In One Ear: Googly eyes

Published 12:15 am Thursday, November 30, 2023

Ear: Fishy

Eye-catching rerun: A fish market in Kuwait was closed down recently for trying to make their fish look flipping fresh by putting plastic googly eyes over their not-so-fresh looking real peepers, BBC.com reports.

The ruse was discovered when a video of the faulty fish made the rounds on WhatsApp. Then photos of the plastic eyes falling off turned up all over social media, and were picked up by the newspaper Al Bayan. The photo shown is from Al Bayan’s Twitter feed, @bayan_kw.

One Twitter poster, @MatthewJDalby, quipped: “Never judge the freshness of fish by the googliness of their eyes.”

Kuwait seems to be a hotbed of fishy fraud. In July, a fishmonger put steel nails in his fish to make them heavier, therefore more valuable. What’s next? (In One Ear, 9/7/2018)

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