How do you people eat seafood?

[Spot's Meow]

The smell of seafood makes me very nauseous, so I have to leave the room if someone is eating it. The only kind that I can stand is tuna, the smell doesn't bother me. I can eat it, but only in the form of warm casseroles, not cold or on a sandwich or anything else.

 

[FordSVT]

I love seafood, and living where I do it's kind of a given I guess.

I eat fish and chips (haddock) at least once every couple of weeks, love scallops and clams and muscles. Most types of fish (river trout is comfort food to me).

My last seafood binge was about a month ago when a friend and I split on $200 worth of lobster at $3.50 a pound. Forty four lobster. I ate about six of them over two days, served some at a party, and I've got a dozen frozen in the freezer right now.

Love lobster, though after I eat a lot of them I find I'm good for a few months. Very rich food (makes me not enjoy crab and shrimp as much).

 

[1001001]

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

Correct.

I love fish, but I'm not so big on things with shells on them. Lobster, shrimp, etc.

 

[Sean Aaron]

I like fish. Sushi is a reason to live.

I also enjoy sushi (and that old commercial where the guy says "su-chi, where I come from that's bait!"), but in cold weather I stick to the hot food.

Korean tofu and clam hot pot is divine.

 

[auntiehill]

I love seafood---shrimp, salmon, trout, fish & chips, lobster, crab, scallops...YUM!

I, too, do not like my food to stare back at me, so I don't buy or order whole fish. I get fillets and crab-cakes, and so forth.

It's wonderful stuff.

 

[nevermore]

In vast amounts, often right out of the shell. For shellfish, I don't care for lobster. I prefer blue crab.

Also very nice in the form of crab cakes, crab dip, crap soup, crab pasta and crab pizza. Regular fish is not something I particularly like, though shark and swordfish are nice on occassion, as they are more meaty and less fishy. Gotta be caught fresh though, none of this imported shit.

 

[Thurisaz]

I am from Maryland, so I was raised on blue crabs. I am not really a fish person. I will never eat any meat that was kosher slaughtered. If you want to see why, watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzaeHfh65hs

 

[Mallory]

I love seafood, in all it's tasty forms.

 

[trekkerguy]

Cooked and cooked well. Usually with some sort of batter.

But whatever it is it must be well done. None of that raw shit.

 

[Holdfast]

I love seafood, in all it's tasty forms.

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[unimatrix7]

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 know what, that's a good question. It occured to me after I posted this thread and the answer is...no. The sight of a whole, cooked, chicken doesn't bother me in the slightest. I can't bring myself to touch it and insist that somebody else yank off the bits I want to eat. But it doesn't turn me away, really. Weird, huh?

 

[Adm. Bonz]

In vast amounts, often right out of the shell. For shellfish, I don't care for lobster. I prefer blue crab.

Also very nice in the form of crab cakes, crab dip, crap soup, crab pasta and crab pizza. Regular fish is not something I particularly like, though shark and swordfish are nice on occassion, as they are more meaty and less fishy. Gotta be caught fresh though, none of this imported shit.

Damn that looks good!

I love all seafood. Oysters, scallops, shrimp, crab, lobster, fish, its all good.
We go out for sushi at least once a month. I love it all!

 

[Tim]

I'm from New England. Seafood is a way of life.

Now where's that lobstah?

I can also consume clam chowder in frightening quantities, provided it's none of that ketchup-y New-York-Style stuff.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I tend to "rank" food by the intelligence of the critter. Pigs are highly intelligent so I dislike eating pork - the animals are smart enough to figure out that they are being kept in captivity and led to slaughter. I also won't eat baby mammals (calves, lambs). Too mean.

I have less hesitation towards eating birds vs. mammals, fish vs. birds, and non-fish seafood vs. fish. A scallop or a mussel isn't going to know it's being bred to be eaten - to me, they're not too different from a carrot. And if they're caught in the wild, they're never suffering in captivity like a cow or pig, so that's even better. Assuming that the "suffering" of a scallop is equivalent to a cow, which it definitely is not.

Crabs and lobsters are somewhat more intelligent, but I can't see how they're smarter than a fish and definitely not smarter than a bird, so if I'll eat chicken, why not lobster too? Chicken can suffer pretty badly in captivity, so I opt for free-range birds, which taste a whole lot better.

 

[FordSVT]

^I'm glad to know someone out there shares the exact same eating philosophy I do Temis.

I will admit I have one remnant left of my love of pork, and that would be bacon. It's like crack.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

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

Dammit- now I want sushi. Thank you so very much.

I had the experience of seeing a fish "just the way he looked alive" eyes and all the first time I went to Italy. It freaked me out, so my aunt took a piece of lettuce and covered up his eyes for me.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I just do the A Christmas Story thing.

"It's, uh, it's smiling at me."

 

[Orac Zen]

I'm not a fan of crustaceans but fish = as far as I'm concerned. I eat fish with no difficulty whatsoever.

I also won't eat baby mammals (calves, lambs). Too mean.

I don't know about anywhere else but in this country, by the time they're old enough to sell lambs are lambs in name only. Little or nothing about them is "baby"-ish. It's probably the same for vealers but we don't produce them so I can't make a definitive comment.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I personally just hate the taste of lamb and think beef is fine (so there's no need to have veal).

Probably the only animal I'm horrified of eating morally would be whale meat. That would only be an issue if I were in Japan or Scandanavia, so it doesn't really matter.

 

[RobertVA]

As for veal:

If the veal calves were still around they would be drinking all that milk you see in your grocer's dairy case.