Cruise secrets: Ship doctor reveals disgusting food trick used by chefs on cruises

The doctor remembered his fellow worker saying: “Too little poison and you don’t get the tingle.

“Too much and you die. Apparently, the rich passengers love that kind of thing.”

In fact, if someone eats the poisonous part of a puffer fish they will feel numbness around the mouth, then paralysis and eventually death by respiratory failure – while remaining conscious throughout.

Of course, Macfarlane’s cruise was not going to take the risk of putting their holidaymakers’ lives in such danger.

So the chefs came up with an ingenious way to fool them while also giving them want they want – but it’s a pretty disgusting trick.