Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[Bhairitu]

When I moved here there was one downtown restaurant that served a 
humongous calamari sandwich.  It was a hit with guests I took there.  
The calamari steak was almost as big as the plate it was served on and 
very tender.  The owner got tired of running the restaurant so closed 
down.  But another place a couple miles away now serves the same 
sandwich and guests ask to eat there.

On 07/08/2011 08:03 PM, fflmod wrote:


 Delicious. When I was a kid, there was a tradition that we kids could choose 
 what we wanted to have for dinner for our birthdays. It was usually squid. 
 Took a long time for my mother and grandmother to prepare it, so not a common 
 item.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Yifuyifuxero@...  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

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[fflmod]

Delicious. When I was a kid, there was a tradition that we kids could choose 
what we wanted to have for dinner for our birthdays. It was usually squid. Took 
a long time for my mother and grandmother to prepare it, so not a common item.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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


Unfortunately I've eaten an octopus or two in my life. Never again :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya85knuDzp8

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[nablusoss1008]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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.


Let's hope their spirits will leave you alone when you have left the body :-)


 http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/brian_mccarty_squid.jpg

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[raunchydog]

Fabulous writing, Curtis. Love your food porn.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[turquoiseb]

Food porn. Perfect. You should write for Bon Vivant, Curtis. :-)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@...
wrote:

 Fabulous writing, Curtis. Love your food porn.

 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[curtisdeltablues]

Thanks Yifu, Raunchy and Barry.  I am thinking of submitting it to,

Snuff Food Porn Magazine:  For people who love their food to death!







--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote:

 Food porn. Perfect. You should write for Bon Vivant, Curtis. :-)
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@
 wrote:
 
  Fabulous writing, Curtis. Love your food porn.
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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
   
  
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[martyboi]

Squid  - marinated in it's own black ink sauce nothing compares!

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[curtisdeltablues]

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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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

[FairfieldLife] Re: squid

[Yifu]

brilliant essay! (I'll pass on the blowfish, but pass the tilapia and lapu 
lapu).
http://www.abouterp.com/erpsystemswordsb/images/Blowfish.jpg


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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