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Benny Bunter
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I'm in heaven
Benny Bunter
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Loved them, a bit like those razor clams you get but with a lot more flavour, plus they were nice and easy to eat. There are still 3 oysters left in the fridge cos nobody could open the fuckers, my partner nearly nearly cut her fingers off grappling with one of them. I mean they're tasty but not really worth maiming yourself over.
IdleRich
IdleRich
Yeah very common here, the best seafood restaurants will have a lobster tank and another tank for the lobsters with no claws (spiny lobster I think) and another for crab. They will have numerous types of prawns laid out on ice as well as oysters and percebes and so on. The most expensive by weight are either the percebes (as discussed) or the giant tiger prawns (fair enough they are almost as big as a small lobster and have more meat for the size) or possibly scarlet shrimp. You're supposed to make sure you suck out all the brains and the eyes and stuff when you eat the latter, I guess to get some value for your money.
It's kinda confusing when talking about this cos people use the names differently. They sell crayfish in a lot of places (also very expensive) but that's the sea thing from Nordic waters. We do have the invasive species here and apparently there are lakes where you can catch loads by putting a lamp to attract them and just grabbing them when they come, but I've never seen them in a restaurant.
One thing I've only had once is a bruxa (which means witch) shrimp. In a restaurant called appropriately enough Sea of Hell (Mar do Inferno). Despite looking basically like a cockroach they were very tasty (and, yeah, very expensive).
IdleRich
IdleRich
Oysters are one of the only things that are more expensive in Portugal than in the UK. When I lived in Hackney there was a restaurant round the corner that had ten different types of oyster and they were a pound each at certain times, you just wrote how many of each type you wanted and they kept bringing them, there was also a shot with an oyster and tabasco in it, really fucking nice. In Portugal you can pretty much never get an oyster for less than 2 euros.
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He's very self indulgent isn't he?
Don't get me started!
Gorging himself on oysters, blinking out their bivalve souls, £1 at a time, neutralizing their corruption in a spangled maelstrom of recreational drugs and gut juice.
And all the while, millions of people in the Global South, one bony hand outheld in pleading, the other rubbing their kwashiorkored bellies in want.
Gorging himself on oysters, blinking out their bivalve souls, £1 at a time, neutralizing their corruption in a spangled maelstrom of recreational drugs and gut juice.
And all the while, millions of people in the Global South, one bony hand outheld in pleading, the other rubbing their kwashiorkored bellies in want.
mixed_biscuits
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I want those genes dammit!
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