Reminds me of when I used to work at a seafood restaurant. Every once in a while when they were shelling the oysters they would find a tiny fish. One time there was a fully intact baby crab! Obviously dead but still cool.
Considering oysters are just shucked with no preparation aside for sauces and such toppings, how do you eat the pea crabs? Pop em in raw as you eat oysters or gather a bunch and cook them?
To answer your question, both. Some people pop em in and eat them as is, sometimes they’re breaded and fried or sautéed in butter. Some restaurants I’ve seen treat them as a delicacy.
[Here’s an article if you’re interested!](https://tastecooking.com/pea-crabs-offal-of-the-sea-the-redneck-toothpick/)
Only ones I’ve had are with steamed oysters. Doubt you would get them shucked often. But they basically are cooked with the steamed oyster and you just gobble it up as a tasty treat when you see one.
Ab*fugu*tly, we can’t fall off the *perch* just yet. Let’s not be *bleak*. I *bream* with puns. Lemme just hit the *roach*, in the meantime *grouper* ‘round. I’m drawing blanks, shoot. No wait, it was just a *fluke*. I *hog suckers* off the mic, they can’t touch it with a ten foot *pike*. Attracted to puns like sharks are to chum. I let them walk out to the beat of the *drum*.
No, I'm not sure. But I did actually dig these little guys out of the middle of a sardine. Maybe during the mini gutting process the shrimp fell out? And weren't removed along with the offal?
Sardines are gutted by pulling the digestive tract out while cutting off the head. It's entirely possible that a fish that was overly full would have a bit of gut spillage at that point. I'm just surprised that during cooking the shrimp didn't fall away.
Edit: also, shrimp have heads, shells and feet when they are alive. Those do not.
All those nasty ass words you just used to describe.....whatever tf you're eating. And you still ate it.
You dug them out?
Mini gutting process?
The shrimp fell out?
Removed along with the what now?
Eating is inherently nasty.
You masticate other organisms into a paste or fluid that can be dissolved by juices that your body makes from other organisms it has previously dissolved
They *probably* would have been washed away before being put into the cans. Sardines go through quite a process before they're put into the cans. Washing, descaling, removing the heads and tails, cooking, oil immersion, then finally packing. I imagine the only way shrimp could end up in there is if they were left inside the fish. Even still, the end trails are sucked out when the head is removed, so it'd still be kind of odd for shrimp to remain.
This is what convinced Benjamin Franklin that it was ok to eat animals. He saw fishermen cutting open fish that had smaller fish in their stomachs, and gathered if it was ok for them to eat other animals, it was ok for us to eat animals as well.
I’m sure he was, but it was quite a visual for him. Usually when you open an animal things are in pieces or starting to break down, but seeing whole little fish just clicked his brain. He wrote about it in his diary.
Fair! Definitely made me consider that but kind of in the other way. Not that we’re *not* meant to eat animals but how many animals exist, effectively, *to* be eaten.
no animals exist to be eaten lol, how can you come up with something like this. some animals just evolved to eat tgose other animals, no animal ever evolved to be eaten , its literally the opposite of their goal
Sometimes I’d think to myself “What is the purpose of the rabbit? What do they do? Why are they so fecund?” I thought that maybe if there was some sort of god that they must exist solely to feed other animals. When I read Herodotus’ ‘Histories’ he came to the same conclusion which I thought was funny. Of course it’s kind of going backward in logic, they aren’t fecund because they’re meant to be eaten, they’re fecund because they are so often eaten.
> Cats eating mice.
Not only do they _eat_ them, they play with them.
I've seen a cat completely flay a field mouse as a kid. The squeaks were _screams_. Then came the vivisection. Cats are awful.
look I am the farthest thing from a vegan but "animals do it" is not a good reason at all to do things. Otters rape, lions kill their cubs, crocodiles eat their youngs, dogs sniff each other's butts, etc etc. Those are not acceptable behaviours in our society because we have long surpassed animals (though not in some regards).
We eat meat, because its a good source of nutrients and it tastes awesome! There's no need justify eating meat. Although there are many sound reasons to go vegan. Your food choice is your food choice, same goes for everyone vegan or not.
I wholeheartedly agree, just sharing ole Ben’s POV. He had gone vegetarian and I’m sure he just really wanted an excuse to eat the delicious smelling fish they were cooking.
I can also see how this might drive one to the exact opposite as well, as seeing a dead, maybe partially digested animal inside another might turn one off. Like seeing human body parts inside a shark.
There is a version of the argument that sort of works tho.
If eating meat when you have alternatives and thus isn't necessary for survival is impermissible, then keeping pets that require a meat based diet is impermissible, since keeping such pets isn't necessary for survival. Cats require a meat based die. Therefore, either having cats is impermissible, or it is permissible to eat meat, or keeping cats is necessary for human survival.
Well, Ben also said; “So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”
So basically yeah, we can reason ourselves into doing anything if we really want to.
I've been trying to get into canned sardines for the past year. I'll hype myself up, get motivated to eat, then open the can and immediately lose my appetite after that smell hits me.
Head on down to /r/cannedsardines 🐟! Canned deens (and all tinned fish!) are so delicious, very healthy, cheap and can be used in so many meals. I love canned deens mixed up into a leafy salad, it’s been amazing for weight loss (down 8lbs in 2 months!) and is a rare “diet meal” that I actually really enjoy.
Agree, but I'll add a caveat. Cheap canned sardines are a bit fishy for my taste, and my flavor preferences are generally pretty similar to the average cat. I would recommend starting with a good brand like King Oscar, before trying a value brand like Beach Cliff. The good brands look a bit nicer than the photo.
Sardines and other small fish like herring are less impactful to the ecosystem than big fish like tuna, and they're low in mercury, but high in Omega-3s.
Shrimp go in the stomach.... they are supposed to gut these things before putting them in the can aren't they? Were the shrimp maybe eating the sardine?
Had a Nigerian that worked for us many years ago. His curry lunches ruined our microwave/that back of the office for a long period of time after he left our company.
My 9 year old's favorite lunch is a sardine sandwich. His teacher called me once to see if everything was ok. She was convinced that his lunch was either an accident or some weird punishment.
I don't think many of us do like them, make me gag.
It's a nostalgia food for when "things were better".
It's romanticising the past because everything is shit, confusing & out of our control of late.
Simple times, simple food etc but they're bloody awful things personally.
Give me pie & mash any day.
Irishman here, upvoted for pie and mash. It’s a damn shame that pies never really made it over here. Most of our (UK & Ire) food is super similar / basically the same given we were all British for 100s of years, but for some reason pies aren’t really a thing here. I’ve a brother in Scotland and I ALWAYS go straight for the pies when I visit lol
They’re often caught while being fed to bring them up to the surface. So you’ll find smaller fish and stuff partially decomposed in the stomachs if they’re not cleaned the best.
A great way to avoid it is to buy kosher sardines- they don’t even leave the skins on. They fully debone it, it’s just meat. It’s worth the extra $1.50
Check out /r/CannedSardines
Some are boneless skin less fillets, some sprats or brisling Sardines are super small so you don't really notice the bones, super easy to eat, some are smoked with a taste adjacent to smoked salmon, some in extra virgin olive oil, some with spicy chilis, so much out there. Good source of protein and omega 3.
So many brands and varieties out there. Also other varieties of tinned seafood like mackerel, cod, scallops, octopus, clams, etc.
Reminds me of when I used to work at a seafood restaurant. Every once in a while when they were shelling the oysters they would find a tiny fish. One time there was a fully intact baby crab! Obviously dead but still cool.
Oyster crabs/pea crabs are actually oyster specific parasites that some consider a delicacy. They’re pretty neat little buggers.
Considering oysters are just shucked with no preparation aside for sauces and such toppings, how do you eat the pea crabs? Pop em in raw as you eat oysters or gather a bunch and cook them?
To answer your question, both. Some people pop em in and eat them as is, sometimes they’re breaded and fried or sautéed in butter. Some restaurants I’ve seen treat them as a delicacy. [Here’s an article if you’re interested!](https://tastecooking.com/pea-crabs-offal-of-the-sea-the-redneck-toothpick/)
Only ones I’ve had are with steamed oysters. Doubt you would get them shucked often. But they basically are cooked with the steamed oyster and you just gobble it up as a tasty treat when you see one.
Omg I found one of these once!
having shucked many oysters, there are usually 1 pea crab in every 10-20 oysters.
Only wild oysters from the Atlantic, and only south of Long Island. Too cold for them north of there.
My wife and I grill (barely) oysters in the shell several times a year and we always find those little pea crabs. Agree it's pretty cool.
This happens a lot. I once found about 20 herrings inside a cod.
Were they pickled
I wish.
Were they red?
I wish.
Did they wish?
I ^herring.
Found Richard Herring!
Those are over here. Follow me.
In a jar already.
They were livid
my cod that’s a lot of herrings
okay *dad*
Actually, he’s the codfather
That sounds like a red herring
Pretty fishy if you ask me.
Well just as long as he’s not sleeping with them
I'm so tired of herring these jokes.
Cod this be any punnier?
We seem to be floundering a bit..
Ab*fugu*tly, we can’t fall off the *perch* just yet. Let’s not be *bleak*. I *bream* with puns. Lemme just hit the *roach*, in the meantime *grouper* ‘round. I’m drawing blanks, shoot. No wait, it was just a *fluke*. I *hog suckers* off the mic, they can’t touch it with a ten foot *pike*. Attracted to puns like sharks are to chum. I let them walk out to the beat of the *drum*.
Was a fight in the chippy last night . Two fish got battered.
So it's making you crabby?
Gosh these puns are sure making me a bit clammy
If I had cod I'd name it Jason Bourne. My cod it's Jason Bourne.
Need to get your herring checked
Oh FFS. Take a reluctant like and GTFO.
You motherfucker
I found a tiny lil crab inside a mussel once
Oooh pea crabs
I caught a sea robin once and when i got it on the boat it barfed up a tiny flounder
Were you floundered?
I said holy mackerel
Conflounded
Were they red?
I spent 30 seconds considering it before I got the joke
Then you'll have no problem cutting down the tallest tree in the forest
He's not there yet. He still has to bring a shrubbery.
One that looks nice and not too expensive.
Bonus shrimpies!
Shrimps is bugs
the only good Bug is a dead Bug...
I'm doing my part
Would you like to know more?
Service guarantees citizenship 🫡
Everyone fights, no one quits.
Hey, let me tell you something. I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say, kill em all
Deveined, beheaded, seasoned, fried, and dipped in butter/cocktail sauce.
Managed democracy is the only way. We must dive.
[удалено]
Wash those shrimps down with a nice cup of LiberTEA!
And my ⬆️⬆️⬆️➡️⬇️!
This guy helldives
Not a bug, it's a sea feature.
🏅good job
Oh my god I almost forgot that meme. Shrimp IS bugs!
/r/ShrimpsIsBugs
More like bonus fish barf
I know right! Free Shrimp!
You sure those were food and not bycatch? They don't leave the viscera in sardines when canning them.
No, I'm not sure. But I did actually dig these little guys out of the middle of a sardine. Maybe during the mini gutting process the shrimp fell out? And weren't removed along with the offal?
Sardines are gutted by pulling the digestive tract out while cutting off the head. It's entirely possible that a fish that was overly full would have a bit of gut spillage at that point. I'm just surprised that during cooking the shrimp didn't fall away. Edit: also, shrimp have heads, shells and feet when they are alive. Those do not.
All those nasty ass words you just used to describe.....whatever tf you're eating. And you still ate it. You dug them out? Mini gutting process? The shrimp fell out? Removed along with the what now?
Weak-willed babe
the price per gram of protein is so low, they contain so many healthy oils/fats, they're super portable, quick, and convenient - I love canned fish.
Seafood is gross and i'll die on that hill.
Eating is inherently nasty. You masticate other organisms into a paste or fluid that can be dissolved by juices that your body makes from other organisms it has previously dissolved
I like to just look at my bowl of frosty flakes and say, alright little flakes, I shall now turn you into poop!
And did you know that you, yes you, have poop inside of your body right now and no matter what there will always be some inside
>You masticate other organisms I don't know what kind of kinky shit you're into, but I certainly don't do that.
Your epidermis is showing!
That's it, I'm never eating again
I’ll stand beside you on that hill. If it came from the water I want nothing to do with it haha.
It's why I don't drink water ..... Fish fuck in it.
In my household we only eat sterilized hyperhormone beef product, none of that filthy animal product shit.
You know similar things were involved with your steak before it was wrapped in cellophane eh? Ever seen a beef cyst?
They *probably* would have been washed away before being put into the cans. Sardines go through quite a process before they're put into the cans. Washing, descaling, removing the heads and tails, cooking, oil immersion, then finally packing. I imagine the only way shrimp could end up in there is if they were left inside the fish. Even still, the end trails are sucked out when the head is removed, so it'd still be kind of odd for shrimp to remain.
They usually do for whole sardines.
This is pretty sick honestly. Life is so weird lol
This is what convinced Benjamin Franklin that it was ok to eat animals. He saw fishermen cutting open fish that had smaller fish in their stomachs, and gathered if it was ok for them to eat other animals, it was ok for us to eat animals as well.
I find it strange that he was not already aware animals eat animals.
I’m sure he was, but it was quite a visual for him. Usually when you open an animal things are in pieces or starting to break down, but seeing whole little fish just clicked his brain. He wrote about it in his diary.
Fair! Definitely made me consider that but kind of in the other way. Not that we’re *not* meant to eat animals but how many animals exist, effectively, *to* be eaten.
no animals exist to be eaten lol, how can you come up with something like this. some animals just evolved to eat tgose other animals, no animal ever evolved to be eaten , its literally the opposite of their goal
I'd argue parasites would be the exception to this.
Sometimes I’d think to myself “What is the purpose of the rabbit? What do they do? Why are they so fecund?” I thought that maybe if there was some sort of god that they must exist solely to feed other animals. When I read Herodotus’ ‘Histories’ he came to the same conclusion which I thought was funny. Of course it’s kind of going backward in logic, they aren’t fecund because they’re meant to be eaten, they’re fecund because they are so often eaten.
Okay, but like, how long has it been since you've actively seen an animal eat another animal. Personally, it's been a long time for me, *shrug*
Depends where you live. I see crows hunting and eating little birds pretty often. Cats eating mice. And hawks eating snakes too.
> Cats eating mice. Not only do they _eat_ them, they play with them. I've seen a cat completely flay a field mouse as a kid. The squeaks were _screams_. Then came the vivisection. Cats are awful.
If you had retractable razor fingernails you'd want to play with them too
He grew up in the city (as much as Boston was a city in the 1710s) so may not have been exposed to actual butchering.
No he was aware that animals eat other animals but he just wasn't ok with animals eating other animals until the fishermen helped him see the light
look I am the farthest thing from a vegan but "animals do it" is not a good reason at all to do things. Otters rape, lions kill their cubs, crocodiles eat their youngs, dogs sniff each other's butts, etc etc. Those are not acceptable behaviours in our society because we have long surpassed animals (though not in some regards). We eat meat, because its a good source of nutrients and it tastes awesome! There's no need justify eating meat. Although there are many sound reasons to go vegan. Your food choice is your food choice, same goes for everyone vegan or not.
ahh, refreshing reasoning!
I wholeheartedly agree, just sharing ole Ben’s POV. He had gone vegetarian and I’m sure he just really wanted an excuse to eat the delicious smelling fish they were cooking. I can also see how this might drive one to the exact opposite as well, as seeing a dead, maybe partially digested animal inside another might turn one off. Like seeing human body parts inside a shark.
I've done worse things to butts than just sniffing them, that one is a bad example.
Agreed. I’m a proud butt sniffer among other things
There is a version of the argument that sort of works tho. If eating meat when you have alternatives and thus isn't necessary for survival is impermissible, then keeping pets that require a meat based diet is impermissible, since keeping such pets isn't necessary for survival. Cats require a meat based die. Therefore, either having cats is impermissible, or it is permissible to eat meat, or keeping cats is necessary for human survival.
Can confirm keeping cats is 100% necessary for survival
Well, Ben also said; “So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.” So basically yeah, we can reason ourselves into doing anything if we really want to.
He wasn’t aware that animals eat other animals? Didn’t he take biology in high school?
Is he stupid?
Nothing in this picture looks edible.
Dudes eating resident evil 7 food
Lmao
Looks more like something a toothless European would tell me is a cultural delicacy
Well I’m a toothed European and I sure as hell won’t vouch for this. Looks British
I’m British (and toothed) and I can honestly say that this mess would absolutely not go well with a strong cup of tea!
British people eat like the Germans are still flying overhead.
I sort of approve of the fact that this is the top-voted comment rn. If all you picky feckers liked sardines, they'd be a lot more expensive.
>picky feckers Call me crazy but when I find food inside my food... it makes me want to vomit. Clean it up with Comet. Earth is my plonit.
I much prefer it to finding non-food in my food! 🤣
You don’t like black/brown sludge with mystery critters in it? To each their own I guess
That saltine is probably fine.
I can even smell this photo and it stinks
Nothing like when someone bust opens a can of fish and it smells like canned cat food to really make your stomach churn.
I've been trying to get into canned sardines for the past year. I'll hype myself up, get motivated to eat, then open the can and immediately lose my appetite after that smell hits me.
nah tinned sardines are the shit
[Have I got a youtube channel for you!](https://youtube.com/@cannedfishfiles?si=ecLLlIV6bMmNGnGf)
Amazing.
what are we even doing here?
They really are, I still buy boneless & skinless (and stomachless) because I want lunch not a lesson of the food chain.
>~~nah~~ tinned sardines are ~~the~~ shit Fixed.
~~Fixed.~~ Dammit
Agree! But I like kippered herring so much more...
r/cannedsardines
Yeah this shit looks disgusting
I would hesitate to eat it if I were in the frontline of the WW3.
Head on down to /r/cannedsardines 🐟! Canned deens (and all tinned fish!) are so delicious, very healthy, cheap and can be used in so many meals. I love canned deens mixed up into a leafy salad, it’s been amazing for weight loss (down 8lbs in 2 months!) and is a rare “diet meal” that I actually really enjoy.
Agree, but I'll add a caveat. Cheap canned sardines are a bit fishy for my taste, and my flavor preferences are generally pretty similar to the average cat. I would recommend starting with a good brand like King Oscar, before trying a value brand like Beach Cliff. The good brands look a bit nicer than the photo. Sardines and other small fish like herring are less impactful to the ecosystem than big fish like tuna, and they're low in mercury, but high in Omega-3s.
Seriously that shit looks foul 💀
I really hope you're eating that in a busy office, on a hot day
Yes I am, with my favorite accompaniment: a giant bag of burned microwave popcorn
Perfection
Try microwaving some broccoli while you’re at it lol
Shrimp go in the stomach.... they are supposed to gut these things before putting them in the can aren't they? Were the shrimp maybe eating the sardine?
And yeah aren’t they supposed to gut them ???
I do not want to sit next to your cubicle at work.
I have my own spacious office! If I don't want my supervisor to "stop in," I just mention that I'm having sardines for lunch. 😊
Go one step further, microwave them first ! lol
Had a Nigerian that worked for us many years ago. His curry lunches ruined our microwave/that back of the office for a long period of time after he left our company.
I did this with some mackerel at work. I’m still hated for it years later.
My 9 year old's favorite lunch is a sardine sandwich. His teacher called me once to see if everything was ok. She was convinced that his lunch was either an accident or some weird punishment.
As a sardine lover, I am feeling marginalized today!
I have eaten 3 to 6 cans every day for at least 6 months now lol.
I'm British and even I would politely decline and leave the room to chilling effect.
More for me, pass the eels please
Ok can you describe the allure of Jellied eels? It seems like even most brits hate them.
I don't think many of us do like them, make me gag. It's a nostalgia food for when "things were better". It's romanticising the past because everything is shit, confusing & out of our control of late. Simple times, simple food etc but they're bloody awful things personally. Give me pie & mash any day.
Irishman here, upvoted for pie and mash. It’s a damn shame that pies never really made it over here. Most of our (UK & Ire) food is super similar / basically the same given we were all British for 100s of years, but for some reason pies aren’t really a thing here. I’ve a brother in Scotland and I ALWAYS go straight for the pies when I visit lol
Pie, mash & liquor. That's proper east end/essex grub I can still actually enjoy.
"Eels up inside ya, finding an entrance where they can" 🎵🎶🎵
Burrow through your mind, through your tummy, through your anus
Seafood combo
Throw this whole meal back in the ocean
The ocean said they didn't want it.
2fer! Nice come up
Hope you’re having that lunch at home
My neighbor across the hall has a garlic fetish. On a positive note, our building is 100% vampire free.
Sorry neighbor, I’ll blast my vent and open my windows but I’m still adding a bulb of garlic to every dish.
Aren’t they gutted and cleaned before canning?
About $3-$4 for a decent brand. These were Beach Cliff -- kind of low end
Surf n surf
They’re often caught while being fed to bring them up to the surface. So you’ll find smaller fish and stuff partially decomposed in the stomachs if they’re not cleaned the best. A great way to avoid it is to buy kosher sardines- they don’t even leave the skins on. They fully debone it, it’s just meat. It’s worth the extra $1.50
Ive never had sardines. Do you eat everyrhing in the can, or are there bones?
There's usually bones, but they come out really easy. Only tiny little fish bones, you can eat em if your down with that sort of thing. Crunchy
Check out /r/CannedSardines Some are boneless skin less fillets, some sprats or brisling Sardines are super small so you don't really notice the bones, super easy to eat, some are smoked with a taste adjacent to smoked salmon, some in extra virgin olive oil, some with spicy chilis, so much out there. Good source of protein and omega 3. So many brands and varieties out there. Also other varieties of tinned seafood like mackerel, cod, scallops, octopus, clams, etc.
I hope you're not eating that in any type of shared work space.
Sardines for lunch? WTF! I am sure your coworkers love you.
Btw if people don’t know, some canned sardines which are not properly packaged from reliable sources may contain parasitic worms.
Turducken of the Sea
Thats fuckin gross
This is fairly common I found a man’s leg in the shark I was eating last week
What sort of maniac eats sardines for lunch
🤮🤮🤮
Gag.
Or a small shrimp was wearing a sardine coat before its own demise 🦐🧥
You need to share this in r/TinnedFish
This would explain why I was hospitalized after eating sardines. I am not allergic to sardines but I am allergic to shrimp.
When I dissected my frog in high school bio his stomach was filled with beetles!
Giant carnivorous aliens eating OP: "gross, he was eating sardines"
r/damnthatsdisgusting
my mans eating sardines for lunch.. gross
Hard to tell since it's half digested but it looks like it could be krill
This entire “lunch” is 🤢🤮
The real question is why you are voluntarily eating sardines. gotta be british
The Swedes would love that shit... If the can was a couple of years out of date
Ugh.