brilliant essay! (I'll pass on the blowfish, but pass the tilapia and lapu lapu). http://www.abouterp.com/erpsystemswordsb/images/Blowfish.jpg
--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > I love squid and octopus. They are like if you took the essence of shrimp, > put it in some tinfoil and inhaled the vapors through a hollowed out Bic pen > heated up by a lighter. (And it had eaten heroin before it died.) They are > both best cooked only a little or for a long time because in between is > rubber band city. > > Real Thai cooks have wonderful ways to cook Calamari, scoring the flesh > squares on one side in a diamond pattern so it curls up like a jewel. With > this texture it can hold the curry close to its milky flesh, trapped in the > ridges created. It isn't hard but makes a big hit at the table. > > They might have some clever Ted Bundy intelligence in them. But it is all > for the purposes of killing and eating their fellow marine neighbors. They > would eat a mermaid's face off in a flash, without thinking of her as a > divine version of fishy chastity despite her voluptuous upper deck. They > would gobble her down like I eat every one of these little miscreants who > falls onto my plate. With a spray of lime at the last second. Always a > spray of lime to mark their passing. > > I don't get my hand on the tiny octopus that the Japanese eat so raw that > occasionally one chokes a diner to death when swallowed in Jeffrey Dahmer > (did you also think his last name had an L in it? I sure did.) fashion, > their tentacles gripping the inner esophagus and choking the gourmand out of > his next exotic meal. I can't say which side I fall in this kind of > struggle, I mean chewing a living creature so poorly seems like such a > dickish move doesn't it? I mean does it reallyaffect the flavor to scald the > thing before mastication? Really? That is the most important part of the > flavor, that the creature fights you while chewing? I love food but count me > out for that ritual. Kill the thing, maybe RIGHT before I eat it like I do > with soft shell crabs from Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. That is cool. I taste > the whole bay in every bite when I do that. > > But for God's sake (liberal phrasing I know) kill the creature.My teeth are > not so good at that as a blast in the steam tray, OK? I don't need to feel > its objection to its own death in the same fleshy area I kiss my girlfriend > with. That tongue is a sacred area and not meant for a sacrificial alter. It > is meant for loving and for accepting all the members of the family of squid > and octopi after they have been properly dispatched, and can now deliver the > essence of the ocean to my palate. > > I love those creatures, but I don't trust them for a second. I have cleaned > them of their parrot-like beaks and I know that if the tide was turned, I > would be dispatched without the artistic grace of some fish sauce, lime, > garlic and chili. They would eat me alive. > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Yifu" <yifuxero@> wrote: > > > > My Philippina friends gave me some squid for lunch today, so I'm posting > > this to memorialize the event. I wouldn't make a habit of eating the > > creatures. They asked me if I liked squid, and I said "As long as it's > > dead". > > ... > > It turns out that squid, cuttlefish, and octopi are highly intelligent > > animals, ranking right up there with the higher primates in problem > > solving. That octopus that predicted sports events unfortunately died. I > > can feature a big tanks in the Vegas Hotels geared up to make predictions. > > > > http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/brian_mccarty_squid.jpg > > >
