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So you end up with chowder pretty much.
I can't tell from the video if the water is just muddy or if it's actually, y'know, gross. Is it safe to eat the fish from that river?
Also, I'd always heard they didn't do that unless they were starving. Which makes me think not much is surviving in that water, making me think it might not be safe to eat the fish :/
Though, I imagine if you're desperate for protein, such things are secondary concerns at best
Brazilian here. Perfectly safe (color-wise; of course it can be polluted as hell despite its color, just like any other river).
Our ground/mud has a different color. Some areas on the south even have a red soil (very fertile, but makes everything about ground level look dirty very quickly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_soil
There's great variety of water colors even in the same area, just search for images "meeting of the waters Manaus":
They're almost certainly starved. Piranha's don't normally swarm like this
But that’s what the cartoons showed.
Ok Now you have a bucket of piranhas. ?
Piranhas have dozens of uses. Food, bait, aesthetics/decor, pranks, weapons of surprise, scissors, evil lairs…
Pranks !? 💀☠️
Surprise scissors are my favorite kind of scissors
Step 1: Collect a bucket of piranhas
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit
It's a great threat
also it's food
Good source of nutrition 🤤
Ok, so why would anyone want to catch a piranha? Are they tasty or something?
So much so that they're illegal to fish in parts of the Amazon because they've been nearly fished out of existence
They taste like fish. I'm not joking.
You must be joking.
Fish are food, not friends
They look like they are 90% gristle and hatred.
The Ann Coulter of fishes.
Wikipedia claims they're quite popular.
Reading more, everything I see describes them as bony, salty and very fishy tasting, best served smoked or grilled to mask the flavor.
Sounds like we’re not missing much.
Protein is protein and if this is where someone needs to get it, then this is what it will be
You can get protein from lettuce and apples lol
Sounds like why I dislike most fish to begin with.
It's that fishy taste that does it to me
Just cant pretend to like it at all
That's interesting, I really like the fishy taste. If it's overpowering it can be unpleasant, but in reasonably amounts it's tasty.
Do you also lick buttholes?
The one that I tasted was the red piranha, the same as in the video. The taste is... okay, not delectable but not awful; it's simply a bit too strong. It goes great on soups/stews though.
What about barefoot! Those Brazilians are crazy lol
As long as you're not bleeding or anything, you could safely jump in the water and swim with them!
Idk man
I don't think I'd want to risk being shredded alive the moment I scrape my toe on a rock
Piranhas aren't even the scariest thing in there
There it is, the fish we joke swims up your dick.
you could safely jump in the water and swim with them!
But I can't swim
you could safely jump in the water ~~and swim~~ with them!
But after that...
Well, they find out if they're a witch or not.
Just don't bleed while drowning so you don't die.
Damn, and I thought I was smart for making stock from bones
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