and that don’t really want to be eaten:
To his surprise the urchin was delicious. Very soft texture. The squid would have been good but the suckers are boney and made it very crunchy — in a bad way. And also one could feel the suckers hanging on to one’s tongue.
Frankly, while Geeklawyer admires the instinct for self-preservation the squid should have realised that it had already been cut up already and was not going to go home: Geeklawyer would have respected it more if it had reflected on it’s fate with insouciant calm and gone to it’s maker with dignity.
Aw, man. I can’t believe you ate an urchin! Those little guys are so cool and you went and scooped out his brains.
Mmmm, brains.
The google ad for this one is a classic
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I have to say that didn’t look particularly appetising, especially the little tentacles! Eww and ew ew ew.
And I thought you were a mad bastard for climbing Fuji!
Ewwwww.
Ewwwww.
And ewwwwwww again.
I remember dissecting urchins at uni (the type you ate, not the cute, street-tyke type) and they stank. Not something that’d make me think ‘mmmm, foodstuff!!’.
You are a loon.
Perhaps they’d been sitting in your class a little long?!
Though I’ve never felt any desire to eat them, the little critters that wash up on the beaches near where I live rarely have an odor (well the fresh living ones anyway). Could it have been the overwhelming stench of your student armpit wafting up to greet you?
My armpits were fresh and delightful, in a ladylike way — I was a biological science student, not one of the great unwashed Arts students…
Mayhap the solution they had been preserved in, or the length of time they had been awaiting our knives was the cause, but they did indeed stink — we argued mightily over who had to dissect the urchin or the starfish.
Small street urchins would have been more appetising.
Not only more appetizing but more fun *and* more educational: they’ve got more stuff in them and are physically bigger. Blimey even I could dissect a chav, with a garden trowel. Still, not allowed to are we? Bleedin’ political correctness again innit?
No really I’m not. They did taste nice. I’ve eaten a lot of sushi this few weeks and some of it is an acquired taste (which I’ve mostly acquired) but the urchin was immediately enjoyable to any Western palate. It was crumbly & delicate in texture (how the fuck you dissect that I don’t know) and it was an almost sweet flesh.
I’m with Mary: you must have had old urchins or perhaps a cheap uni “for dissection by students only’ version. Not a loon at all.
I have an urchin at home and he smells lovely. Street urchins are the ones that smell bad.
this reminds me of your first attempts at fishing in Paluse, Lithuania. Even then you seemed to have taken quite a bit of pleasure out of the tiny fish’s attempts at life.
http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/08/16/postcard-2-from-lithuania/
Ah, you are ahead of me — that was my thought too. Except that in Palusa the fish was dead after it came out of the microwave. If it hadn’t have been it would would have been too tough to fuck with anyway.
Though I am extremely curious when it comes to matters culinary, I don’t think I could actually do this, bieng an animal lover, vegitarian and all round wimp.…..
It’s a shame that pork scratchings don’t move and wiggle like this.
Heavens, what a thought. I’d never leave the pub — stuff the booze, I’d just be eating the pork scratchings.