AstroManLuca
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- Jun 24, 2004
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Get some fried calamari at a nice restaurant where they only serve the rings (no tentacles). Very normal, not weird. Done right, it's not even that tough.
dullard
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- May 21, 2001
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Squid was the single worst food item that I've ever eaten.
I was in Japan on a week-long buisiness trip. The food was god-awful (I don't like seafood of any kind). A few days in I was getting desperate to find anything that wasn't seafood. On a platter of raw fish, I saw what I thought were a few carved raddish decorations (maybe I had a bit too much sake to drown out the fish flavors). I took one and quickly shoveled it into my mouth as I was so hungry for something edible. I wasn't a radish after all. It was rolled up raw squid hood in the shape of a carved radish flower.
The thing with a sizable chunk of raw squid hood is that you can't actually swallow it. Nor, can you chew it since it is basically like chewing a slimy rotten thick leather belt. It took well over 5 mintues to finally break that thing down in my mouth enough that I could swallow a bit or two at a time. Damn it was awful. It was a buisiness dinner at a high end restaurant, so I couldn't just take it out of my mouth and place it on the floor between us. I was stuck there chewing and chewing this fishy nasty devil slab.
Yuck.
I was in Japan on a week-long buisiness trip. The food was god-awful (I don't like seafood of any kind). A few days in I was getting desperate to find anything that wasn't seafood. On a platter of raw fish, I saw what I thought were a few carved raddish decorations (maybe I had a bit too much sake to drown out the fish flavors). I took one and quickly shoveled it into my mouth as I was so hungry for something edible. I wasn't a radish after all. It was rolled up raw squid hood in the shape of a carved radish flower.
The thing with a sizable chunk of raw squid hood is that you can't actually swallow it. Nor, can you chew it since it is basically like chewing a slimy rotten thick leather belt. It took well over 5 mintues to finally break that thing down in my mouth enough that I could swallow a bit or two at a time. Damn it was awful. It was a buisiness dinner at a high end restaurant, so I couldn't just take it out of my mouth and place it on the floor between us. I was stuck there chewing and chewing this fishy nasty devil slab.
Yuck.
acheron
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- May 27, 2008
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I'm not into calamari either. (Though you should still at least try it.)
Did have a tasty bit of octopus once though. I don't remember how it was prepared, just that I liked it.
I've also had squid-ink pasta with squid in it, when I lived in Venice. Interesting, but after having it a couple times I don't really want to again.
Did have a tasty bit of octopus once though. I don't remember how it was prepared, just that I liked it.
I've also had squid-ink pasta with squid in it, when I lived in Venice. Interesting, but after having it a couple times I don't really want to again.
SunnyD
Belgian Waffler
PingSpike
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- Feb 25, 2004
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Calamari is ok. But only because you could deep fry a dog turd and it would taste ok. The squid has nothing to do with why the dish tastes good.
My wife had a whole fried soft shell crab the other day. I thought that while I would certainly eat and enjoy that should I find myself on a desert island...I wouldn't order and pay for it back here in civilization.
Its the same deal with lobster. "Oh its so good!" they scream. It tastes like nothing really, its rather flavorless...moreso then white meat chicken. Only after you soak it in butter does it become delicious and again...soak anything in enough butter and it'd probably be ok. I think people just want to believe its somehow an amazingly superior food simply because they paid a lot of money for it and had to spend 12 years busting it apart. Face it, if some one brought you out a whole boiled chicken with the feathers still on it you'd walk out...but cook a lobster alive and dump it on a plate you can charge $30 as long as you include a bib and a huge vat of cheap butter.
This will start the food snob war up again...but while I'm at it, I've never eaten at a resturant where I thought the meal was actually worth more then maybe 15 bucks. I've paid way more then that, but I didn't enjoy it anymore then I enjoyed your average entree at Chilis...and often I enjoy it less while it costs way more. And have usually been bigger douchebags there as well.
My wife had a whole fried soft shell crab the other day. I thought that while I would certainly eat and enjoy that should I find myself on a desert island...I wouldn't order and pay for it back here in civilization.
Its the same deal with lobster. "Oh its so good!" they scream. It tastes like nothing really, its rather flavorless...moreso then white meat chicken. Only after you soak it in butter does it become delicious and again...soak anything in enough butter and it'd probably be ok. I think people just want to believe its somehow an amazingly superior food simply because they paid a lot of money for it and had to spend 12 years busting it apart. Face it, if some one brought you out a whole boiled chicken with the feathers still on it you'd walk out...but cook a lobster alive and dump it on a plate you can charge $30 as long as you include a bib and a huge vat of cheap butter.
This will start the food snob war up again...but while I'm at it, I've never eaten at a resturant where I thought the meal was actually worth more then maybe 15 bucks. I've paid way more then that, but I didn't enjoy it anymore then I enjoyed your average entree at Chilis...and often I enjoy it less while it costs way more. And have usually been bigger douchebags there as well.
AreaCode707
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- Sep 21, 2001
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Calamari steak is usually not deep fried, and it is FANTASTIC. Way better than deep fried calamari tentacles. Much better than most other types of fish.
[edit] Lobster used to be the spam of the world. There were laws in some states preventing jailers from feeding it to prisoners more than x times a week.
lokiju
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- May 29, 2003
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Fried calamari is awesome!
I love that stuff.
But it's very easy to be done poorly.
Has to be extremely fresh and fried correctly, otherwise it'll be like chewing on rubber bands.
If you ever do get it, just try and get it from a higher scale place for your first time trying it.
I love that stuff.
But it's very easy to be done poorly.
Has to be extremely fresh and fried correctly, otherwise it'll be like chewing on rubber bands.
If you ever do get it, just try and get it from a higher scale place for your first time trying it.
SacrosanctFiend
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- Oct 2, 2004
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You're kidding, right? There is tons of food in Japan that does not have seafood as an ingredient.
I've tried fried calamari a few times, and I just can't make myself like it. Worse than calamari is escargot. YUCK! It's like eating old garlicky chewing gum.
Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
More description, please!
Well, as others have pointed out, calamari is very easily (and often) ill-prepared, which can lead to a soggy, tough, salty chew-fest. However, if it is prepared properly, it's very yummy, although the squid itself is rather bland; it's really a vehicle for the breading and seasonings.
Pan-fried squid (w/o breading) is yummy, although a bit chewy. Again, the squid meat itself isn't particularly flavorful and relies on the seasonings.
IMO, calamari is a yummy, fun-to-eat dish. Bit it's not like you're missing out on something special.
SacrosanctFiend
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Ns1
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- Jun 17, 2001
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if it's rubbery then it was cooked incorrectly
i love squid but you know what I didn't liek?
Squid in squid intestine marinade
dunno if this link will work
ive only had it fried, its good, but didnt really have a strong taste. id still like to have it other ways, but the only place i can get it fresh is 45 minutes away so i never think about it
- Aug 4, 2000
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I think you guys have convinced me that my anti sea monster opinion was wrong and I should eat a fried tenticle at my earliest convenience. Afterall, I did have deep fried butter battered alligator once from Papadeuxs in Fort Worth. I was apprehensive at first, but it was better than chicken!
HardcoreRobot
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eplebnista
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The couple of times I tried it were at Red Lobster's and it was pretty much tasteless with a texture similar to the cartilage in chicken, chewy.
dullard
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- May 21, 2001
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No, I am not kidding. The business partners chose all restaurants. At the restaurants, they'd ask me what I wanted to eat. I told them. They said no, and ordered what they wanted since everyone at the business meal must eat the same thing according to their policy. I don't speak more than two words in Japanese, and so I couldn't order.
I did once get what I wanted: a BLT sandwich. The bacon was raw but tasty. After Japan I have no problem eating raw pork or raw beef (I had both). But I still don't like fish (cooked or raw).
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