A little question about sea food


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Pic of barnacles

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Chinese folks living in the shore of the Pacific are used to have barnacles as one of their sea food, because it tastes delicious. I'd like to know if it is availabe in local markets in your country if you are also living in/near the shore of the sea.

Barnacles, for seagoing ships or docks are so boring, but it is good that poor people to have them as food; plus, the shells of them can be used as raw material of calcareousness.

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Geez. I would NOT eat those. Not even if you paid me to. :x

Hehe, what you saw was the shells of barnacles, which look ugly. And what the folks ate was the flesh of them.

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theyre just crappy parasites that attach themselves to the hulls of ships and bug mammals like whales. Theyre a bitch to get off and need special tools etc. I live near portsmouth england and you often see ships in the dock and people tryin to scrape the little feckers off lol. I wouldnt go eatin 'em :x

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I live close to several beaches and have not once seen at any of them selling those as food on the piers. :blink:

I didn't know people even eat them until now.

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They sell them in Chinatown in San Fran, as well as 99 Ranch market in El Cerrito around here (along with 400 other kinds of live seafood)

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theyre just crappy parasites that attach themselves to the hulls of ships and bug mammals like whales. Theyre a bitch to get off and need special tools etc. I live near portsmouth england and you often see ships in the dock and people tryin to scrape the little feckers off lol. I wouldnt go eatin 'em :x

had to scrape plenty myself on my first job when I was 12, at a marina here

nasty things, eat em?

unh uh nosir :no:

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The barnacles in the second pic cost about US$20 per kilogram in hotels in China! While chicken just costs about US$3 there. Got it? Sir?

Thou shall not be naive, BOOG. ;)

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