How do you people eat seafood?

[unimatrix7]

I cannot eat anything that lived in the water when it was alive. I'm not entirely sure why, though it probably has something to do with the way that some seafood is served. Some fish, for instance, arrives on your plate exactly the same as it looked when it was swimming around. There are eyes and a mouth and fins and it just makes me ill. I don't really want my food to be looking at me when I eat it :S I have similar objections to eating lobsters (I think it's lobsters, anyway...), because they're often dumped into a vat of boiling water while they're still alive, and then proceed to squeal their little lungs out. That's just horrid.

Anyway, this revulsion has spread to include all marine life. I can't bring myself to eat scallops or prawns or...anything. If I'm in the vicinity of someone who is eating any seafood, I have to make a quick and discreet exit or risk retching. That happened once at school camp,actually. Some silly dolt kept eating tuna sandwiches and the smell would just make me want to pass out.

At least when I eat steak or, y'know, chicken nuggets, it looks nothing like it did when it was wandering around outside.

Does anyone feel the same way? Or does anyone have anything to say in defense of seafood?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Sushi is one of the reasons why life is worth living.

 

[Amaris]

I cannot eat anything that lived in the water when it was alive. I'm not entirely sure why, though it probably has something to do with the way that some seafood is served. Some fish, for instance, arrives on your plate exactly the same as it looked when it was swimming around. There are eyes and a mouth and fins and it just makes me ill. I don't really want my food to be looking at me when I eat it :S I have similar objections to eating lobsters (I think it's lobsters, anyway...), because they're often dumped into a vat of boiling water while they're still alive, and then proceed to squeal their little lungs out. That's just horrid.

Anyway, this revulsion has spread to include all marine life. I can't bring myself to eat scallops or prawns or...anything. If I'm in the vicinity of someone who is eating any seafood, I have to make a quick and discreet exit or risk retching. That happened once at school camp,actually. Some silly dolt kept eating tuna sandwiches and the smell would just make me want to pass out.

At least when I eat steak or, y'know, chicken nuggets, it looks nothing like it did when it was wandering around outside.

Does anyone feel the same way? Or does anyone have anything to say in defense of seafood?

I'm pretty much the same way. The only seafood I actually like are fish sticks, and those are usually minced.

J.

 

[Roger Wilco]

You can eat fish as filet and such too, many fish are way too big to cook them as one piece. I don't really understand how that's different from a steak.

 

[John Clark]

For me, some of the seafood just tastes good. I'm not a big fan of prawns or lobster though.

 

[Sean Aaron]

Knife and fork; sometimes chopsticks.

Fish and marine invertebrates are the only forms of animal life I will eat, so I'm pretty much the anti-you.

I will say in respect to lobsters that contrary to perception they aren't "squealing" -- that sound is the steam escaping from their shells and they die pretty quickly. If you're concerned about that then the best course is to put them in the pot before turning it on; they'll gradually cook then without "suffering" as much (without a full understanding of the nervous system of the lobster that's difficult to determine; until scientific studies a year ago it wasn't certain that fish experienced pain) -- same is true of humans if you wanted to kill yourself in a hot tub -- at least that's the reasoning behind it.

If you really want to eat seafood I'm sure a therapist can help. I worked with someone who became nauseous at the smell of fish and I was an avid consumer of smoked mackerel and tuna -- he had to leave the room/table if I started my lunch. It was sort of annoying at first, but I became quite sympathetic and would warn him.

As far as whole fish goes the cheek flesh is some of the tastiest; some people also relish the eyes, though I cannot say I would go there...

 

[SPOCKED]

I have similar objections to eating lobsters (I think it's lobsters, anyway...), because they're often dumped into a vat of boiling water while they're still alive, and then proceed to squeal their little lungs out. That's just horrid.

Little? Proportional to its body weight and height, a lobster has the largest lungs known to the animal kingdom. Therefore, a boiling lobster squeals with the equivalent vocal force of an estimated 2 to 3 land Pavarotti.

Sorry about your aversion to seafood. I'd never order fish that wound up with its head on my plate, but there is seemingly no kind of seafood I don't enjoy. Last night I gobbled down a (holiday) platter of jumbo shrimp and cocktail sauce. I don't eat shrimp often, but I put a serious dent in their population whenever I can. In defense of seafood I can only say this... of all the sole I have encountered in the menuverse, headless is the most.............................. humane.

(ugh - that actually made ME nauseous )

 

[An Officer]

They say that abused children don't like seafood.

 

[JoeZhang]

And yet people will drink milk from another mammal without a thought...

 

[wamdue]

um we put some on a fork, open our mouths and put the fork in it, nothing to it really

 

[JonathonWally]

I actually don't like seafood myself. Fish or Lobster or whatever. I've had it before, just don't like it. But I do love calamari which a lot of people apparently don't. I can't stand the smell of canned tuna and have to leave the room.

They say that abused children don't like seafood.

I'd never heard that before, interesting if it's true.

 

[Sean Aaron]

I actually don't like seafood myself. Fish or Lobster or whatever. I've had it before, just don't like it. But I do love calamari which a lot of people apparently don't. I can't stand the smell of canned tuna and have to leave the room.

Lobster I find a bit strong and don't really care for (good thing given how expensive it is); I do quite enjoy calamari, but it gets cooked improperly too often, so I avoid the fillets and stick with rings/tentacles when I order it at Italian or Spanish restaurants.

 

[JonathonWally]

I actually don't like seafood myself. Fish or Lobster or whatever. I've had it before, just don't like it. But I do love calamari which a lot of people apparently don't. I can't stand the smell of canned tuna and have to leave the room.

Lobster I find a bit strong and don't really care for (good thing given how expensive it is); I do quite enjoy calamari, but it gets cooked improperly too often, so I avoid the fillets and stick with rings/tentacles when I order it at Italian or Spanish restaurants.

Yes, I tend to only order it from certain places that I know can cook it right, otherwise it's rubber.

 

[MetalPants]

I fear that one day the fish will evolve into land creatures and come try to eat me. So I must eat them first. Survival of the species!

 

[Davros]

I eat sea food the same way I eat all food. With my mouth.

 

[John Picard]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Jumbo shrimp, lobster, and Alaskan King Crab and Snow Crab Bawstun Clam Chow-duh as well.

 

[JustAFriend]

At least when I eat steak or, y'know, chicken nuggets, it looks nothing like it did when it was wandering around outside.

So you dont barf at a baked chicken that comes on the plate with its legs in the air, looking like a plucked bird with its skin seared by fire???

You could always be a vegetarian, but then you'd have to think about all the animals and people that may have pee'd or pooped on the plants in the field (they don't give the farm laborers port-a-potty breaks, ya know..) And in most 3rd world countries where much of our produce is imported, human sewage is still a major source of fertilizer.

....you city kids amuse me.....

 

[Aurian]

They say that abused children don't like seafood.

What would be the connetion to that?

I like fish. Sushi is a reason to live.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I have no moral objections to eating seafood, although it's not my favorite food (so the price often doesn't make it worth it for me).

 

[Alpha Romeo]

Seafood is great. I eat it and it is delicious.