London – Student Jessica Taylor was shocked to see her late-night gefilte fish snack light up the kitchen of her north London family home by glowing bright green and yellow. Her mother had bought the Hoffman’s product the previous day at Moshe’s Deli in Temple Fortune.
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Joff Taylor, Jessica’s father, said: “My daughter came home at two or three in the morning and was starving. She did not put on the kitchen light, took out the fish and closed the fridge.
“The fish was glowing very brightly so she took it out of the pack and held it in her hands. When she put it down, her hands were glowing.”
Suspicious of Jessica’s claim, Mr Taylor and his wife asked her to recreate the scene the following evening. “We turned off the lights and she brought the fish out. We all stood there amazed. It was brighter than a glow-stick.”
The Taylors opted not to eat the fluorescent fish, which was not beyond its use-by date, and threw it away.
A Moshe’s spokesman said: “Sometimes the fish eat some phosphorus and it glows. It’s good for you. We’re not the manufacturer, we just sell it.”
Geeta Cohli, a consultant to Hoffman’s Foods, said the company had received no complaints from customers. “The family should have kept the fish as evidence. We would have done some tests. I’m a qualified micro-biologist and I have never heard of this. I think it was an act of God.”
A Food Standards Agency spokeswoman attributed the glowing fish to luminescent bacteria which occur naturally in sea water.
“Most luminescent bacteria are harmless but their presence may indicate that other, harmful bacteria are also present through cross-contamination with other uncooked products. We would advise that the fish should not be consumed.”
did it talk?
“I’m a qualified micro-biologist and I have never heard of this. I think it was an act of God.”
is this because somebody wants publicity during Aseres Yimei Teshuva….what’s next my Shobbos chicken soup will do the chicken dance…don’t kid yourself…every week somebody tries to think of a new publicity stunt…remember the lady who claimed she had a dibbuk in her…another one said that their fish talked….another one said they saw a mermaid in Eretz Yisroe-l….another one claimed they saw Rochel Imeinu in Eretz Yisroe-l…if you can think of more of these stories, please post them as me and my family can get a good laugh…thanks….have a wonderful Shobbos and stay well….and to all Gut Gebentched Yur….
sounds like the talking fish story
Big deal here in New Square our fish can actually speak so we are not shocked
Wow i am scared 2 eat gefilte
Someone must have got it wrong….
and it’s not Kepurim– not purim!!! lol
Gemar Chesema Tova
this is a extreamly FISHY story
the fish was imported from new square
sounds like a job for… Agent Emes! in the new episode “case of the glowing gefilte fish” in this episode, the nefarious doctor lo-tov puts nuclear material in the gefilte fish of the taylor family, in hopes of making them to sick to go to shul on yom kippur! until agent emes steps in…
Sounds fishy. If it was real they would have kept it and put in on Ebay.
Only in America do fish speak Yiddish!
I guess it wasn’t G’filtered properly.
Gefilte fish is made from fresh water fish like pike and whiefish which are low in phosphrous, not ocean fish which are high in phosphorous. Sounds more like chemical contamination.
first of all the talking fish of new square was a karp. secondly I ate at the Kupermans in New Square who owned the fish shop where the incident took place. No one is saying that you have to believe these stories however the fact that we come across them is hashgacha pratis and there is something to learn from it.
I wonder if they would have glowed if they ate it? This is so stupid. If it was true why didn’t the family keep it to back up their fishy tail (tale.)
You know what’s really stupid? We’re all commenting on this.
this probebly was a chemical reaction
Youve ALL made my day, hilarious talkbacks. MUCH better than the article. a gitte qvittel to us all
talkbacks superb. a gitte kvittel to us all
Many years ago in Australia, I find the gefilte fish “glowing” and did some research and found out that some of the fish used are deep sea fish which produce their own Phosphorus(( because they live deep under the sea and there is not enough light from the sun) If the skin is not cleaned perfectly some of the phosphorus can get in the mixture of the gefilte fish.
WeLl my choulent has been glowing for de cats
What I don’t understand is how that fish swam into the sewage system of Mea Sharim! As ussual for the neighborhood, there was an overflow of sewage comming out of one of the manholes, and making a mess of the street. But then to the shock of everyone, a glowing gefilte fish swam out. I saw some of the neighborhood kids trying to catch it, but then after screaming out: “I’m not getting my tikun here”, the fish darted back into the manhole and dissappeared.
Why is this so hard to understand. Our shabbos foods are full of kedusha. Finally, a yid was zoicha to be able to see the kedusha shining through, not just paying lip service as you eat it.
This Gefilte Fish that glows is probly from the same family of Gefilte Fish that bites.
Glowing seafoods are nothing new! See http://www.glowprawns.co.uk