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Barney lights a cup of sake, flavored with fugu (pieces of the skin), and burns off some excess alcohol

My grilled fugu

A Tokutomi fugu (2006)

A pot to cook many more pieces of the fish

Remains of my fugu (lots of cartilage, but the meat was very tender)

Toku's fugu
(in briar, of course, but parts of it look like clay)