My Day with a Biiiiig Fishy
The other day I had an assignment that a drew in large crowd of spectators, equipped with cameras, video cameras, cell phone cameras.
It looks like I was covering a celebrity, but it wasn't even a person.
Instead, it was a 400 pound tuna.
Mitsuwa Marketplace, a huge Japanese grocery store, held a tuna carving demonstration - in which this guy, visiting from Japan, cut up the tuna in front an excited crowd.
It was impressive, but I have to wonder about people that video these types of things. Really? Are they sitting at home a few days later, discovering nothing is on television, so they pull out the DVD they've made of a man carving a big tuna?
After the carving the tuna was cut into fillets, which went for $61 a pound. Needless to say, I couldn't afford a sample.
The head of the tuna, was auctioned off for $50.
I have no idea what you do with the head of a 400 pound tuna, but apparently a young guy in the crowd must have. (I would have loved to see that guy's wife's reaction when he got home. "You spent $50 on a WHAT?!")
