Clam, Crab: hazards of eating other no-longer-living beings

[azurelunatic]

Last night while eating at the China Star in, um, *looks at map* Chandler, votania had some of the clams. She likes seafood more than I do.

She discovered that one of her dinner clams had, shortly before being harvested, eaten a very small baby crab. It was very small, very cute, and (of course) very dead.

It was sufficiently cool that we wrapped it in a napkin (and later put it in an empty fortune cookie bag and tied it in my handkerchief) and brought it home. We'll put it in a little jar with some kind of preservative or other, and let Little Fayoumis take it to school for show-and-tell. Someone always brings in something delightfully gross like that.

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Crabs

[hasfartogo.livejournal.com]

My friend Tak went home to Japan for a family visit. My claim to fame in their household is I'll eat anything once. (His wife's mother sends all sort of things from Osaka, famous for it's plums.) So he put it to the test and he brought home some local snacks - candies crabs. They were cooked and coated with something semi-sweet. They tasted crunchy and salty, not bad really. I think if I can eat the local's junk food, I could survive a couple years in Japan.

Re: Crabs

[azurelunatic]

That one sounds interesting.

As far as unusual junk foods go, I don't think I'll ever try any kind of ants. I'll leave those to my late hen, thanks much.