Do you eat live food?

Frizz1974 said:
Oysters make my answer a yes... I've spent many hours of my life praising them off rocks and eating them standing in knee deep water.


Though the most disturbing thing I've ever watched is the videos of octopus having soy sauce poured on it and it trying to climb out of the bowl.
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:ohmy::ohmy::ohmy::ohmy::ohmy::ohmy::ohmy::ohmy:. That is just so wrong :cry:
 
I'l eat most things once working on the theory that if it doesn't eat me first I'll eat it BUT I prefer to cook it [don't believe in giving it too much of a chance]
 
Fruttes said:
Have anyone eaten fresh sushi or sashimi?

In many pure Japanese restaurants, they were alive until it is cut for you. The fresher the better.

Some sushi chef cut off a piece of meat from the fish and the fish is still alive.

Some Sashimi even served live fish - the fish is still wriggling in front of you, although the flesh had been cut.

Baby octopus is also served live in some cases, although most people avoid it.

Mantis shrimps are often served life - although it is deshelled, it still wriggles in your mouth.

Then there are sea urchin. They are still alive until they eaten.

In China, there is a dish called monkey brain - the monkey is alive until you set the brains on fire and eat it. It is very rare now, but super VIPs can eat it still.

There are live snakes as well 'just alive until it is cooked'.

For many in Asia, live food are common.
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I think everyone is referring to actually swallowing it when it is still alive. We have bought Uni live, but once you break it open to get to the gonads, I consider it dead. With few exceptions, I won't cook shellfish unless it is still alive when it goes in the pot. Once it is ready to eat, it isn't alive.
 
Frogs here are skinned alive. No-one will buy dead frogs.

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Iv'e eaten fish crab lobster, abalone etc straight from the sea,
5 minutes after being plopped onto the deck of my boat.
Very recently alive, I think that's the closest I've come.
To me if it crawls or walks on the ground or flies in the air....
it's not food, its wildlife. When its cooked.....THEN its food.
 
We have things called hu hu grubs, bit like a big caterpillar and eaten live. These taste like peanut butter. They serve them at the wild foods festival in hokitika in the South Island. I like them. I'll put up a pic in a minute.

Russ
 
I've been on fishing trips where the deckhands cut up the sides of a live fish to eat, but I didn't partake. I mean, it wouldn't have changed anything if they put it out of its misery seconds before. A quick knife through the head is all that's needed.

However, if anyone hurts my family, I would be happy to show the offender their heart and liver in true Crow (Native American) tradition as I took a bite. Lol.
 
Ive seen shows and videos of what people eat around the world.
Theres a show streaming currently, called Bugs, not only a documentary,
but its an actual cooking show about dozens of edibal types.
As yet I just havent been in the right "frame of mind" to watch it. lol

I currently estimate that we in America probably eat about 3 or 4 percent,
if that, of the edible creatures in the world. And we eat far more from the
sea and the air, than what inhabits the surface...which is just a handful
when you think about it. I know very few people here who would for
example, even consider eating a plump white, huhu grub that lives in
tree bark. Alive or not. Food psychology, or oral intake conditioning,
is a vey powerful thing.
 
Slumgullioneer said:
Ive seen shows and videos of what people eat around the world.
Theres a show streaming currently, called Bugs, not only a documentary,
but its an actual cooking show about dozens of edibal types.
As yet I just havent been in the right "frame of mind" to watch it. lol

I currently estimate that we in America probably eat about 3 or 4 percent,
if that, of the edible creatures in the world. And we eat far more from the
sea and the air, than what inhabits the surface...which is just a handful
when you think about it. I know very few people here who would for
example, even consider eating a plump white, huhu grub that lives in
tree bark. Alive or not. Food psychology, or oral intake conditioning,
is a vey powerful thing.
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Lol, people were lined up to try the huhu grubs, they were sweet and as I said tasted just like peanut butter. Yummy.
I will try most things lambs tongue, brains sweetbreads,lol.

Russ
 
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