axlq wrote:
>
> In article >,
> Kate Connally > wrote:
> >Okay, I just couldn't say crab is one of my favorite "fish".
> >Sorry.
> >
> >All crustaceans, although I'm a little squeamish about crawdads -
> >if I could just get the meat, not in the shell . . . .
>
> Think of them as small freshwater lobsters.

Well, I do, but I just don't want to bite their heads
off and suck out their innards. And they look to much
like insects when they're whole. Actually shrimp and
lobsters do too. I'd rather just have lobster tail
and I never want to peel my own shrimp either before
or after cooking them. It's even worse if you have to
do it after they're cook, just before you eat them because
it doesn't give you any time for the memory to fade. ;-)

> They're actually easier
> to peel than lobsters. And yes, you can get them shelled.

Yeah, I guess I knew that.

> Actually rock shrimp are more like small lobsters, in taste,
> texture, and color. I've even seen restaurants advertising a
> lobster dish, where they used rock shrimp. The lobster tacos sold
> at Una Mas have no lobster in them, it's all rock shrimp.
>
> I miss living on the Maine coast... lobster is so inexpensive there
> (sigh). Even McDonald's sells lobster sandwiches in the summertime,
> and they're actually good.

Red's Eats in Wiscasset has the best lobster rolls.
All pure lobster meat - a whole lobster and you add
your own butter or mayo whichever you prefer. Of course,
it's not all that cheap compared to the other lobster
roll places. You pay the going rate which when I was
there was $12 for a lobster roll but it was worth it.

> >No molluscs, no way, no how, never in a million years.
>
> If you haven't yet tried conch fritters or baby abalone, you might
> change your mind.

No, I won't change my mind because there is no way anyone
could ever get me to try them. Sorry, I guess I'm just
prejudiced about molluscs.

> >And you can have my lifetime's share of sea urchins, and all the
> >other coelenterates, too.
>
> You gotta try Sea Cucumber, just once.

Nope, no way, Jose. It will never happen.

> Once is all *I* needed,
> although I've eaten it since (not by choice, but because someone
> served it to me). Sort of reminded me of putting a big rind of pork
> fat into my mouth, only without the greasy feeling. Ick.

I got sea urchin once by mistake in a Vietnamese restaurant
where no one spoke any English. That's what happens when you
decide to be adventurous and order something different than
what you ordered the other dozen times you were there which
by a stroke of good luck turned out to be great and so you
order it every time you go because you have no idea what
anything else is! So, I ended up with sea urchin, mostly
cut up in small pieces that you couldn't tell what they were,
but I kept getting these pieces of grit - I though they
were grains of sand or something which did not make be feel
to great about the fact that I ate at this restaurant. Finally
came across a piece big enough to see what it was. I was very
familiar with what it looked like as I had seem many of them
up close and personal in an advanced biology class I took where
we had a sea water fish tank that had some in it. Aside from
it being like eating at the beach where someone kicked sand
on your sandwich, the flavor was not to my taste either.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?