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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: happybirthdaygelatin on 12 Oct 2005, 12:34
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First off this new section name and marine animals thread made me hungry!
Fish and other animals from the waters of our planet are quite scrumptious. Honestly I don't think I have any specific favourite kinds or receipes other then I actually like it cooked or uncooked in a way that I can still the taste the "fishyness."
I'd suggest Halibut to those that don't care for the "fishy" taste as it's least strongest but as a bottom feeder it has potential I've heard to pick up more mercury. Various types of sharks are quite tasty in a different sort of way as well, though I almost never eat it (only have a couple of times!)
I'm curious about mahi mahi. Any opinions from anyone that has had it?
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I love seafood. My mom used to fry flounders I would catch in the Sound. My sister though; like, we would go to this awesome lobster place for dinner, and she would order steak. WTF?!
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I hate fish. Does that mean I'm not allowed to post here?
Maybe I should fake it.
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AHAHAHHAHAA I'M JUST KIDDING.
I LOVE FISH.
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I like fish but really only if it is caught by somebody else and already dead and prepared for me, I really love sushi
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I hardly ever eat fish. Mostly every place around here is hocking "grouper", which I guess is some kind of fish that doesn't sound terribly delicious to me. I hear shark is delicious, but also expensive. They take the fin and make a soup, is that right? Can somebody describe shark in terms of the five flavours?
Maybe there should be a food forum or a recipe thread or something.
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Sushi is ok i spose. I like the kind with no fish in it best though haha. I lovvveeee crab legs, shrimp and lobster too. SOOO GOOD!!!! Seriously, I Like Fish.
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Oh man, I could live all day on sushi and mashed potatoes. (they're two of my fave foods). Tuna, dragon, california, any other kind of weird name for bastardized sushi is ok in my book. Maki, or mmmmmmmmmmaki?
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Maybe there should be a food forum
What a delectable idea! Incidentally, I think you're supposed to spell it like the bird, not like, well, me.
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Smoked salmon is amazingly good. Hell, fish in itself is good.
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I think I prefer to catch fish than eat them, but yeah. fish meat is for yes.
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Grouper is one of those fish I'd not like to remember the apperance (http://www.unreeldestin.com/gallery/grouper-bigone.jpg) of while I was eating it. Shark is delicious and indeed pretty expensive. The fin is used in soup, though a quick google shows the first few pages that show up are mostly against people doing this. This receipe sounds tasty but sans MSG. (http://www.yutopian.com/cooking/soup/CSF.html)
I'm also curious as to fishhead soup, though kind of disapointingly I've heard that after cooking the meat out of the head it is removed from the soup.
Joe: Is seafood a large part of Korean food? (I've been curious about Korean food). Also as much as I like seafood I don't care for crab and lobster all that much.
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Seafood is eaten pretty widely, although not as much as other nearby countries (ie. more than here, less than Japan.) And of course it varies by area; in Pusan, on the southern tip, fish with rice is pretty much all anybody ever eats.
My favorite Korean seafood dish is a rice porridge made with abolone called jumbok jook. It's a pretty malleable dish; another popular variant is hobak jook, which uses pumpkin instead of abolone.
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I imagine it must be that way. Good food comes from people cherishing whatever ingredient they have to work with and drawring out its potential. Look at, like, cajun food.
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You know, I must be the only person who is more or less indifferent to fish. Okay, in sushi, I love it. In "western" food, however, I could live with or without. Other seafood, I loathe with all my heart. I mean, some of the most disgusting creatures on Earth live in the sea, dammit. And we eat some of them.
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I've been really curious and wanting to try abolone ever since I've had limpets. I imagine they're similar.
That's a good point about what people working with what they have. The tribe I'm a member of has a plethora of songs just about salmon.
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I can't bring myself to even try sushi. The one time I've been offered it I couldn't get past the smell. It might have been off of course. Does it go off?
I like battered cod, personally. Drizzled with a bit of lemon, and accompanied with chips. Pub style, unless it's a really good chippy. Hmmm hmm. Also, scampi, and prawns, although I am not allowed to eat those when we go out as a family, because my sister is a vegetarian and she gets kinda sick when I pull their little heads off.
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I like fish, but not to eat!
(http://adactio.com/galleries/dublin_and_cork/09sad_fish.jpg)
Seriously at the market, they had so many fish, and they all looked so sad, probably brcause they were dead and not eaten yet. I don't think I would be happy either, but the severed pig heads were all smiling and they didn't even know which foot was theirs, and their rumps were vastly underpriced. So maybe those fish just need to suck it up.
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"Sushi? Where I'm from, they call this bait!"
I always hated those commercials. Anyway, I'm a pretty big fan of fish. Flounder is a winner with me, but even those processed tenderloins from Gorton's are worth eating too.
And with ranch dressing. Mmm.
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You are missing out if you don't try sushi. It doesn't have a bad odour in my experience, so you may have just been offered sub-par, or even off, sushi.
Try it, you'll love it!
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Does it come with chips?
I am distrustful of foodstuffs that cannot be served accompanied by some form of potato.
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I can't bring myself to even try sushi. The one time I've been offered it I couldn't get past the smell. It might have been off of course. Does it go off?
Yeah, there shouldn't be any smell.
That's the rule of thumb with seafood: if the fish smells, it has gone bad. There are exceptions of course, but in general the characteritic "fishy" smell is characteristic of rotting fish.
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I like battered cod, personally. Drizzled with a bit of lemon, and accompanied with chips. Pub style, unless it's a really good chippy. Hmmm hmm.
Drat, that sounds really good, though I tend to go heavy on the malted vinegar.
That's sort of a good rule of thumb for most food but not in all cases.
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Does it come with chips?
Well, I guess there's no reason why it couldn't…
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Sushi with chips? I bet you also put sugar in green tea.
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Nope.
I don't drink green tea. I drink black tea with milk and sugar. When I drink tea. Which is not often. Though I could really do with some tea right now, I may make a pot.
I do drink Jasmine tea sometimes actually...I suppose that counts as green tea?
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Man, now you buggers made me think of fish and chips. Mmm... fish and chips...
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Ooooooh yess....fish and bloody chips! Drowning in salt and vinegar please.
Hmmm...I'm not much of a seafood connoisseur but i absolutely adore squid. I also really want to try lobster but i don't think i could ever afford.
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To join in a little late on the fresh fish thing, fresh fish should not smell like fish. Also, if you are buying the fish whole, it should have clear eyes, have firm skin that springs back when you touch it, the scales shouldn't come off when you rib the fish the wrong way, and the gills shoud be pink or red. In my food prep class, when we had 3 fresh salmon, I tried to smell them to see what a fresh fish should smell like, it smells kind of oceany, I think. (This is why I LOVE being a Culinary Arts student. I feel so smart in conversations like this!)
Also, fun thing to do with fish...
Take one salmon fillet. I suppose that you could use any other kind of fish if you arn't a huge salmon fan. Take one sheet of parchment paper, fold in half, cut into half heart shape. Unfold, now you have a heart. How pretty. Anyways, smother one side of the paper with melted butter. This is so the paper doesn't light on fire in the over. Place salmon on one side of the heart. Place spices and herbs etc with the fish (For the record, putting a bay leaf under the salmon, putting rosemary and also some really thin, peeled lemon slices on the fish tastes GREAT). Fold heart in half agian, with the fish still inside. Fold over the edges to that during cooking, it will not open. This is important, because the fish will basically be steaming in there, and the paper will look like a balloon when you're done cooking it. Butter the outside of the heart, agian, if you dont, you will have a fire. You place the half heart in the oven, on a pan. Cook until done, I forget exactly how long, but when you think it should be done, cut a whole in the paper, and if the fish flakes easily (not falling apart, just easily flaked) its done. Yummy. Plus, when you open the heart, it smells awsome.
Another great thing about being in Culinary Arts is that we get to eat our food. Yum.
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It's all about the chamomile tea.
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I had some excellent tea recently. I think it was called Chocolate Caramel Chai (weird, I know).
Hey, Khar (and all subsequent people who posted "mmm fish and chips!"), we would be really screwed if Colón hadn't brought the potato back from the Americas, wouldn't we?...
Prawns are my favourite. I am quite fond of prawns with rice and jasmine tea. Eaten with chopsticks, of course.
Also, don't ever go to China and order turtle soup. You will be slightly unnerved to find a bowl of something resembling wanton soup accompanied by a whole, cooked, shelled turtle carcass floating in it. It's a delicacy, if I remember correctly...
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Yum to everything but the turtle soup. Well, maybe not but I don't know, did you try it?
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Appantly turtle meat is actually really delicious. I've never tried it.
I can see how that soup would be unappetizing, though. Nothing says guilt trip like "NOT ONLY DID WE KILL A TURTLE BUT WE LEFT THE BODY IN TACT SO YOU KNOW IT WAS TOTALLY ALIVE AND KICKING ONCE LOL"
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Eh, I've eaten worse. Like the camping trip where we brought live chickens for dinner. Or, to relate to the topic (and to the question about Korean seafood,) I've eaten fresh octopus where I picked the thing out of a tank, the guy threw it onto my plate and chopped it up right in front of me, and then pieces were still wriggling as they went down my throat. Mmm!
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Maybe there should be a food forum or a recipe thread or something.
I started a recipe exchange thread last week or the week before in "Don't Be Stupid". I thought it was a good idea and I was really hoping it would take off, but it didn't. But if somebody would like to try again that would be just dandy!
EDIT: Also, when I was in Sweden I saw the salmon swimming up river, doing the whole jumping-up-rapids bit and everything. Inspired,the next day I went out and bought some gravlax. Does this make me a bad person? Or just a person who likes to eat salmon?
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my cousin is road tripping/writing a book in a blog. her last entry is from kentucky, where a guy found out she'd never had turtle soup.
"Y’e’er had turtle? Oh, mayn! A turtle’s got ‘bout se’en differn’t flavors on it! Dependin’ on what part ya eat, ya got chicken, fish, steak, porkchop, bacon, an’ burger!"
"Joe, that’s only six."
"Ah know! The other’s flavor’s the turtle!"
He gave me a verbal crash course on how to make the soup. "Ya get ya a turtle, cut the head off an’ stick a garden hose in the throat, raht? Then ya fill it wit’ water and wait for it ta’ bust out the shell! Or ya could just cut the belly an’ do it that way, but the hose way is more fun!"
"You know, I really don’t need to know how to make it." I said. "I’m not much of a cook."
"Ya shore?"
"Positive."
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You know, I must be the only person who is more or less indifferent to fish. Okay, in sushi, I love it. In "western" food, however, I could live with or without. Other seafood, I loathe with all my heart. I mean, some of the most disgusting creatures on Earth live in the sea, dammit. And we eat some of them.
I agree. Boo to the fish! Except dolphins, pass me the sweet center of the brain!</futurama>
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Does it come with chips?
I am distrustful of foodstuffs that cannot be served accompanied by some form of potato.
Holy crap, that is what I've been thinking all these years and I did not even know it! Revelations!
The other day, I had some sushi from Wild Oats (Trader Joes rip-off) and it was maybe the worst thing ever. It was made with stale brown rice, and spice tuna that was basically the tuna, a glob of mayonaise, and some chili powder sprinkled on it. Also, it had avacodo on it. The rules are no avacodo on sushi and no California rolls ever at all. Seriously, more sushi needs to be traditional. Americanized sushi is teh suxxorz. Usually.
Speaking of traditional sushi, if you are ever in LA, go to Echigo. It is the best sushi you will ever dine upon.
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For the record, sushi doesn't have to contain any fish, raw or otherwise. Sushi is defined by the variety/preparation of rice.
I'm a fan of most types of seafood. Salmon, tuna and tilapia are usually pretty good as far as fish goes. There's a Vietnamese restaurant here that used to prepare "halibut in clay pot" that was sooooooo good, but now they only make it with catfish, which I find too slimey/boney for my taste.
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hmm, I don't particularly dig fish that tastes fishy, but I like alot of fish stuff I suppose, lets see, crab legs are yummy, lobster is yummy, shrimp is good, some sushi is definately tasty, eel sushi, mmmm eelalicious
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Shrimp is AWESOME, but my school managed to mess it up today...they made breaded shrimp when they said it would be popcorn, so most of the shrimp was falling out of its breading, making it look pretty unappetizing. To make it worse, the shrimp itself tasted like tap water.
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Also oysters, mussels, and other organisms (http://home.datacomm.ch/renebu/cuddlefish.jpg) found in the phylum mollusca.
crab legs
Sweet leaping Jesus! I can't believe I left those out! I am a really really way big fan of crab meat mixed with garlic and lemon. *shudder*
Lobster (http://www.mainelobstershop.com/lobster.jpg) ist auch sehr gut, but crab is better.
Insert stoopid crabs joke here STDS HURR HURR HURR
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Nope.
I don't drink green tea. I drink black tea with milk and sugar. When I drink tea. Which is not often. Though I could really do with some tea right now, I may make a pot.
I do drink Jasmine tea sometimes actually...I suppose that counts as green tea?
I work in a coffee/tea shop, and all the jasmine-scented teas we carry are green. I suppose you could scent a black tea with jasmine, but I'm not sure it would taste very good.
I'm not a big tea guy (I'm definitely more into coffee), but my favorite type is actually Oolong tea, which is basically a tea that is stopped halfway between the process of making it a black tea from a green tea.
I'm pretty sure that you can't find those everywhere though.
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I realize that the worst part is that despite my previous statement, there is some fish that I really do like. Such as tuna. Tuna on everything! Mmm... tuna...
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Look, Blue swimmer crabs are the best and nothing will top that (excludiing prawns (not shrimps....) and SA lobster (too expensive and cant catch them off my jetty). Especially when you catch them and then boil them up the next day for a feast.
MMM
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I love me some Alaskan king crab, but it's too expensive for me most of the time.
I like almost all fish, as long as it isn't battered.
And lox is very very good.
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Yay, the forum likes me :)
(although possibly I should be disturbed by the idea of the forum becoming sentient...)
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Storm rider: oolong tea isnt that rare. Its easy enough to get here, but i suppose us brits like a cuppa more than most. Im never certain if i should put a drop of milk in or not though... milk with green tea wouldnt be right, but black tea without milk isnt right iether.
Im partial to a bit of fish, as long as its not cooked by my dad. He doesnt so much cook as murder food. I LOVE proper chip shop cod, or even better, haddock. The one thing i cant stand is batter without breadcrumbs in it. Its just wrong, but poncy southern chip shops do it all the time.
I ate some strange marine life on my last trip up to scotland. Did you know that lobsters sometimes get caviar caught up in their tails as they swim? When you pull them out of the pots, you can peel thier tail back, and eat FRESH caviar straight off the lobster. Its lovely and sweet, with a touch of salt from the seawater.
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Batter with breadcrumbs?
I knew you were all bally insane up north!
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Yer just soft :P The breadcrumbs make the batter nice and crispy, not the slimy crap you get in a southern chippy.
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I've had plenty of crispy batters in a southern chippy, and especially in southern pubs, where I also believe there are no breadcrumbs.
Hmmm. Beer batter.
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Its not the same. London chippys especially are just all wrong. The chips arnt greasy enough, and they have actual attempts at decor.. and the woman behind the counter calls you "sir" instead of "love". The batter is just adding insult to injury.
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I say: Fish is better than meat. I guess I could live quite comfortably without eating meat, but I need fish.
Well, actually, so far, anything that came out of the sea and is considered edible (and that I tried) I liked. Fish, caviar, lobster, clams, seaweed, you name it.
Except for that one time where I tried to eat sand at the beach when I was little. That sucked.
Amusingly, I'm quite okay at cooking fish, but I'm pretty good at cooking meat, despite the fact that I don't like it that much.
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On a sidenote, it annoys me how people refer to "fish" and "meat" as separate foods. I know what it means and why, but I'm anal enough to be all "Fish is meat."
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My own thread is torture. I'm tempted to skip out of work now and go eat a big plate of sashimi.
Also oysters, mussels, and other organisms found in the phylum mollusca.
Yum. My grandpa would take me to the beach a lot. He would schuck and eat oysters right at the beach. I liked them that way but they are not nearly as good cooked.
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Funnily enough, its fish pie for dinner for me. Its not terribly good fish pie though.
Perhaps "meat" can be defined as the flesh of a warm blooded animal? warm blooded meat is certainly very different from cold blooded. Though people do refer to "snake meat" and thats cold blooded.
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On a sidenote, it annoys me how people refer to "fish" and "meat" as separate foods. I know what it means and why, but I'm anal enough to be all "Fish is meat."
Technically, you are right. Given the context however, the problem is: Either I write "meat of mammals and birds" or even better "meat of land-dwelling creatures", which is unnecessarily long and will lead to some funny person asking whether I eat <insert obscure animal nobody eats>.
Or I say "beef, pork, turkey, chicken and so on", but then, someone will probably ask "so kangaroo is okay?"
So I just write "meat", since everyone gets what I mean even if it is technically wrong. Please excuse me.
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stuff about proper fish-and-chips and chippies and such
Gotta have batter with breadcrumbs. Although I prefer to compensate, myself - fish supper with boddy's. (Sorry, Khar. It's probably because I'm Northerish, too...)
Also, MMMMMEEEEEAAATTT.
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Poo, soft-shell crab season is over.
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Oh, I've never had soft-shelled crap. I take it's good?
My grandpa always talked about how he had really good soft-shelled crab sandwhichs while he lived in Maryland (I think.)
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^^ Should I be finding this amusing or not?
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Oh, I've never had soft-shelled crab. I take it's good?
I'm not a fan of soft-shelled crab. I love crab (eg. crabmeat is really common in kimbap,) but only the inner meat; eating the shell is pretty bleh.
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crab IS crap compared with lobster. If your in the right place, lobster doesnt cost much.
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Some reason lately in a lot of different words I've been getting P and B switched up frequently.
I didn't really care for lobster all that much when I tried it.
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Lobster just takes up good money that could be spent on pepper steak.
We need a meat thread.
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I think lobster and crab taste like nasty. Lobster bisque on the other hand...
Meat thread go!
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Its not the same. London chippys especially are just all wrong. The chips arnt greasy enough, and they have actual attempts at decor.. and the woman behind the counter calls you "sir" instead of "love". The batter is just adding insult to injury.
When I worked in the bar in North London, in Green Lanes, I called everyone love, but I'm from Norn Iron and its common there to be everyones love. Actually I do it in class too, I'm sure my pupils fecking hate it when I call em love or darlin.
On the topic of seafood... I eat no seafood. I refuse to eat my oceanic brothers and sisters. I just dont like the taste. I cook a mean fish though, according to the hubby to be. :)
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Ew ew ew ew fish! I like fish and chips and I can deal with tuna but keep the rest of the things that should swim in the damn sea people...ewwwwww *shudders at thought of eating scaly swimming critters*
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I do not care much for eating fishies. I love shushi and tuna but anything else is just...yuck. Except fish eggs. I loves me some fish eggs. Like poppy seeds they are! Only, you know, fishy.
Also, catch and release fishing? Yeah, just...no. It's mean.
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No, this (http://www.sharkinfo.ch/images/si/net1.jpg) is just mean (http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/albatross/images2/surface_big.jpg).
Actually, I don't know why I said no. I agree with you. I just think this (http://www.fishinghurts.com/commercialFishing1.asp) is worse.
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Guys, I am sorry but catch and release fly-fishing with barbless hooks is the best thing ever.
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The fish you catch are probably all "OMG WTF DUDES! DID YOU SEE THAT? WTF WAS UP WITH THAT? THAT DUDE JUST TRIED TO KILL ME AND THEN PUT ME BACK IN THE WATER!" after you release them. You are traumatizing innocent fish for the rest of their poor little lives!
Unless, you know, they think it's fun. Like reverse swimming.
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i love fish, and crab, and lobster and pretty much anything else that you remove from it's protective case in order to ingest it's innards.
yeah, we marylanders have the best damn over-harvested poison blue crabs you can get. seriously, most of the crabs you eat in maryland come from louisiana anyhow. the only way to really get good maryland blue crab is a select few crabhouses or, the best way, is to go to the bay and buy them from shacks on the side of the road. you can get some excellent softshells that way.
today i bartered caramel macciatos for sushi. i also got to talk about the sexy ladies with the lesbians i work with and the guys with the straight girl who was working. it was a good day.
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I don't fish. I lack the patience.
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some really awesome sounding stuff about Maryland
That is just about enough to make me wish I lived there.
Hate you. *
Proper English and Grammar compels me to say this should actually be, "I am quite jealous of you at the moment."
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I.... get to eat chicken wings today. Hooray?
Damn you heretic... to think I just had some crabcakes the other day that would probably be hella cheaper out there. GRRRRRrrRRRrr.......
Had some awesome lobster at a wedding I was at the other day though.
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I know this is insanely off topic, but I can seriously watch fish in a tank for hours.
About eating seafood, I will eat most of it, so long as it is cooked. Favorites incude shrimp made by my mother, crab, and salmon.
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Lobster has to be fresh. Less than 24 hours out of the sea, and still alive when you boil it.
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When sea food is for dinner:
Uncle: Hey look, we got some shirmp for dinner.
Me: Where are their heads?
Uncle: I threw them off the side of the boat.
Me: Why would you do that? Do they grow back?
Uncle: No.
Cousin in shrimp voice: That was my husband!
Real shrimp: I have butter on me! (telepathically, assuming their telepathers are in their bottoms)
Lobster: Hey, water! I was in water less than 24 hours ago. I am fresh.
Lobster: Needs more salt.
Lobster: ...
Lobster: Ow.
Lobster: ...
Lobster: I have butter on me!
Fish: Blub.
Fish: Not blub.
Fish: I have chips next to me!
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I love seafood. Which is why I am sad that we've moved onto pork and lamb in my C.A. class. But, hey, I learned how to kill a lobster by shoving a knife through its head (only after reading an article about how lobsters lack the part of the brain that registers pain). The lobster that we killed had been really mean to me (doing the whole tailflippy thing everytime I went near it), so in a vengeful way, I was a little glad that I got to kill it. Then I was sad, cause I watched the damn thing spasm for about ten minutes. Then I was hungrey, and didn't really care that it had died.
Interesting fact, the lobsters heart kept beating for about ten minutes after it died. I kept wanting to poke it with my knife to stop it, cause it was pretty freaky.
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your not supposed to kill it with a knife! you chuck it in the boiling water, and slam the lid down quick. Thats how fresh it wants to be.
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Boiling lobsters alive is just about the most horrible thing mankind has ever done to its aquatic friends. Poor shellfish!
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I saw on Iron Chef once, the secret ingrediant was live octopus, and they cut up these poor octopi WHILE THEY WERE STILL ALIVE!!
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The first time she came with us to a lobster restaurant, my youngest sister was all "Oh, the poor lobster!" *nyom nyom nyom*
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I saw on Iron Chef once, the secret ingrediant was live octopus, and they cut up these poor octopi WHILE THEY WERE STILL ALIVE!!
I've eaten fresh octopus where I picked the thing out of a tank, the guy threw it onto my plate and chopped it up right in front of me, and then pieces were still wriggling as they went down my throat. Mmm!
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I fucked a live octopu- I mean... How about those Mets?
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You guys, that better not have been the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. Those little fellas are already endangered, there are barely enough for the sasquatchi. And you don't need to disturb their mating practices by emotionally scarring them Sythe, I know what you were going to say, and it was not octopunnet square. I don't think you cared that much about the genetic outcome.
You can help. (http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/)
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I saw on Iron Chef once, the secret ingrediant was live octopus, and they cut up these poor octopi WHILE THEY WERE STILL ALIVE!!
Okay, THAT is the most horrible thing ever done to a sea-critter. The poor little Cephalopod!
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Best seafood I've ever had though had to be conch. Anyone from Florida MAY have run into this, whereas I had this in the Bahamas. It's shellfish, and hellat tasty. Had conch fritters, a conch burger, and conch salad.
Conch salad? Yes, it was conch mixed with lime juice, oranges and some other assorted fruits. How was it? It was awesome. However, it was basically prepared the same way that octopus was... in fact the guy plucked his conch trap fresh out of the water and prepared it right in front of us. (I'll spare the details.)
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Okay, THAT is the most horrible thing ever done to a sea-critter. The poor little Cephalopod!
Fixed. Gastropods are snails and slugs.
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You guys, that better not have been the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. Those little fellas are already endangered, there are barely enough for the sasquatchi. And you don't need to disturb their mating practices by emotionally scarring them Sythe, I know what you were going to say, and it was not octopunnet square. I don't think you cared that much about the genetic outcome.
You can help. (http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/)
Seriously, I've seen them in the wild and there is nothing quite like seeing them move through the trees.
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Okay, THAT is the most horrible thing ever done to a sea-critter. The poor little Cephalopod!
Fixed. Gastropods are snails and slugs.
Okay, now that I have made enough of a fool of myself...
I totally saw a tree octopus when I was in this one forest. It was all "*gurgle gurgle gurgle*" and then it shot ink at me. TOTALLY AWESOME.
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http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=493
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I feel so left out. Having lived in Arkansas most of my life, I have never seen the majestic flight of the (flying?) tree octupus! You actually got shot with their ink? I hear that is considered quite the experience. You must feel honored. :)
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While I appreciate the fact that new users are apparently using the search function, it would be really nice if they check the last post date before they decided to reply to a thread. Any discussion that existed in this thread was probably forgotten considering that it was nearly three years ago when anybody posted.
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Ohmigod it totally was like 3 years ago. Holy shit I feel old.
Jesus, how much of my life have I wasted in this place?
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Quite the surprise to see this thread back at the top of the list
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Jesus, how much of my life have I wasted in this place?
Fortunately there's a handy little box at the top of the forum with your profile information in it, that will tell you exactly that!
Ooh, I've spent almost an entire month logged in here!
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That wasn't there before the update! I will never know the true figures! Oh noes!
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Katie, i think the total sum adds up to "to much"
Old fogey!
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I'm not really a fan of fish.
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I had the last post when this thread died the first time. I remember when that used to happen virtually every time; I would post something, and then the forum abruptly loses interest in the thread. My posts are that repellent :cry:
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I believe the term is "thread killer"
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The term you're looking for is "Joe Hocking is a boring motherfucker".
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Joe I don't think you're all that bad.
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Holy resurrection thread, Batman! What's up with all the thread rez's? (Yet another troll? I hope not.)
Joe, it's ok. You've given up that past life. You've been doing well!
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While I appreciate the fact that new users are apparently using the search function, it would be really nice if they check the last post date before they decided to reply to a thread. Any discussion that existed in this thread was probably forgotten considering that it was nearly three years ago when anybody posted.
Sorry actually I was on my cellphone. It does'nt show times or dates.:(
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I believe the term is "imapiratearg"
Yeah, that imapiratearg guy is one boring motherfucker".
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What the hell?
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Would it totally be off-topic and horrid to ask why people think fish is vegetarian-eatin'?
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It is because fish are naturally suicidal.
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Katie, i think the total sum adds up to "to much"
Old fogey!
TOO much! ARGH! SMASH YOU!
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Also, for the record, turtle is delicious. Now that I've read the whole thread I would just like everyone to know this.
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TOO much! ARGH! SMASH YOU!
Calm down there chuck. Its not worth loosing you're cool over this. Their are plenty of other threads to post in without letting a silly mistake like this won effect you.
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Note to self:
Kill Joe.
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Would it totally be off-topic and horrid to ask why people think fish is vegetarian-eatin'?
I typed up a mini-rant in response to this, but I eliminated all the stuff that would make me sound like an incredible snob and wound up with this:
I think it's because fish are cold blooded.
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As are Reptiles and Amphibians.
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And terrorists!
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So my friend Max, he was talking about how he was healthy and environmental because he didn't eat meat but he ate fish, since he was a 'presca...? presba....? presbytarian or something!', which is a very characteristic Max moment.
(He is a pescetarian if that term hasn't come up yet)
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They don't look like pescetarians to me.
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I got hungry reading the thread, and now I'm disappointed we are talking about terrorists instead of fish.
I like so many kinds of fish, tuna, salmon, cod, lobster, calamari, and I've had jellyfish once.
Does anybody else get really hungry at aquariums? I find it torture.
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People go veggie for different reasons. Some health, some environmental and animal conscious, etc. Those that do it for health reasons tend to be fine with fish. Those that do it to help the environment or halt animal cruelty tend to be against eating fish. But then again, there's tons of exceptions. If you're concerned only with the environment, there are brands of fish at your local health food store that are not caught in over fished markets and done environmentally friendly. And there are people that for whatever reason separate fish from land animals on what is ok to harm and kill.
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It's probably Biblical reasoning.
Though the one part of the food pyramid is the "Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs, and Nuts Group." You'd think they could just go with "Meat and Meat Alternatives" or something.
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i consider myself a vegetarian but i occasionally eat fish. i became a vegetarian because i'm against animal cruelty and i think factory farms are pretty fucked up for a variety of reasons. so although i don't like to eat fish that are raised in fish farms i don't feel so bad about eating fresh caught sea food. and i'll be totally honest - i also feel a lot less bad about eating shrimp than i do about eating a baby cow. :P
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Has anyone in this thread said something about liking fish yet?
Because, they can be pretty awesome, but I loathe tuna.
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Tuna is nasty. I once ate a casserole without knowing what kind it was out of politeness and it ended up being tuna. My first instinct was to spit it out, but I had to swallow. If you know what that's like, you know it sucks. One of my friends wants to change my mind by making me a tuna steak, but I am wary.
I like some fish, love shrimp, but not lobster or crab, because I'm weird.
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Tuna is totally nasty, it smells horrible and it tastes worse.
I love most forms of seafood but if I eat too much of it I end up absolutely loathing it.
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I don't like tuna on its own, but I enjoy it in the tuna hot dish ("casserole") that my mom makes and Tuna Helper Cheesy Pasta. Oh that stuff is glorious...
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I once found the rare vegetarian fish fillet and I was absolutely amazed. I had to buy it. It was very tasty, actually. I love veggie sushi and it kind of tasted like the nori in that but with a meaty texture. Veggie cooks are magicians, I swear.
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Wait wait wait....
You dont like tuna?
How the hell!
Have you ever tried the stuff that doesnt go in a can?
Like, überfresh, just out of the ocean tuna?
Seriously, fresh tuna = best ever!
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I like some fish, love shrimp, but not lobster or crab, because I'm weird.
I can totally agree with that statement. I just don't understand what the deal with lobster is. Crustaceans in general are not exactly what I'd call a party in my mouth-- if anything, I think they're rather bland, although the texture is OK. It's not so much that I don't like it, it's that I don't understand why some people make such a big deal out of it. Between the lack of flavor, the expense involved and the spectacle of watching people crack the critter open, dismember it and then practically writhe with pleasure as they eat it, it's tough to say that I'm a fan. I mean, really, I've had fast food I've enjoyed more, and I'm actually a really picky eater, so it's all very confusing to me.
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I used to eat water packed tuna right from the can with my fingers.
I once found the rare vegetarian fish fillet and I was absolutely amazed. I had to buy it. It was very tasty, actually. I love veggie sushi and it kind of tasted like the nori in that but with a meaty texture. Veggie cooks are magicians, I swear.
Where did you find this? It sounds intriguing and delicious.
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I once found the rare vegetarian fish fillet and I was absolutely amazed. I had to buy it. It was very tasty, actually. I love veggie sushi and it kind of tasted like the nori in that but with a meaty texture. Veggie cooks are magicians, I swear.
Wait, in what sense are we using the food vegetarian there?
Just wonderin'.
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So I had some barramundi recently and I don't really get it. It's kinda steakey, but less so than swordfish and it has more of that obnoxious fish taste to it. I'll admit that using barra in a vietnamese dish maybe wasn't the best use of it and a more fish and chips style dish would probably have been more appropriate.
So guys, what is the deal with barramundi?
(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2162/seinfeldcq0.jpg)
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As far as i can tell it is held in high esteem because it is the most Australian of fish.
If a fish could wear an Australian flag as a cape and bellow the "Aussie Aussie Aussie" chant at the most inappropriate of times, that fish would be barramundi.
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Barramundi is lovely!
It is at its best when gently baked and left to stand alone, possibly with a bit of lemon, a bit of pesto, or a bit of balsamic vinegar and honey reduction. We have one on the lunch that is served on a salad of rocket, warm roma tomato, baked pumpkin, crumbled fetta and that gorgeous sticky balsamic dressing. It is very very nice!
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As far as mock meats go, I'm still disappointed that HuFu went off the market before I even heard of it.
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Between the lack of flavor, the expense involved and the spectacle of watching people crack the critter open, dismember it and then practically writhe with pleasure as they eat it, it's tough to say that I'm a fan. I mean, really, I've had fast food I've enjoyed more, and I'm actually a really picky eater, so it's all very confusing to me.
You my friend, are neither a Southerner, a Down-easter nor an Asian. You are forgiven for what you do not understand.
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I really, really wish I had the means to procure a crustacean and fix it and then take an elabourate and extensive photoshoot of me devouring it with mess and gusto, just to prove Whipstitch wrong.
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We should both do this thing. Revive the Picture Story thread or something.
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The only tuna I like is the tuna-from-a-can
Covered with LOADS of mayo.
Then dipped in mayo.
Then with more mayo =]
And also I think to define meat is anything prepared in a butchers shop
and fish is prepared in....a fish mongers shop?
What is a fish monger anyways?
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Well, I prefer red-meat.
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The only tuna I like is the tuna-from-a-can
Covered with LOADS of mayo.
Then dipped in mayo.
Then with more mayo =]
And also I think to define meat is anything prepared in a butchers shop
and fish is prepared in....a fish mongers shop?
What is a fish monger anyways?
That first part sounds like the most disgusting thing ever. (See the I'm hungry thread.) And a fish monger is a person who sells fish.
Tonight I had fish! Pineapple and mango crusted tilapia. It was freaking delicious.
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What is a fish monger anyways?
I think it's an old euphemism for prostitutes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Malone)
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I really, really wish I had the means to procure a crustacean and fix it and then take an elabourate and extensive photoshoot of me devouring it with mess and gusto, just to prove Whipstitch wrong.
We should both do this thing. Revive the Picture Story thread or something.
Actually, were a thread to be revived over this, I think the best choice would to be to create a truly epic addition to the blind date thread, with Calenlass ravaging an entire Red Lobster's restaurant, eventually leading to the management tasing her with the shotgun from the "Some stupid asshole..." thread while Johnny C and I look on in horror.
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Actually I think photos to illustrate that would be a huge letdown. Just the text you wrote is awesome.
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What is a fish monger anyways?
Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Saxon mongari, Old High German mangari, mengari, Old Icelandic mangari, prob. directly < classical Latin mang dealer, trader (see MANGO n.2), with substitution of the Germanic base of -ER suffix1 for the Latin agent-noun suffix; cf. also MONG v. With sense 2 cf. Old Saxon flesmongere, Middle High German vleischmanger, Old Icelandic kjöt-mangari butcher.
tl;dr: It's archaic, but "monger" does basically mean "seller."
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what the FUCK people
Visitors to a Hampshire aquarium are being greeted by an eerily alien-like smiling face.
People have likened the baby thornback ray's distinctive face to the 'Last Human' featured on Doctor Who. In the BBC series, the last surviving human was reduced to a stretched sheet of human skin with just a pair of eyes and a mouth.
The semi-transparent thornback ray, only a month old and just 12cms in length, is part of a captive breeding programme at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Southsea.
It is one of a dozen, hatched from egg-cases known as 'mermaid's purses', currently being looked after in a special nursery tank.
When they are large enough, they will join the adult thornbacks and several sharks in a large pool. A Blue Reef spokesman said the babies are proving very popular with visitors.
so uh hampshire people, go look at this CUTENESSOMG
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff127/tetrabinary/Two/babyray.jpg)
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(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/1310092962_95e4cfb218_o.jpg)
I think the fish thing looks more human.
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i also feel a lot less bad about eating shrimp than i do about eating a baby cow. :P
This reminds me of the Denis Leary rant about humans not eating cute animals.
Seriously, dolphin safe tuna? Cmon......What about the tuna?
I enjoy my spot on the food chain. I don't mess with nature.
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charisma. Tuna are stinking fish with no charisma, and Flipper has lots.
or lochs...
its hard to say I think.