i won't eat eyeballs
i didn't need to ask.
clearly, it was shrimp.
tiny shrimp.
unpeeled.
with eyeballs.
and feelers.
sunny said it was okay and showed me how you just pop them in your mouth and crunch, crunch, crunch them up with a smile.
i'm sorry.
korean dining rule #2: i won't eat eyeballs.
so, it was basically this here. just like this.
looked just like this!
on a plate with steamed zucchini.
would you eat this?
really, i'd like to know.
posted by erin elizabeth king @ 1:03 AM
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22 replies:
No! eww. Or anything with eyeballs or tentacles or brains or other icky not-to-be-eaten stuff still attached. But that's just me and I'm picky :)
Chris
I didn't know the outer shells of shrimp were edible. I'm actually rather curious...
Chris, if you refuse to eat tentacles, you're denying yourself the joy of deep-fried calamari! Mmm, squid...
Em: this coming to the man who wouldn't eat shrimp until I drowned it in garlic.
Have to agree with you Erin, eyeballs are icky gross. Nope, definitely won't do eyeballs...
Peel and eat shrimp are ok, but sans the eyeballs. I can't see eating the shells either...but I guess it works for soft shelled crabs, it's probably the same thing. But eyeballs staring back at me would make me lose my appetite!
There is always something icky about eyeballs! (And this comes from a person where in his culture it is customary to eat lamb's intestines!)On the other hand, if you don't know/see what you are eating in the first place, that might be a completely different story. Definitely not my first choice though...
and just imagine thanos, dozens of those little critters looking up at you while you dig in . . . ick!
Forget that. No way I am eating eyeballs. That's not just Korean food, though. Stargazer Pie comes to mind. Mr. Burns up there... please note that when eating deep fried calamari you are in fact not eating the tentacles, at least not in the U.S. Restaurants usually slice up the tube (the head and body) and fried it as if it were onion rings. Most of the time restaurants shy away from serving the tentacles due to the fact that most easily offended, pissy, snobby Americans will actually put on a drama queen show of actual illness when confronted with the prospect of eating them. Unless you make them at home or go to a restaurant that's is snobbier than its customer base you are unlikely to get the tentacles. Anyone else had a contrary experience?
P.S. I wouldn't eat the tentacles becaue they are gross and super chewy but I wouldn't put on a show about it.
sorry... rough day... i just realized i went off... it's not even cojent... i should learn to just gnub one off in the bathroom at work to relax... LOL
Mr Burns usually has to give me the tentacles off his plate. Not because he doesn't like them, but rather because I force him to. Yummy. Tentacles are the best part of calamari.
True that!
No problem, Whackly. But if you ever find yourself in Montreal, try going to Ouzeri (corner of Saint-Denis and Gilford), and order the fried calamari, served with lemon and tzatziki. Most of it is indeed composed ring-shaped slices of the head and central body, but they do throw in some tentacles, which are the yummiest and crispiest part.
PS: When Andrea steals my squid tentacles, I deprive her of Baileys as punishment.
No you don't. I can get Bailey's from you whenever I like. Actually, that statement pretty much applies to most things in this relationship.
Ahh, eyeballs. I remember this one time, at a (big surprise!) Chinese restaurant, while we were chowing down, this 6-year-old-or-so girl at another table started loudly proclaiming how much she liked fish eyeballs. Yick.
I have been served whole shrimp before. It was at (go on - guess!) a Chinese banquet. Perhaps some of my more, er, traditional cousins ate the things whole. Those of us who are more, um, Canadianized broke the heads clean off and shelled the tails. They were good, but a lot of work. And your garbage pile gets super huge really fast. :)
sucking the brains out of crawfish... how doesn that sit with everyone
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i'm going to go with no on that one too, whackly.
yeah, me too... but that's supposed to be the best part of the crawfish.. when you suck out the braind and innards through the mouth by putting the head end up to your lips and smiling like a doughnut. last night my comment somehow went through twice so i deleted the 2nd one. now it's there again. so it went through three times... i will delete the extra... blogger has been acting really bizarre lately
back to the topic... imagine how many delicious foods we are all missing out on because we won't eat the garbage parts of the animal.... speaking of which... how about chitterlings? faux gras (sp)? caviar?
Foie gras (i.e.: fatty liver).
"Faux gras" would mean "fake fat". :)
hey i eat animal garbage. yay restaurant guy! for those who don't know, that's where you can get a sa-weet hot dog. i'd probably even eat fake fat. i probably DO eat fake fat. but yeah. i'm not so down with most animal garbage parts.
Whackly, you forgot about Head Cheese. All the parts of the pig that you would never ever eat all rolled into one solid gelatinous block. At least in hot dogs you don't have an inkling of what parts went into it...
I'd like to take this opportunity to put in a woot woot for Restaurant Guy. :)
foie gras.... i pained over how to spell that for like two minutes and just decided to say screw it in the end
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