Two very different trip reports

what is this worm?

Lambada said:

Both from UK newspapers: the first some nice writing
A taste of the tropical: The Dominican Republic revealed - Americas, Travel - The Independent

The second a horror story:
Holidaymaker who went blind after biting into black worm in dinner wins ?240,000 payout | Mail Online

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i guess the jury or whomever... and who was that? --- decided that the kitchen could have known that there was a worm inside the fish.but HOW?

I once got very very sick from a Caribbean lobster... but it looked and tasted fine. And is there not this thing called cingatura or something that is inside tropical fish in the summer? how are we to know?

what was this worm- and why did she not see it when she cut a piece off the fish, or did she just bite the whole fish in half

It must be the worm that fell out of my bottle of mescal.

I've been looking everywhere.

mountainannie said:

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I once got very very sick from a Caribbean lobster... but it looked and tasted fine. And is there not this thing called cingatura or something that is inside tropical fish in the summer? how are we to know?

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Its Ciguatera usually gotten from eating fish living around reef. The only times I've heard of some one getting it was from eating "junk" fish like barracuda that cruise reefs for prey. I know people living in the Carib. that will not eat fish out because they dont trust what kind of fish is really being served, but I've been traveling in Carib. for many years eaten alot of fish both out and home cooked and never got sick.

Was on St. Thomas back some years ago when a freighter called in a rescue because the entire crew had eaten some fish they caught and were extremely sick from Ciguatera, only a lowly mate still vertical, they helicoptered a captain on board. Met a guy that had Ciguatera and he said it was extremely nasty and lasted a long time. Not sure if you could have gotten that from eating lobster but I guess possible if it ate some mollusk that filtered the toxin that causes it. But its not your garden variety food poisoning that's for sure.

It accumulates up the food chain, thats why you don't eat the higher level predators, like barracuda. The old saying was you don't eat fish in the months without an R, as the toxin was more prevalent in the warmer waters.

"Both from UK newspapers: the first some nice writing" - I would disagree - more like the usual rubbish you get in the Daily Mail or Daily Express - I would expected a bit better from the Independent.