In a response to the Waste Not Want Not blog entry, Timmy inquired how many Maguro Goma Tataki salads he could eat for the price of President Bush’s trip to Iraq? With a little simple math, the number was easily computed and it turns out he could devour over 107,800 salads!
Out of sheer boredom, I wondered how many tuna it would take to make the 100,000+ salads??? I believe the salad uses seared spicy Ahi tuna. Ahi refers to two species of tuna, Bigeye (Thunnus obesus) and Yellowfin (Thunnus albacares). Based on current statistics, the average Bigeye weighs 33 to 44 pounds. The average Yellowfin tuna currently weights between 11 and 44 pounds. However, tuna weighing about 100 pounds are preferred. Since 100 pound fish are favored we will assume all the tuna served at Sushi Neko derive from 100 pound tuna. Ahi tuna yields about 65% edible meat. However, in Timmy’s case, it is probably closer to 90% - but we won’t go there. So, this means the average tuna produces about 65 pounds of editable flesh. Assuming the salad is composed of mixed greens and 8 ounces of tuna, this means we get 130 salads from a tuna. Thus we can easily compute one would need approximately 829 tuna to serve up 107,800 Maguro Goma Tataki salads.
4 comments:
If he knew the average number of tuna caught in the average net, an enterprising Democrat with a lot of time on his hands could then determine how many dolphins had to die so Bush could make his trip. Al Franken, where are you when we need you?
Hmmm....Let see,
In 1980, 15,305 dolphins where killed for every 231,617,000 pounds of Yellowfin caught...oh, hell, someone else do the math!
HHHHmmmmmm..Dolphin. yummmy.
See if it comes from the water Timmy will eat it, dolphin or otherwise.
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