Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
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Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
A couple of days ago, there was a little bit of a dispute, in response to my first mantis shrimp blog entry, about whether people eat mantis shrimp. It turns out that the Italians do indeed eat mantis shrimp. Here’s one recipe: Canocchie alla Pezza.
It will be noted, however, that this recipe does not call for the use of tawdry cocktail sauce. Instead, it suggests lemon, garlic, salt and olive oil. A much lighter taste.
For a better read, catch the same blogger’s visceral repulsion to the stomatopod, in her article entitled: The Horrible Mantis Shrimp. Fun fact from that article: A few mantis shrimp species have sufficient strength in their front claws to break through the glass of aquarium tanks, and scuttle around your home in fury for a while before dying.
Another blogger, Astron, refers to mantis shrimp meat as “tender and sweet”. Oh, the humanity!
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September 30th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
You mean, oh, the stomatopodanity!
October 1st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Lemon, garlic, salt and olive oil….aaaahhh.
But the Mantis shrimp is basically eaten by poor people and is known to frequent contaminated waters. So why would I want to waste my lovely green cold-pressed Middle Eastern olive oil on that horrible creature?
Maybe the recipe could be altered for my latest discovery: frozen imitation crab meat.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
These days, Iroquois, are there anything but contaminated waters?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Does the bear shit in the woods?
But yes there are waters safe for seafood. People do monitor heavy metals etc., and some bodies of water used for municipal drinking are actually safer than they were a hundred years ago.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Which isn’t saying much.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I tried a little salt, olive oil and fresh garlic from the garden last night with my imitation crab and some Italian spaghetti. In the absence of lemon, substituted zattar, an Arabic mixture of herbs.
Woke up with zits. Very embarrassing at my age, so I went back to “tawdry” cocktail sauce with zero grams of fat per serving. Then a guy at least ten years my junior offered to father children for me. Perhaps the cocktail sauce was not such a good idea after all.
Or perhaps it was just in my stars.
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:36 am
It’s probably the imitation crab. Don’t blame the salt, oil and garlic.
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:26 pm
But it was on sale. You can get a pound of the stuff for a dollar fifty. That’s even cheaper than canned tuna, which will cost 79 cents for a six ounce can.
And I see from the label four pieces contain only one gram of fat. And it’s make out of something called surimi and golden threadfin bream with some crab extract thrown in. In China. Ooops. If it comes from China, it’s safe, right?
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
[…] while ago, I published an article explaining that mantis shrimp can be eaten, as much as many of us might like to see them […]