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[–]kenotron 14 points15 points ago

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I had lots of uni (sea urchin roe) when I was in Korea. They're pretty hardcore there: they just take a sea urchin straight from the water, slice it in half, and place it on your plate. Then you scoop out the roe with a spoon. Just tastes like salt water, honestly, but it is pretty metal to watch the sucker squirm as you eat its guts.

*edit: also, squid arms are served while still somewhat alive. the little suction cups try to grab on to your tongue while you chew them up. yum.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points ago

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I've eaten those half-alive octopus arms. Still squirming and still VERY suctiony. It's kinda fun until you start thinking about it, then you come to the realization that you are chewing something that is still moving, and it will only stop moving if you pulverize it enough.

Well, I guess that is pretty metal.

Koreans are pretty hardcore about eating... things that were just alive a second ago. I am one so. have eaten a good share of just-alive things.

[–]itzhero 1 point2 points ago

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This may sound weird, but I want to try that.

[–]brianbrianbrian 0 points1 point ago

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Balut

No, not the bear. A duck. In an egg.

[–]i_likeloveCTY_you 0 points1 point ago

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My Vietnamese friend loves that shit. I just can't get over the fact that she's eating an abortion.

[–]brianbrianbrian 0 points1 point ago

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A very late-term abortion. Like, I just felt the baby kick, I'm going to kick it back, oh no it just popped out your vagina late-term.

[–]crno22 9 points10 points ago

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Thank you for reinforcing my vegetarianism.

[–]yumpizza 15 points16 points ago

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Hey now, steak has no suction cups.

[–]notanotherpyr0 3 points4 points ago

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And some vegetarians eat fish.

[–]RebeccaCoolKid 5 points6 points ago

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Which I don't quite get. Fish is still an animal and is still meat. How can someone think it isn't meat?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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People that are vegetarians for health reasons, mostly. For example I almost never eat red meat but I will enjoy some Salmon or Sardines now and then, Crab, Lobster etc. are all fine with me, because I only avoid meat for health reasons.

[–]notanotherpyr0 1 point2 points ago

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Eh for some people its a closeness to humans thing, fish are cold blooded and almost nothing like us. Same reason why the western world frowns on eating monkeys extrapolated a bit further.

[–]phobiac 1 point2 points ago

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It's too tasty to be meat.

[–]travelinghobbit 1 point2 points ago

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They do that in New Zealand with kina (sea urchins) as well. I've found bashed open ones with the roe all gone.

Another big NZ seafood is paua (abalone). It's so tasty, but if you think about it, it's a giant, black FOOT. It'll stick to you like a suction cup as well if you let it while it's alive. Need a knife to pry it off the rock, bugger getting it off your skin!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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My uncle used to be super into scuba diving. I remember he would sometimes bring home like a net of ocean creatures. First time I've ever tried abalone and it's GOOD!

He had a harpoon but he never brought back any harpooned things.

[–]travelinghobbit 0 points1 point ago

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I know! I love it. You aren't allowed to get them with a tank here, so you have to snorkel, hold your breathe and dive. If you do not get your knife under the edge of the shell quickly, you're screwed.

[–]Comoros7 0 points1 point ago

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Hey I'm in Busan right now, unfortunately I really don't like seafood, but what's the hangeul for sea urchin roe / alive octopus (if you remember)?

[–]emkat 1 point2 points ago

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성게 = Sea urchin, pronounced sung-gae

산낙지 - live squid thing - pronounced san nak ji

[–]Comoros7 0 points1 point ago

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thanks

[–]emkat 0 points1 point ago

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oh forgot to mention roe is 알 - pronounced al

[–]The_K_Man 11 points12 points ago

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[–]Killadelphian 2 points3 points ago

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are we supposed to eat that?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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It's a species of Clam, very popular in the American Northwest.

[–]storander 8 points9 points ago

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I would not eat any of those things if they lived on land, and crawled around in the dirt. Somehow them coming from underwater makes it okay...

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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This is very true. Why is that?

[–]notanotherpyr0 2 points3 points ago

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Its more about how we are used to seeing things that are evolved for the air. If you lived in the ocean your whole life you would see a tree and go WTF. Its like a rock but with strange green shit on it. Or carrots, you dig them out of the fucking ground and they are orange for some reason.

[–]storander 1 point2 points ago

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I think, for me at least, just it living underwater makes me associate it with being clean for some reason.

[–]darkreign 14 points15 points ago

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Lots of the things we eat are weird as shit, but they're also delicious, and that's what counts. You see a beautiful creature and you think "I'd like to boil that and put butter on it", and it turned out great.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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I agree, but if I saw something that looked that far removed from the things I see on land, I'm not sure if I would want to eat it. I wouldn't even guess a sea urchin is edible inside!

[–]IronChefJobu 3 points4 points ago

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Have you ever seen a monkfish? Tasty but fucking ugly.

[–]dropkickdog 5 points6 points ago

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That thing will haunt my dreams.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Poor man's lobster. That's what they call it in Seattle.

[–]Morgmeat 1 point2 points ago

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srsly? I've never seen that on any menu I've encountered.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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It's not a regular food, but you can buy it and prepare it yourself.

[–]kaleidingscope 0 points1 point ago

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used to go to the dock and eat it all the time when I was little in yarmouth, i remember loving it

[–]ProbablyNotToday 6 points7 points ago

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Nothing I like more than eating boiled insects from the ocean topped with rotting milk and some more rotting grape juice on the side.

[–]el_phantasmo 6 points7 points ago

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giant insects, or gobs of goop. and it all smells funny.

nevertheless, delicious.

[–]78fivealive 6 points7 points ago

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[–]topsul 3 points4 points ago

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People eat those? We've always just squirted each other with them.

[–]punspinner 7 points8 points ago

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When I was a kid at an aquarium petting zoo, I squeezed a sea cucumber and water came out. Cool. So naturally, I kept squeezing it until water stopped coming out, upon which I found out I wasn't supposed to do that.

[–]emkat 0 points1 point ago

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I like it for the texture, the taste is almost non-existent.

[–]hotsavoryaujus 0 points1 point ago

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It's a lot like jello meat.

[–]Mighty-Tsu 0 points1 point ago

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It's like a mixture between a real penis and a textured vibrator...

[–]ben-ito 5 points6 points ago

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The weirdest shit we eat are eggs.

[–]jatorres 4 points5 points ago

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AGREED

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)

EDIT: Oh, just copy and paste...

[–]OneTrickyPony 6 points7 points ago

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Christ's chapped asscheeks! Why... would you.... Whatever, fucking... Southeast Asians.

Eggs are weird enough as it is when you think about the fact that it comprises a single cell.

[–]Dustmuffins 2 points3 points ago

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NOT ANYMORE!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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I think this will work

edit: Yep.

edit2: Gross, dude.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I think birds are pretty weird too. They're like half reptile and that is not ok.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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Why not go full reptile and eat frog legs? Tastes like chicken rubbed with fish.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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You never go full reptile.

Well I've had gator, it does have that fish-smelling chicken taste plus a creepy kinda off texture. That is why I will never again go full reptile.

[–]kaleidingscope 2 points3 points ago

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he didn't go full reptile though, since frogs aren't reptiles ...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Close enough.

[–]ThisIsAReferenceTo 3 points4 points ago

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Kirk Lazerus's advice, "You never go full retard," in the 2008 movie, Tropic Thunder.

[–]frankdozier 2 points3 points ago

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"You find yourself fartin in bathtubs and laughin"

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Mmmmmm, chicken periods.

[–]BritishEnglishPolice 2 points3 points ago

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They aren't chicken periods.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Also called "chicken periods." That's more or less what eggs are.

[–]ben-ito 0 points1 point ago

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eggs are nothing against this shit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placentophagy

[–]brianbrianbrian 0 points1 point ago

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I read a thing about these rednecks who would cook up biscuits, and basically be like an egg mcmuffin, but with placenta.

[–]joquarky 11 points12 points ago

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Eating bugs that come from water (shrimp, lobster, crabs, etc.) is about as appealing to me as eating bugs on land (beetles, centipedes, spiders, etc.).

[–]quimica 11 points12 points ago

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My husband nearly ruined shrimp for me by calling them "cockroaches of the sea."

[–]boowana 3 points4 points ago

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That is what they are the garbage eaters of the sea

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[–][deleted] 6 points7 points ago

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They are low on the food chain. If a fish has to eat 10 shrimp a day to stay alive, it has 10x as much toxin, then a bigger fish eats 10 of that fish to survive, it has 100x and so on.

[–]iamdmorgan 1 point2 points ago

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I want to ruin them for my girlfriend but she seems unbreakable :/

[–]biwook 0 points1 point ago

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And once peeled they look like a big fat worm. Yummy yummy shrimps!

[–]meeeow 0 points1 point ago

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EW

[–]biwook 0 points1 point ago

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YUM :D

[–]jllunsfo 0 points1 point ago

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nah. lobsters are more evolutionarily similar to roaches than shrimp.

[–]omegasnk 1 point2 points ago

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Agreed. Once you acquire a taste for them, they're all absolutely delicious.

[–]ThiZ 3 points4 points ago

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We HAVE to eat them! Don't you see? It doesn't matter if they're weird or not, the human race HAS to do it's duty to keep down the eldrich horrors that lurk beneath the water's surface. Take up your forks my brothers, for the defense of humanity is dependent upon our seafood linguine.

RAAAAAHH!

[–]Barackattack 2 points3 points ago

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Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If some weird shit from the sea ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!
Don't be a grade A moron.

[–]timmytondall 3 points4 points ago

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It all looks more like food than tofu does though

[–]Toolade 2 points3 points ago

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I just think meat in general is fucking weird.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck

it is not a pokémon. i have neither seen nor eaten this. i would never in a million years eat a geoduck and i was born and live in louisiana. cajuns eat anything, but this is just...too far..

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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it is not a pokémon

No worries, we all know geodude is a rock pokemon.

[–]Andrewr05 1 point2 points ago

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Calamari is absolutely incredible when cooked properly, when not its... uhhhh... horrible...

[–]Paulverizer 0 points1 point ago

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Yeah there's really no inbetween. Oddly enough some of my favorite has been from Cabrerra's, and from a small local place near my town.

[–]sheerheartattack 1 point2 points ago

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I think that this applies more or less to meat in general. It's weird if you think about it, but it's so delicious that it doesn't even matter.

[–]waterweed 0 points1 point ago

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Bah, you think that's weird? I hear in some places they eat the engorged ovaries of otherwise-inedible...things... covered in flaking armor, with horrible, asymmetrically branching limbs. They're not even in the same biological kingdom as us. It's horrible.

[–]LurkingGrue 0 points1 point ago

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But the things of which you speak engorged them for animals to eat in most cases. And animals of only a few mya are the direct ancestors of humans.

[–]Culero 1 point2 points ago

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I despise all that is off the sea. Smells problematic.

[–]the_onanist 2 points3 points ago

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Compared to what? If all you ever ate was seafood, you would think land animals were weird.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Well. We live on land so I am going by that. Sea animals are comparatively stranger because... we exist in the same world as land animals.

[–]murphymurphy 2 points3 points ago

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Thats why humans are so tasty to sharks. We can surf, swim, boat and shit, taunting them while they are stuck in the ocean. Think Ariel from the Little Mermaid. They eat us because we don't belong there and we eat them because we have fishing hooks and fire.

[–]cknipe 1 point2 points ago

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What's this "we" stuff?

[–]emkat 0 points1 point ago

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Normal Humans

[–]thiskittensgotclaws 0 points1 point ago

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I don't eat sea-spiders either...or any other animals for that matter. But, especially no sea-spiders.

[–]idyl 1 point2 points ago

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And this is why I don't eat things from the sea.

[–]Cenobite 0 points1 point ago

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It's weird even before it's shit.

[–]wthulhu 0 points1 point ago

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clams and oysters are like little rocks with salty mushrooms inside

[–]lord_khadow 0 points1 point ago

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Things from the sea are also as tasty as shit! :D

[–]JohanNorseman 0 points1 point ago

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It's a hard life living under water give them a break.

Especially the lobsters, break their feet and eat them.

[–]Rthk001 0 points1 point ago

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If you think seafood is weird, here are some weirder land-living creatures eaten in Asia: this, this, this and this. (I live in Asia but never tried any of these!)

[–]socratessue 0 points1 point ago

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Fookin' prawns.

[–]lindseycat 0 points1 point ago

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You are floating in the ocean on a raft, your feet are dangling over the egg. You feel someone bite your toe. Not like a shark, but a nibble. What is it?

[–]notanotherpyr0 2 points3 points ago

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Quit dangling over an egg, they are fragile enough.

[–]meismariah 0 points1 point ago

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Personally beign a sailor and growing up in long island sound I love how they look :) reminds me of when I was at an aquarium with my rents and lil bro and we were commenting on how pretty the fish were and then how much we wanted to eat them or how delicious they were.

[–]blohkdu 0 points1 point ago

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My friend and I just refer to seafood as monsters, i.e. "Big bowl of monsters" for squid stew.

[–]TearsOfRage 0 points1 point ago

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Shrimp are pretty much just a protein substrate for various sauces. By the time I get them, they might as well be chunks of fish meat even though the texture is a little different.

Otherwise, you're right.

[–]Cataclismic 0 points1 point ago

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It's because just about everything in the sea is either as cute as pure fuzz or weird as shit. And I see no-one about to eat no belunga whale.

[–]TheSOB88 0 points1 point ago

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I love crustaceans, man. Some day, I'm gonna have a 500-gallon tank full of nothing but mantis shrimp and... other crustaceans.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I had the opposite haha. A smaller tank with little plants and itty bitty freshwater shrimp. These things are less than an inch long and come in a bunch of colors. It got pretty boring.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I'm pretty sure the entire reason we ever found them edible was that one day Ugg said to Cluq that he'd bet ten stones he could kill and eat that mean, nasty looking thing over there.

Ugg won that bet, and went on to become the worlds first prehistoric sushi chef. He would later go on to die of Pufferfish and Jellyfish poisoning when trying to concoct the most amazingly badass dish known to prehistoric man.

[–][deleted] -4 points-3 points ago

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crabs and clams are fucking disgusting

at least you can deep fry the other things

[–]midbc 2 points3 points ago

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but you can deep fry crabs and clams

[–]Rthk001 1 point2 points ago

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Deep Fried Stuffed Crab Claws is a famous dishes in a chinese banquet.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points ago

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HAHAHAHA

[–]jonezbonez -2 points-1 points ago

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Yeah, the U.S. eats this stuff like crazy but scoffs at eating insects like a lot of other nations do.

[–]pissysissy 0 points1 point ago

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I'd eat insects, but you just don't see Hibachi Cricket in the US. There is a lot of protein in insects and they are abundant as hell. Won't eat a spider though. Nope.

[–]brianbrianbrian 1 point2 points ago

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[–]pissysissy 1 point2 points ago

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Cats are awesome. Is that in Rome?