Warning: Eat Testicles At Your Own Risk

Timely advice that we all need to heed every now and then, but never more so than when dudes are at death's door after chowing down on some love nuggets:

The group ate raw meat and baked testes of blowfish - known in Japan as fugu - at an upscale restaurant on Monday in Tsuruoka, an old castle town 350 kilometres north of Tokyo.

They were treated at a hospital for numbness in the hands and legs and other symptoms. One of them was in a critical condition yesterday.

Next time you're in Japan, have the Sukiyaki. Speaking of baked testes (I would have spelt it 'testies' personally), how freakin' hot was it in MEL today?