Word: puffer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world's oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition. There, though its poison kills 200 victims per year, its flesh sends gourmets into philosophical ecstasies. They get a particular kick from knowing they are playing a kind of gustatory Russian roulette...
...American puffer fish, which are also poisonous, are sold as "sea squab" or under some other euphemistic name. Only the back flesh is cut free; the dangerous remainder of the fish is discarded...