I eat pea crabs on purpose! If there are enough of them when I'm opening oysters for a feed I'll save them and saute them in butter but sometimes just pop them in my mouth. But the oysters have to be really fresh, less than a week after harvesting. I think that I got the idea from Euell Gibbons book on Stalking the Blue Eyed Scallop, when I was a kid.
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Judith S. Weis <[email protected] > wrote: > I've never heard of pea crabs being consumed on purpose. It's usually when > you pop a mussel in your mouth, get a surprise, and go "pfah" and see the > little crab on your plate! > > > > > > At a dinner conversation with Carl Zimmer (author of Parasite Rex, > > etc.) the question came up of whether there are any parasites > > regularly consumed as food (not unintentionally with your food). I > > came up with one animal (pea crab) and one fungus (huitlacoche; corn > > smut). Do you know of others? > > > > David Inouye > > > -- Gary D. Grossman, PhD Professor of Animal Ecology Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA 30602 Research & teaching web site - http://grossman.myweb.uga.edu/<http://www.arches.uga.edu/%7Egrossman> Board of Editors - Animal Biodiversity and Conservation Editorial Board - Freshwater Biology Editorial Board - Ecology Freshwater Fish Sculpture by Gary D. Grossman https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gary-Grossmans-Sculpture-Portfolio/124819124227147?fref=ts Hutson Gallery Provincetown, MA - www.hutsongallery.net/artists.html My ukulele channel - www.youtube.com/user/garydg29
