Nobody cares about your fillet job until there’s a fish spine sticking out of their neck.⁠ ⁠ Sang Lan, a woman from Thailand, made a homemade fish soup. During the dining experience, she felt a fish bone slip down her throat. This apparently didn’t initially bother her as it was a common occurrence. Even when she felt the bone lodge in place she wasn’t concerned, assuming it would eventually work itself free. In most cases, a fish bone that gets ingested is going to be very small, usually a pin bone or very small rib bone. These are soft enough that your stomach acid will dissolve them, which is why fish pieces that go into a pickling brine with bones intact wind up bone-free by the time you’re ready to put them on a cracker. If you were to eat a whole-fried fish and accidentally get a large rib in your mouth, most of the time you’re going to know it. It seems Sang Lan had one critical issue working against her. Her fish soup featured a catfish species called Pla Kayaeng and an eel cal...