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I was writing an email to somebody, and I started a paragraph

I tried goosefish once (a continental-shelf version of anglerfish), and I wasn’t that impressed.

and then continued to write

It felt disappointing after holding this terrifying (although dead) thing in my hands. It sort of shattered my childhood notion that the more deadly seeming an animal is, the tastier and more satisfying to eat it should be.

The thing is, the second part I just made up to make the story more entertaining.

Is it actually more entertaining?

I am pretty sure that if I had actually gone through with my story, and was ever confronted with it again, I’d probably repeat it as if it were truth, and eventually, I might even forget the fact that I had made it up.

And I think it was actually a monkfish.