Luckily our chunk of wild striped bass, which shared the plate with slices of roasted sunchoke and an herbed green sauce, was well-timed, the firm flesh breaking into glossy segments at the touch of a fork.
It continued: "Come with me and visit mothers of dead, injured, gone children — thousands of them — and tell them how you didn't know we supplied the weapons that ripped flesh, broke bones, destroyed lives, destroyed lives".
Since the flesh is not developed, cooking the flesh breaks it into powder, which is then fried in oil and spices (called sora puttu/sora poratu).
This path of travel — considered highly unlikely by critics of the single-bullet theory — means CE 399 went through the bodies of two adult men, tore through about 15 inches of human flesh, broke two bones and punctured 15 different layers of clothing.
If the spines puncture flesh, they break off and leave painful fragments in the skin along with their chemical weapon.
"With stone tools in hand to quickly pull off flesh and break open bones, animal carcasses would have become a more attractive source for food," he said.
Cooking onions is a task worth taking your time over - 10 minutes just isn't long enough to get their crisp, watery flesh to break down into layers of honey-toned sweetness.
The men cleaned Tashi's body of ash, cut up the flesh, and broke the bones to facilitate consumption.
The accident lacerated flesh and broke bones, and he required mechanical ventilation in a trauma center before eventually recovering.
And though soccer is a sport in which the tearing of flesh and breaking of bone are accepted occupational hazards, the fallout this time appears cruelly excessive.
