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piccini9
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Post by piccini9 » Tue May 01, 2012 8:33 am

Starting small, eating the soul of a gull...
http://www.birdfellow.com/journal/2012/ ... ictoria_bc


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Post by Jaeger » Tue May 01, 2012 8:45 am

The more I learn about cephalopods the more I want to nuke the oceans.

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Post by Sisyphus » Tue May 01, 2012 9:40 am

Don't tell me you're intimidated by something that can figure out how to unscrew a jar lid in 16 seconds... Oh, wait.
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Post by piccini9 » Tue May 01, 2012 10:33 am

Sisyphus wrote:Don't tell me you're intimidated by something that can figure out how to unscrew a jar lid in 16 seconds... Oh, wait.
I know some people who can't do that.
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Post by DerGolgo » Tue May 01, 2012 10:36 am

As terrifying as Cthulhu may be, he is also rather delicious.
Roasted up on the grill but served cold, with a bit of oil, onions, a bit of salad...hmm
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Post by roadmissile » Tue May 01, 2012 10:53 am

DerGolgo wrote:As terrifying as Cthulhu may be, he is also rather delicious.
First time I had that I was in Spain, imagine full size onion rings but instead of onion they were made of Cthulhu.

Fucking delicious, I've yet to find any as good in the US :P

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Post by Jaeger » Tue May 01, 2012 12:05 pm

roadmissile wrote:
Fucking delicious, I've yet to find any as good in the US :P
Trying to get decent seafood in the middle of the country can be quite a chore -- part of the appeal of staying on the coasts. I ordered fish in Indiana once and it was the only restaurant meal I ever got that I simply could not eat -- and I was hungry too.

And yeah, fried Cthulu can be yummy -- just make sure that you eat the critter, not the other way around. :shock:

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Post by Zim » Tue May 01, 2012 12:25 pm

Jaeger wrote:Trying to get decent seafood in the middle of the country can be quite a chore -- part of the appeal of staying on the coasts.
If we keep pissing off Papa Cthulhu by eating his babies, the middle part of the country is going to be looking a damn sight better than being within tentacle reach.
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Post by DerGolgo » Tue May 01, 2012 12:39 pm

Zim wrote:
Jaeger wrote:Trying to get decent seafood in the middle of the country can be quite a chore -- part of the appeal of staying on the coasts.
If we keep pissing off Papa Cthulhu by eating his babies, the middle part of the country is going to be looking a damn sight better than being within tentacle reach.
Wait - does that mean the people who ate Cthulhu's babies are more likely to get eaten first or do you mean they'll have to suffer the horror of the great old ones awakening?
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Post by Zim » Tue May 01, 2012 2:03 pm

Both?

I'll be pooping my pants when the sea starts bubbling for sure, but I'll also be incensed that a taunting, militant vegan standing next to me doesn't have a tentacle wrapped around their waist, while I'm being dragged into the water just because of that Seafood Fra Diavlo I once (often) ordered.
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Post by Sisyphus » Tue May 01, 2012 2:09 pm

Mmmmmmm fra diavlo........

When I was in east africa I would go to the night market and get octopus on a stick. Imagine a whole leg curled up like, well, like a lolipop on a skewer, grilled. Fuckin' ay yeah.
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Post by calamari kid » Tue May 01, 2012 2:50 pm

Sisyphus wrote:Mmmmmmm fra diavlo........

When I was in east africa I would go to the night market and get octopus on a stick. Imagine a whole leg curled up like, well, like a lolipop on a skewer, grilled. Fuckin' ay yeah.
I had something similar to that in Greece. Found a little stand just off the beach that had something different every day, whatever the guy's brother in law had hauled in that morning grilled up right there. Octopus was by far my favorite.
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Post by Jaeger » Thu May 03, 2012 12:26 pm

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Apparently it's real.

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/05/that- ... Awesome%29

"Claude's shell is 15-inches across and it's estimated he's large enough to make 160 crabcakes..."

Mmmm, crabcakes...

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Post by DerGolgo » Thu May 03, 2012 12:54 pm

As usual, the Japanese are way ahead of the west, even in apocalyptic matters like this.

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Looks fierce, doesn't it? Now, you think "Yeah, that looks fierce, but I bet it's really small with them thin legs, can't weigh much..."
How about 41 pounds?

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And that isn't a man-made freak of some sort, that's just a large specimen. Johnny, you probably did good getting out while you could. Or bad, depending on where you stand on the great old ones rising and all that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_spider_crab

Also, I just remembered, the last couple of years, pretty much all indigenous sweetwater crustaceans in large parts of Germany have been pushed out by Chinese mitten crabs and a lot of the indigenous species of the North Atlantic and North Sea are being crowded out by enormous (and often genuinely radioactive, no joke) crabs moving out of the polar sea, darnit if I could remember what they are called, as luck has it, when not radioactive (though probably even then) they are apparently delicious...the plot, it thickens...
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Post by Beemer Dan » Tue May 08, 2012 3:24 pm

never going in the ocean again :shock:
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