Nothing could possibly be more unsettling than having your food smile back at you.
A lady within the Philippines nearly lost her lunch after she bought a fish to eat, only to find that it had teeth so “human-like” it looked prefer it had dentures.
“I went to the market, among the finest markets here in Bacolod City,” Maria Christina Cusi told Viral Press of her smirking seafood.
“I purchased fish for our house — different sorts of fish — and I had this one fish that I took home to begin cleansing,” she continued. “But once I cut the fish I used to be freaked out by its human-like teeth.”
She’d reportedly purchased the bighead carp — a freshwater fish, locally called Imelda, that’s a staple of stews and other dishes throughout its native territory of East Asia — in Bacolod City on July 24.
Unfortunately, Cusi’s dreams of a effective fish meal went out the window after she sliced open the plankton eater and discovered that it had a set of gnashers that looked similar to an individual’s.
“The teeth were all attached to the mouth of the fish,” recalled the girl, who pressed and poked the chompers to verify they were a part of the beast.
Accompanying footage shows the carp’s dentistry, with its teeth jutting down like a fish that had been dosed with the Joker’s laughing gas from Batman.
Concerned that the critter could be hazardous to her health, Cusi tossed the carp — which was price around $4 — away.
The carp tooth caper has not yet been solved.
Interestingly, these largely toothless grazers do possess snack slicers called pharyngeal teeth towards their throat, and never up front like what appears to be depicted within the clip.
This isn’t the primary time a fish has possessed seemingly human mandibles.
Other notable people-toothed fish include the Pacu, an invader within the US that hails from South America, the sheepshead fish, and the pufferfish, which is thought for puffing up like a parade balloon when threatened.
Three years ago, a triggerfish made a splash online as a consequence of its bizarre, human-like lips and teeth, which resembled an Instagram star’s filler-plumped pout.
