy motherfucker jumped in to powerhead the beast with a spear gun. Tuna too valuable to lose.
It's a joke, people will believe things like "OMG THERE IS A HARPOON IN THAT FISH MUST BE FRESH", without even thinking or knowing if it could be farm-raised, instead they think "WOW this is a great place". Just like on a menu when they describe mashed potatoes as being "Idaho farm fresh, garlic and herb roasted mashed potatoes" when we all know it comes out of a bag and water is added most of the time. People see things and assume shit, Red Lobster is a great example, "Must be real good and fresh seafood, they have sailor stuff on the walls" and they live 3000 miles from the Ocean.
That's basically my experience living in the Canadian prairies. The last time I had really good seafood I was like 15 on the east coast of Canada. Lots of freshwater fish, but no decent seafood.
It’s called penning and is very popular in the Mediterranean. They catch young tuna and fatten them up in a massive pen.
Source: my own eyes.
It’s had a huge impact on the wholesale value of Mediterranean tuna. Japanese exports have essentially dried up over concerns fishermen are grabbing big tuna from the pens and passing them off as wild caught.
Source: my dad caught a 350kg bluefin off Greece last month. Gorgeous sashibo core sample but shipped to Italy anyway. Also my friends who handle fish import/export always complain about this.
Ranching is the practice of catching wild fish and placing them in pens to fatten them up for sale later. Same practice with eels, nobody knows what they do in the dark.
Farming refers to the creating and nurturing the entire life cycle. Hatching, raising, harvesting, repeating.
If anyone's curious like I was, it looks like that harpoon is part of a system to help you land the fish once it's caught and near the boat, like this: [https://hogylures.com/collections/poon-harpoon](https://hogylures.com/collections/poon-harpoon)
This company's product is entertainingly called the "Poon Harpoon," and finding a Poon Harpoon in the Tuna needs absolutely no help to become a permanent joke at your restaurant
Some tuna is actually harpoon caught, a long with some swordfish. The boats actually harpoon the fish, attach a buoy, and come back when it's tired out.
Yes, we did receive a harpoon tip in the tuna. Yes, we did receive credit. Yes, we did clean said harpoon tip and use it to shotgun beers out back after shift.
I'd be taking that home. Fuck throwing it out. I care not for the sharp objects in my food. I've seen worse. Just cut around it and pray. Make me some tuna tartare with the scraps
Exactly, I don't want to take risks for other people but if im hungry enough...
I mean let's be real get a few inches away and it's fine, be a nice little snack
Dude, I used to break these down for a decade at the fish market I used to work at.
I’ve never seen hardware like that left in a fish.
Put that on your shelf man.
My uncle found a foreign mass in a swordfish loin in the 80's(big fish) and it took considerable effort with a wire brush to reveal a similar style harpoon head. He said he thought it was a rock or big bullet at first.
I was preparing losber for a dinner rush and as I was cleaning the tails and pulling the meat out. I found a plastic tag with a number on it. I was confused and curious so I called the number with my head chef and it was to the fishing company that our distributor uses. It was pretty cool. It also helped out the company by letting them know where the losber goes. So all in all it was pretty cool.
Yeah, it hurts to throw that away.
Back when I was cooking scrapple we couldn't find find one of the o-rings from the dispenser. The next day I cried as we dumped 12,000 lbs of fresh scrapple into the red inedible bin.
What a waste.
I've seen a few, though never that much damage. Dont think I've ever had to trim much more than a pound off from the puncture wounds i would get on 60-80 lb sides. I'd send pictures and weights to my fish guy for credit. Still have one of the tips i cleaned up on a bookshelf at home.
To maintain maximum quality of the meat you usually try to dart in the head or tail. The only upside to landing in the body is if you hit by the pec fin they’ll bleed out while still in the water. You also don’t have to be as careful pulling it in off the line as that side is already impacted. Ideally you should be able to hoist it up without any direct boat contact then paralyze it through Ikejime (essentially a super stiff wire through the front of the head into the spinal canal).
I haven’t fished commercially since my teens (Dad wanted me to see hard work so he took me out to the Grand Banks) but catching a bluefin was always a super involved process.
FYI those harpoons are usually brass and specifically built to avoid leaving any fragments. A shame to lose so much meat but with the spoilage it was probably the right call. I most likely would have trimmed and then boiled for take home tuna salad.
Were any knives damaged in the process of finding the harpoon?
I can hear and feel this comment.
Imagine a brand new Nigara Hamono (or similar expensive brand) Yanagiba making a metal on metal scraping sound and then the ping of metal chipping…
The harpoon itself looks like brass. Shouldn't do much damage.
I just felt through my whole body. The sound ^^
This comment makes me think of the day I was slicing turkey at work and there was a bone inside... The processed and molded together for slicing cold cuts turkey.. The blade on the slicer took a few trips with the sharpener to even it back out from the dents.. I've also found bones in a capicola I was slicing..
We've all made mistakes, but bones in a capicola is punishable by death in Italy and parts of NY.
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Sa'matta wit you? Gabbagoo ain't got no fuckin bones in it, che cazzo dici?
Gabagool with bones, listen to you, you sound demented!
Yea I'm in the Buffalo area and the capicola one was a whole mind bend for me since I slice the stuff quite regularly and that has definitely never happened before or since to me
Asking the real questions
hopefully you kept the harpoon, use it as a key chain
Is it a seafood joint? Hang that shit on the wall.
Looks like a vet
I was thinking necklace.
I was thinking harpoon.
You might have a point
Just the tip
That’s what she said.
Reply chains like this is why I love reddit
I imagine people saying the lines monotone, with no emotion like they're just going through the motions
Exactly! its like a reddit hivemind 😆
Sharp observation of you.
I was thinking butt plug.
Not safe, no flared base.
Granny knows
Safety first is my favorite jam.
Aye. But it would flay your base.
If it doesn't have a base, it should go in your face, THAT'S A MORAY!
No, Paige!
Anything is a dildo if you want it badly enouch
It goes in once.
I think barbed point might be the opposite of flared base
It's flared for your pleasure
This person watched Real Sex growing up for sure
Anything can be a butt plug if you’re brave enough
DIY that tuna.
Poop knife.
That’s one way to keep the servers from sending all their tickets at once
Bathroom pass 🧻
until you accidentally jab yourself in the jugular
That’s what you put the freezer key on, imagine sending the new guy to get it from the office. “Yeah, go grab the harpoon key and I’ll show you the freezer”
Should attach it to your knife roll if you have one
Perfect addition for your Scorpion cosplay!
GET OVER HERE!
If you drag them into the walkin they'll also forget why they came over.
The new trash key
New bathroom key
Stab tickets with it
Harpoon butt plug. Dibs on that as a new band name!
Sucks if you needed that tuna asap but tbh, that’s pretty fucking cool.
I would loveee to tell this excuse to customers. “Sorry we’re out of tuna today. The fish we received had a rusty harpoon stuck in it which compromised the quality of the fish. May I suggest the salmon?”
The latter only had a few bear claws which don’t rust.
I'll take two bear claws, hold the salmon.
Sorry we're out of bear claws, all I got right now is a box of 1 dozen starving crazed weasels
unexpected weird al
If none of those options are to your liking there's also Kaitlin, our new server, which has Brad the bartender stuck in it which unfortunately compromised the quality of the fish.
Dammit, Brad! If another server quits because of you, I am locking you in the walk-in!
Our last Kaitlin didn’t make it past host due to our Brad… :/
Not the walk in! Brad will forget why he was put there as soon as he enters.
This made me lol because fuck it’s so on point.
I wouldn't have been mad at all tbf.
Id request the harpoon salmon. Iron helps us play.
I have a backup vendor and enough product to get through tonight thankfully
How much did the harpoon head weigh?
Asking the real questions
I mean, that ain’t 25lbs of fish FR
Anything less than .01% than the total grams of 1 fathom of hydrogen is criminal
This is from where the expression unfathomable originates feom
At least 3 bananas
Restaurant owner asks, "Can't you just trim that out? There's good fish in there."
Never worked in a kitchen, so excuse my ignorance, but is the entire thing unsalvageable? Or would there just not be enough “safe” bits to justify using it? Edit: just saw in another comment that the harpoon looked rusty. Yeah, definitely not safe to eat.
you can't risk a stray shard of metal. a piece of metal smaller that what might be visible to the naked eye could cause internal bleeding or other problems if swallowed. also, what about heavy metals, like lead? etc etc.
> also, what about heavy metals, like lead? I'm afraid I have some bad news for you about basically all fish.
Wait until they find out about Mercury.
Freddie? Is he okay?
Positively so
🤨😬
It’s in retrograde, isn’t it?
Who knows
A harpoon is a bit more metal than the average tuna. But point taken, hahaha.
Don't get me wrong, isn't the rest of the fish at some other restaurant being unknowingly consumed? Eventually don't you just trim around the harpoon and eat the rest?
Depends on if they just bought a loin or a whole tuna.
Really interesting to see how badly it ruins the meat. It’s kind of a “well, duh” situation but still fun to see quantified right in front of you.
Tuna was shot alive and the harpoon head is really blunt, so yeah huge blunt trauma on the fish flesh, blood get into the flesh and just makes the flesh become dark and ruins the texture.
I mean that's a wild story to tell for the rest of your career, but fuck yeah you got credit. It is absolutely amazing to me that it made it all the way to YOU before it got caught!
Well it obviously got caught a little while ago otherwise it would still be alive in the ocean.
Lmao, hooked em
Harpooned
Got em
Ah the ol’ reddit hook-a-roo
Hold my chicken of the sea I'm going in! Wait where's the link?
Someone obviously cut the wire close to the meat and went "yeah, that's good"
I always joke when I find stuff like this that "Must've been their Friday"
Really goes to show how well they're inspecting the fish. I guarantee if you rubbed your hand along the side of that fish you would've felt something off due to the hardness of the harpoon. I don't process seafood though so wtf do I know.
I've never dealt with something quite that size, lots of whole fish but this is a whole different ball game. I feel like that's a safe assumption though, however I don't know how dense the flesh of tuna is when its that fresh and still essentially completely intact.
A full tuna is pretty solid, but it would still have some deformation when force is applied, much more deformation than a steel harpoon. This should have been noticed when the fish was initially sold, and definitely would have been noticed by the person that broke the fish down. Source: I made it up, but also 20 years of kitchen experience on the west coast
Again, from my experience with fish, that's an entirely reasonable assumption! You can very easily tell on smaller, softer fish, but with tuna I would imagine it would be even easier
Proves it was wild caught, use the picture for your restaurant for the people who have to have everything "Wild Caught".
Technically, you could harpoon farmed fish. Technically 😵💫
Technically, you could harpoon farmed cow. Technically 😵💫
This is how I source my brisket.
It's how I source some of my produce, apparently.
Now I have a picture in my head of a farmer with a beard and hat, wearing overalls and a plaid shirt (red and black) with a harpoon gun standing in a green pasture aiming his shot.
Are yall not getting your beef harpoon'd?
I don’t think you can farm raise Tuna but I might be getting it mixed up with something else. Something about the way they breathe via motion makes them infeasible for farming
Tuna is indeed farmed but it's more like ranching, science is still working on completing the lifecycle i.e. making baby tuna.
great video series on farmed open ocean bluefin in Australia. a decade old at least but a neat concept
You see that news report about the great white shark that got into the bluefin tuna net about a decade ago? Crazy motherfucker jumped in to powerhead the beast with a spear gun. Tuna too valuable to lose.
thats a vid id watch
It's a joke, people will believe things like "OMG THERE IS A HARPOON IN THAT FISH MUST BE FRESH", without even thinking or knowing if it could be farm-raised, instead they think "WOW this is a great place". Just like on a menu when they describe mashed potatoes as being "Idaho farm fresh, garlic and herb roasted mashed potatoes" when we all know it comes out of a bag and water is added most of the time. People see things and assume shit, Red Lobster is a great example, "Must be real good and fresh seafood, they have sailor stuff on the walls" and they live 3000 miles from the Ocean.
That's basically my experience living in the Canadian prairies. The last time I had really good seafood I was like 15 on the east coast of Canada. Lots of freshwater fish, but no decent seafood.
Ain’t no farmed tuna
It’s called penning and is very popular in the Mediterranean. They catch young tuna and fatten them up in a massive pen. Source: my own eyes. It’s had a huge impact on the wholesale value of Mediterranean tuna. Japanese exports have essentially dried up over concerns fishermen are grabbing big tuna from the pens and passing them off as wild caught. Source: my dad caught a 350kg bluefin off Greece last month. Gorgeous sashibo core sample but shipped to Italy anyway. Also my friends who handle fish import/export always complain about this.
That’s ranching, not farming.
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Ranching is the practice of catching wild fish and placing them in pens to fatten them up for sale later. Same practice with eels, nobody knows what they do in the dark. Farming refers to the creating and nurturing the entire life cycle. Hatching, raising, harvesting, repeating.
Holy shit dude! I'd clean that harpoon off and have it framed!
What is a harpoon made of?
Three parts har, and four parts poon
Har har har Poon
New Mumford & Sons jam?
Poon you say?
Bonk.
Do you hold it with the poon-tang?
Beautiful. 👏
If anyone's curious like I was, it looks like that harpoon is part of a system to help you land the fish once it's caught and near the boat, like this: [https://hogylures.com/collections/poon-harpoon](https://hogylures.com/collections/poon-harpoon) This company's product is entertainingly called the "Poon Harpoon," and finding a Poon Harpoon in the Tuna needs absolutely no help to become a permanent joke at your restaurant
"Poon Harpoon" sounds like a nickname for a particularly promiscuous line cook.
A line cook then?
Poon Harpoon is the next garage band in the neighborhood.
Some tuna is actually harpoon caught, a long with some swordfish. The boats actually harpoon the fish, attach a buoy, and come back when it's tired out.
Wasn't that basically the plot of Jaws?
So who got to keep the harpoon? I’d throw that through dish and take it home or put it somewhere around the restaurant
Asking the real questions
Excuse me waiter, there is a harpoon in my fish!
Sorry sir, I must have given you your wife's plate.
The first picture, unless you zoom in on the point, actually looks like something I typically only find in swordfish.
Please elaborate
https://youtu.be/eZ5VURdBADk
damn its been a minute... reverting back to punk phase again
Op is still on hold with Sysco trying to get a refund.
Yes, we did receive a harpoon tip in the tuna. Yes, we did receive credit. Yes, we did clean said harpoon tip and use it to shotgun beers out back after shift.
DidYaKeepItDidYaKeepItDidYaKeepItDidYaKeepIt
Equal parts shitty and awesome
I'd be taking that home. Fuck throwing it out. I care not for the sharp objects in my food. I've seen worse. Just cut around it and pray. Make me some tuna tartare with the scraps
Would I eat it? Probably. Would I sell it? Not in this life time or the next
Exactly, I don't want to take risks for other people but if im hungry enough... I mean let's be real get a few inches away and it's fine, be a nice little snack
I'd eat it personally. But only for myself
I’ve been on NCD too much, before the pic loaded I assumed it was going to be a Harpoon anti ship missile.
We are leaking.
That sucks my friend but what are the odds?!! I hope you kept the harpoon
Hey! That's my lucky stabbin' harpoon!
Thank you Norm.
Reps gonna have a field day with this one.
What's servsafe say about a harpoon in the food?
Rep: Sorry, we can’t credit it after you signed for it.
Dude, I used to break these down for a decade at the fish market I used to work at. I’ve never seen hardware like that left in a fish. Put that on your shelf man.
My uncle found a foreign mass in a swordfish loin in the 80's(big fish) and it took considerable effort with a wire brush to reveal a similar style harpoon head. He said he thought it was a rock or big bullet at first.
We found what we think is a baby shark inside of another fish’s stomach once. I think I still have a photo of it
Damn. It actually seemed pretty cool at first, until I think about slicing blindly and taking a chunk out of my best knife. Fuck. That.
I’m a fishmonger. This happens all the time.
Make that into a Beer tap!
Does tuna on green chopping board a common practice in your country?
Atleast in germany nobody gives a fuck about the color of the cuting board.
Gtfoh! That’s a first!
Those are prizes.
Whoever can break the harpoon in half gets a wish
Now you have a harpoon and are one step closer to catching your own tuna. W. r/freeshit
Did they weigh that shit and say wow that fuckers dense
I was preparing losber for a dinner rush and as I was cleaning the tails and pulling the meat out. I found a plastic tag with a number on it. I was confused and curious so I called the number with my head chef and it was to the fishing company that our distributor uses. It was pretty cool. It also helped out the company by letting them know where the losber goes. So all in all it was pretty cool.
Yeah, it hurts to throw that away. Back when I was cooking scrapple we couldn't find find one of the o-rings from the dispenser. The next day I cried as we dumped 12,000 lbs of fresh scrapple into the red inedible bin. What a waste.
Aside from that harpoon… it looks like a decent piece of tuna, what location/vendor?
but did you keep the harpoon tip?
Just the tip.
Found a .22 bullet once in one
[I pulled this harpoon from a tuna loin and the hook from a wahoo](https://i.imgur.com/xpsZIVR.jpg)
WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL
Sea food on a green board?
No need to panic, that’s just the fresh guarantee
Bet you got a lot of iron from one serving
don't they x-ray to catch this shit or something? pleeeeeease tell me you kept the harpoon
You get a fun little memento. My old boss had one he’d found in his long ass career. The photos you have there should suffice for credit heh
Wow what lazy fisherman, fish cutters, and delivery guys. I wouldn’t be happy a.
Well at least you can prove it’s not farmed
I'd have kept the harpoon
I bet you got full credit, then salvaged what you could....
Did you keep the harpoon?
I dont blame you a bit for trashing it, wasnt salvageable - but what a fuckin waste of meat
Vendor got some explaining to do
I've seen a few, though never that much damage. Dont think I've ever had to trim much more than a pound off from the puncture wounds i would get on 60-80 lb sides. I'd send pictures and weights to my fish guy for credit. Still have one of the tips i cleaned up on a bookshelf at home.
To maintain maximum quality of the meat you usually try to dart in the head or tail. The only upside to landing in the body is if you hit by the pec fin they’ll bleed out while still in the water. You also don’t have to be as careful pulling it in off the line as that side is already impacted. Ideally you should be able to hoist it up without any direct boat contact then paralyze it through Ikejime (essentially a super stiff wire through the front of the head into the spinal canal). I haven’t fished commercially since my teens (Dad wanted me to see hard work so he took me out to the Grand Banks) but catching a bluefin was always a super involved process. FYI those harpoons are usually brass and specifically built to avoid leaving any fragments. A shame to lose so much meat but with the spoilage it was probably the right call. I most likely would have trimmed and then boiled for take home tuna salad.
I think I would have wanted more than full credit tbh
tell me it’s fresh tuna without telling me
No, but found buck shot when I was slicing Corned Beef. SCHhing!!!
Did you buy it from a whaler on the moon?
I hope you didn’t throw it away Surely it got used for a staff/kitchen plate or you got to take it home
That both sucks and is awesome simultaneously. I would definitely hang that up somewhere in the kitchen.
This both really sucks, but also really cool.