DAE think the things we eat from the sea are weird as shit?

kenotron · 2 years

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.

The_K_Man · 2 years

geoducks...

storander · 2 years

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...

darkreign · 2 years

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.

ProbablyNotToday · 2 years

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 · 2 years

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

nevertheless, delicious.

78fivealive · 2 years

Sea cucumbers

ben-ito · 2 years

The weirdest shit we eat are eggs.

joquarky · 2 years

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.).

ThiZ · 2 years

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 years

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 · 2 years

It all looks more like food than tofu does though

Toolade · 2 years

I just think meat in general is fucking weird.

[deleted] · 2 years

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..

Andrewr05 · 2 years

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

sheerheartattack · 2 years

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.

Culero · 2 years

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

the_onanist · 2 years

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

cknipe · 2 years

What's this "we" stuff?

idyl · 2 years

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

Cenobite · 2 years

It's weird even before it's shit.

wthulhu · 2 years

clams and oysters are like little rocks with salty mushrooms inside

lord_khadow · 2 years

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

JohanNorseman · 2 years

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

Especially the lobsters, break their feet and eat them.

Rthk001 · 2 years

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 · 2 years

Fookin' prawns.

lindseycat · 2 years

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?

meismariah · 2 years

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 · 2 years

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

TearsOfRage · 2 years

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 · 2 years

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 · 2 years

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

[deleted] · 2 years

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.

midbc · 2 years

crabs and clams are fucking disgusting

at least you can deep fry the other things

jonezbonez · 2 years

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

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