Lobsters are sea cockroaches. You wouldn't eat a cockroach would you?
Of course not.
Now put down the lobsters, you sick demented food freakz.
Forget lobster, I want to eat that animal featured in 'Stargate' (1994), when the military team visited the local city!
shareI've never eaten Lobster but would like to try it at least once. I never had it growing up as it's always so expensive. Most exotic seafood I've eaten is Shark. It's very salty.
shareLobster really isnt that expensive unless you're ordering it at a restaurant, where it's insanely marked up. Cooking it at home can be cheaper than a good steak.
I've had black tip and mako shark. Very similar to swordfish. Not something to eat regularly due to high mercury levels.
lobsters are overrated
shareNo, I don't want to eat a lobster. It's disgusting.
shareLobster looks like roaches and shrimp looks like worms which is the reason I've never eaten them.
shareQuite frankly the "cockroach of the sea" concept is Jewish propaganda which comes from kosher laws in the Torah.
Leviticus 11:9-12share
These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you. You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.
Interesting, I wonder why?
I understand some really old cultures being afraid of eating pork, sanitary storage of a big butchered hog was probably impossible but shellfish are pretty easily eaten up in one meal.
I imagine because shellfish are bottom feeders. Maybe there was a similar problem to pork in terms of preservation.
shareFried Roach:
First, put the cockroach in a plastic, sealable baggie and put it in the freezer for 5 minutes (to ensure the cockroach is dead).
Wash the cockroach and dry it on a sheet or paper towel.
Heat a frying pan with some olive oil.
Fry the cockroach until it is brown and crispy.
Remove the oil, turn off the heat, and add a small amount of sugar and soy sauce.
When the sugar melts and turns into caramel, take the cockroach out of the pan and onto a plate, ready to serve.
Roach Stir-fry:
Ingredients
7-10 American Cockroaches (periplaneta Americana), or 5 hissing cockroaches
1 onion
1 green pepper
5 cups of rice
2 teaspoons of ginger powder (fresh ginger can be substituted and is actually preferred)
Vegetable oil
Salt (to taste)
Directions
Make sure to remove the wings and legs of the roaches. These will not be needed in the recipe.
Boil the rice
In a wok, add about three teaspoons of vegetable oil. Heat the oil, add the vegetables and heat for three to five minutes. You will want the vegetables to be crisp.
In a separate pan, heat about three more tablespoons of vegetable oil and fry the cockroaches about 30 seconds to a minute (do not over-fry them, they cook quickly).
Place cockroaches into the stir-fry and serve on top of the rice.
A variation to this recipe could be to dice the vegetables and make fried rice.
Roach Spread:
Simply simmer cockroaches in vinegar then boil with butter, farina flour, pepper and salt to make a paste.
Spread on buttered bread.
Roach Taco/Burrito:
Remove wings & legs from cockroaches.
Wash cockroaches in water.
Cook roaches with beef or chicken.
Add the elements of your favorite taco/burrito recipe.
Cockroach Fondu:
Remove wings & legs from cockroaches.
Wash cockroaches in water.
Boil for 10 minutes.
Dip cockroaches in melted chocolate
I can’t even imagine what those taste like 🤮🤢🤮🤢
But I’m convinced if you repackaged those recipes under trendy names like “smoked artisanal land-lobster” you could make a small fortune at Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods.
Nasty.
shareHas anyone here ever eaten Conch?
I'm watching a true crime series and a Haitian detective stops in a Miami area eatery and orders the Conch and seems to LOVE it. Must be a Carrebean thing as I don't see it available around here.
Any good?
I've never eaten conch. But it's kewl that it's pronounced "conk".
I've eaten abalone and it's delicious.
I love the shellfish, I'd certainly try some Abalone if given the chance.
I like fish and shellfish overall but freshwater Bass and Soft Shelled Crab were not to my liking.
There's only one seafood I've ever tasted but didn't like.
Have you ever eaten sea cucumber? It's rubbery and looks like an uncircumcised penis with little nubs allover it.
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I've only heard of it. It does look pretty gnarly, no thanks!
shareSea cucumber is nasty. I don't even know about the taste, it was in a spicy Chinese sauce but it had the texture of what i image pickled slugs taste like
shareAbalone is occasionally available in California restaurants, but nobody I'm close to will eat it. We all want to save it for the ultra-cute sea otters, who live on shellfish.
As a food, abalone is reputed to be so rubbery that it has to be pounded with mallets to be edible. Yuck.
I used to eat abalone in ceviche off a Mexican lunch truck at work. Yes, it has a reputation for being rubbery. However, prepared Mexican style by the great cook on of all things a lunch truck! it was tender and delicious. If you tasted abalone like I tasted abalone, you would have stole it from a sea otter.
shareBut sea otters are the cutest species on Earth! They play and snuggle in the offshore kelp beds, right where the humans can see them, if they have good birding binoculars!!!
So they can have all the abalone and other local shellfish! And not just because they're so cute, but because they're a keystone species. Without them, the ecological balance of the kelp beds go to hell, as happened while I was a kid, and all the fish species that breed there decline, as do the seals and other p redators who live on fish... including the local fishermen.
So, don't eat California abalone.
Well this was years ago off a Mexican lunch truck when I worked in LA's garment district.
So yeah, as a native Californian, protecting endangered species is more important than lunch.
I wonder if there's a way they can farm abalone.