Do you ever buy live seafood?

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Perknose

Perknose

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OP, I used to see it, even in mainstream supermarkets, when I was a young kid, but those venues seem to have gone by the board.
 
Oil

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Yes. Lobsters, crabs, oysters, clams, other shellfish
 
guyver01

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Very common to see the following in supermarkets:

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That's a live lobster tank
 
NikolaeVarius

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nkgreen said:
Yeah, I had some octopus thing in Seoul that was cut up alive and served. It moves around in your mouth.
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You don't even to have to go to Seoul.

There is a place that I ate at in Queens, NY that served that. It was quite awesome.

Edit- It seems that Anthony Bourdain has been to the same place I've been. The food is tasty.
 
SithSolo1

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I've caught live seafood and had it cooked when I arrived on shore, does that count?
 
R

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Yeah, i buy fresh/live lobster sometimes from The Lobsterman in granville island.
 
Zebo

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No I catch more than I can eat. Fillet 100 fish at a time sometimes.. They are sorta alive... I put them on ice so knife cuts through meat better and sometimes they flip flop and bleed. No raw for me tho... fried or baked.
 
Kirby

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Zebo said:
No I catch more than I can eat. Fillet 100 fish at a time sometimes.. They are sorta alive... I put them on ice so knife cuts through meat better and sometimes they flip flop and bleed. No raw for me tho... fried or baked.
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Bream? Mullet? Crappie?
 
Kirby

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Zebo said:
Crappie is what I mainly catch. More a finesse classy fish plus they taste good.
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Crappie isn't super popular here. We always go for the big blue gill. My dad and grandfather slew well over double the limit a few times back when they didn't enforce it as much.
 
Zebo

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nkgreen said:
Crappie isn't super popular here. We always go for the big blue gill. My dad and grandfather slew well over double the limit a few times back when they didn't enforce it as much.
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Well you gotta throw out some brush piles and make it popular. I build full trees out of PVC pipe and 5 gal buckets with concrete in bottom. Been dumping them for years now...all marked on GPS..also willow trees are good..tie em down with concrete blocks. Crappie is best tasting fish period IMO. Walleye is close but nothing beats crappie to eat or catch since they don't really bite hard. They will tow the line or just barley hit once..About the only time they hit hard like a blue gill that's 1/4 their size is when spawning. Like I said classy fish. But they don't really dig hanging around anything but brush.
 
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BoomerD

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We went on a fishing charter that the company my wife worked for put on one fall day. We did it the smart way...drove down early, got a room in Monterey, had a nice dinner, got plenty of sleep, and had a nice breakfast before going out on the boat...Some of her bosses on the other hand, went out and got fucked-up drunk the night before...didn't eat anything before they got on the boat...and were still drunk.
As we got out a mile or so from shore, the swells picked up a bit...not rough, just a bit of up and down, up and down...the head of the HR department was a real "dick with ears" kind of guy at the office, so I decided to have fun with him...He was looking a bit green, so I asked what was the matter? "Oh, I'm feeling a bit seasick. I had too much to drink last night."

"Joe," I tell him, "I spend a lot of time on the water, and I have a sure-fire cure for hangovers and seasickness."

"Really? What is it? I need something."

So, I reach around to the live bait tank, grab a large anchovy and take a bite. The head and about half the body...and start chewing.

That was it...he was bent over the rail puking his guts out...

Once I had him puking...I had to hurry up and spit that nasty sit out...I hate anchovies...but every time he'd come up for air, I'd stick an anchovy in his face and tell him, "Here, try it, it's good for you." <RETCH!>
"You're a fucking asshole!<RETCH>

:biggrin:
 
Locut0s

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BoomerD said:
We went on a fishing charter that the company my wife worked for put on one fall day. We did it the smart way...drove down early, got a room in Monterey, had a nice dinner, got plenty of sleep, and had a nice breakfast before going out on the boat...Some of her bosses on the other hand, went out and got fucked-up drunk the night before...didn't eat anything before they got on the boat...and were still drunk.
As we got out a mile or so from shore, the swells picked up a bit...not rough, just a bit of up and down, up and down...the head of the HR department was a real "dick with ears" kind of guy at the office, so I decided to have fun with him...He was looking a bit green, so I asked what was the matter? "Oh, I'm feeling a bit seasick. I had too much to drink last night."

"Joe," I tell him, "I spend a lot of time on the water, and I have a sure-fire cure for hangovers and seasickness."

"Really? What is it? I need something."

So, I reach around to the live bait tank, grab a large anchovy and take a bite. The head and about half the body...and start chewing.

That was it...he was bent over the rail puking his guts out...

Once I had him puking...I had to hurry up and spit that nasty sit out...I hate anchovies...but every time he'd come up for air, I'd stick an anchovy in his face and tell him, "Here, try it, it's good for you." <RETCH!>
"You're a fucking asshole!<RETCH>

:biggrin:
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How did you know the bait was fresh enough to eat raw, and wouldn't make you sick as well?
 
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