How do you people eat seafood?

[Holdfast]

Has no-one done the "seafood diet" joke yet?

I'm severely disappointed in you all.

We were holding it for you.

The moment's gone now.

You all failed to amuse me.

 

[Plecostomus]

Has no-one done the "seafood diet" joke yet?

I'm severely disappointed in you all.

We were holding it for you.

The moment's gone now.

You all failed to amuse me.

Try this:
Local supermarket sells live lobsters. You point at one and the clerk attempts to pull it from the tank with a plexi-glass contraption on a stick.

While I was there recently the clerk was trying to remove one for a customer and she DROPPED it to the floor. To make things worse, it was missing a band on one of it's claw.

Picture the scene: freaked out minimum-wage teenage girl, escaped delicious crunchy ocean-bug on the floor making woozy stabbity-pinch motions with it's one free claw and an irate customer.

Risking possible legal action I walked around the counter into the "Staff Only" are and picked the damn thing up off the ground and placed it in the polybag for the customer.

...I spent one summer helping a lobsterman peddle his product when I lived near the ocean. They aren't that fearsome, you just have to be careful around the pinching apparatus.

My reward for all this? A tub of "seafood spread" for 3/4 off plus this amusing story to relate to everyone.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I should possibly have titled the thread 'How can you people eat seafood?' The things we think of after we hit the post button.

I 'spose then the joke would have been "any way I like!"

Gosh.

Naturally the next threads in this series should be:

2) Why do we eat seafood?
3) Where shall we have fish and chips?

Has no-one done the "seafood diet" joke yet?

I'm severely disappointed in you all.

We were holding it for you.

The moment's gone now.

You all failed to amuse me.

I guess few people did sea it coming.

 

[Holdfast]

Has no-one done the "seafood diet" joke yet?

I'm severely disappointed in you all.

We were holding it for you.

The moment's gone now.

You all failed to amuse me.

Try this:
Local supermarket sells live lobsters. You point at one and the clerk attempts to pull it from the tank with a plexi-glass contraption on a stick.

While I was there recently the clerk was trying to remove one for a customer and she DROPPED it to the floor. To make things worse, it was missing a band on one of it's claw.

Picture the scene: freaked out minimum-wage teenage girl, escaped delicious crunchy ocean-bug on the floor making woozy stabbity-pinch motions with it's one free claw and an irate customer.

Risking possible legal action I walked around the counter into the "Staff Only" are and picked the damn thing up off the ground and placed it in the polybag for the customer.

...I spent one summer helping a lobsterman peddle his product when I lived near the ocean. They aren't that fearsome, you just have to be careful around the pinching apparatus.

My reward for all this? A tub of "seafood spread" for 3/4 off plus this amusing story to relate to everyone.

Moderately amusing.

You will escape the fate awaiting the rest of humanity when I seize final control of the planet.

 

[Plecostomus]

Moderately amusing.

You will escape the fate awaiting the rest of humanity when I seize final control of the planet.

So, no eternal life of endless bliss and sexual gratification for me?

Shit.

 

[Holdfast]

Oh yes, you get that. But not with women.

 

[Tim]

Oh yes, you get that. But not with women.

Offering yourself again?

 

[Plecostomus]

Oh yes, you get that. But not with women.

Ah ok then. Honestly I could care less, ass is ass if you know what I mean (wink)


Wait, what are you doing with that donkey?

 

[DBR]

If I had to kill my own food I'd be a vegetarian.

I don't cook lobster or crab or anything live, but I did feel kind of guilty steaming mussels a few weeks ago.

They were damn good mussels, though. Bit of brandy, some sage...

 

[kitkat]

DBR, me and the hubby have had the discussions many times about what we'd eat if we had to kill our own food. For me, the only meat I would be able to have would be fish. As I previously stated I grew up in a family of commercial fisherman so I was gutting and cleaning fish from the time I was around 4 years old. It doesn't even make me flinch. I don't know if I'd be able to cook crab or lobster though.

 

[Lindley]

I've never liked the smell of seafood, so I can't really imagine myself liking the taste either.

 

[kitkat]

I've never liked the smell of seafood, so I can't really imagine myself liking the taste either.

I think lots of people get turned off by the smell but honestly, it doesn't taste like that. At least, not all of it does. Some fish is more...fishy than others. I could suggest some good, mild ones if you wanted to think about trying some.

 

[Kestra]

I've never liked the smell of seafood, so I can't really imagine myself liking the taste either.

I think lots of people get turned off by the smell but honestly, it doesn't taste like that. At least, not all of it does. Some fish is more...fishy than others. I could suggest some good, mild ones if you wanted to think about trying some.

I'd love to hear some suggestions! I'm another person that's never really liked seafood, but there are nutritional benefits and I'm trying to be adventurous. If I want to cook fish myself, what are some good ones to start with?

 

[Plecostomus]

Flounder, Orange Ruffy... Well These are "mild" to me, I've been around seafood all my life. The only time it "smells" to me is when it turns. If I can smell it I don't eat it because the smell comes from bacteria and rot.

 

[Timby]

I've never liked the smell of seafood, so I can't really imagine myself liking the taste either.

I think lots of people get turned off by the smell but honestly, it doesn't taste like that. At least, not all of it does. Some fish is more...fishy than others. I could suggest some good, mild ones if you wanted to think about trying some.

I'd love to hear some suggestions! I'm another person that's never really liked seafood, but there are nutritional benefits and I'm trying to be adventurous. If I want to cook fish myself, what are some good ones to start with?

If you can get lake perch where you are, that's a great fish to devour. Pan-fry it up, serve with a baked potato ... delicious.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I've never liked the smell of seafood, so I can't really imagine myself liking the taste either.

I think lots of people get turned off by the smell but honestly, it doesn't taste like that. At least, not all of it does. Some fish is more...fishy than others. I could suggest some good, mild ones if you wanted to think about trying some.

And if you're turned off by the smell, remember, raw doesn't smell "fishy." It's only when it's cooked that you get the fishy smell.

Yay, sushi!

 

[John Picard]

I've never liked the smell of seafood, so I can't really imagine myself liking the taste either.

I think lots of people get turned off by the smell but honestly, it doesn't taste like that. At least, not all of it does. Some fish is more...fishy than others. I could suggest some good, mild ones if you wanted to think about trying some.

And if you're turned off by the smell, remember, raw doesn't smell "fishy." It's only when it's cooked that you get the fishy smell.

Yay, sushi!

Errm, when it's left out in warm temps for too long makes it smell "fishy" as well -- and even worse!

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Errm, when it's left out in warm temps for too long makes it smell "fishy" as well -- and even worse!

Eat it fast!

 

[kitkat]

I've never liked the smell of seafood, so I can't really imagine myself liking the taste either.

I think lots of people get turned off by the smell but honestly, it doesn't taste like that. At least, not all of it does. Some fish is more...fishy than others. I could suggest some good, mild ones if you wanted to think about trying some.

I'd love to hear some suggestions! I'm another person that's never really liked seafood, but there are nutritional benefits and I'm trying to be adventurous. If I want to cook fish myself, what are some good ones to start with?

Somebody said flounder and orange roughy. Those are good ones. Somebody also said perch, tilapia is technically nile perch so yeah, that's a good mild one too. One that's a touch more fishy but still mild IMO is grouper. Grouper is one of my favorites. My sister-in-law doesn't like much seafood but she eats shrimp so maybe that's something to consider too. And shrimp is insanely easy to cook.

And no sushi/sashimi.....I don't eat bait.

 

[Samurai8472]

And no sushi/sashimi.....I don't eat bait.

I'm a fraud, I eat imitation sushi with the faux crab meat