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DNA tests on sushi from four restaurants found that two of the eateries have been selling mislabeled sushi, such as cheap tilapia passed off as expensive white tuna, the Times reports. Six out of ten grocery stores tested have also been passing the phony fish – and they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for a couple of curious high school seniors, who spent about $300 collecting samples and sending them off to a lab for "DNA bar code" analysis. And ersatz sushi sellers better get used to this sort of thing; one kid’s father, a scientist, predicts that soon a handheld device could perform a quick analysis and connect to a DNA database remotely to check the species’ authenticity!
Meddling Kids Expose Phony Sushi Labeling
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Ah, poor closeted Freddie...
Technology has come a long way. This DNA stuff is awesome. This guy predicts a handheld device that that checks species authenticity. Hey man, forget that. I need a hand held device that checks the authenticity of my girlfriend's fidelity or maybe even something that detects STD's. Lets get that out to these meddling kids.
Science rules!
"one kid’s father, a scientist, predicts that soon a handheld device could perform a quick analysis and connect to a DNA database remotely to check the species’ authenticity!"
ethan hawke is not happy.
why isn't ethan hawk happy?
Because he's not the man we think he is at home. Oh no, no, no.
This sophisticated research was conducted by two young women who were high school seniors at the time. Bravo!
Obscure reference, zodak. Great one though!
lol oh this is very cool! thanks kids!! :-) Who were the restaurants? were they those Chinese-Italian-Japanese restaurants rolled into one?
Think that's a reference to 1997's Gattaca.
gattaca
No love for the mangy mutt?
Praise science for discriminating foodstuffs our palates couldn't tell apart.
hey #2, welcome to the future.
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/kt100.html
EW.
jinkies!!!!
If you're really brave have a pathologist identify the organ types in the baloney or hot dog you're eating.
Hmmmmm....colon!
Zoinks!
Eating organ types is cool. If only hot dogs had more tripe in it. Headcheese rules the world.
Great work by these young ladies!
i like the fact that people can't even tell what kind of raw rotting fish flesh they are eating. "Hey, I just paid 50 bucks for some white tuna and it tasted great! Oh, it's Tilapia? well, then it tasted like shit!"
Yes, but are the tape worms in the sushi authentic?
"It involved shopping and eating, in which they were already fluent."
Hahahaha
Soon we shall know if that was really chicken.
From a long line of meddlesome kids from Nancy Drew to the Bloodhound Gang. Nice jobs kids! You saved Grandpa's fish store!
Re: Zodak
lol, The Tilapia is a "borrowed ladder".
In Japanese, 'sushi' means 'dumb fuck'.
Who else but a dumb fuck pays to eats raw fish and hot wine.