[Sca-cooks] lampreys

[H Westerlund-Davis]

Okay, sneezing lampreys rank right up there with squealing crawfish.
I have had hagfish and it was very good. Lampreys?? They always remind me of oceanic leaches. 
Aelina... 

 


 
 
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From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 9:02:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] lampreys


On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

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> On Dec 11, 2009, at 12:21 AM, H Westerlund-Davis wrote:
> 
>> This brings up a previous conversation my husband and I have had regarding foods like this... what would possess a person to not only try eating a lamprey, hagfish, tomatos et al. and then create dishes with these ingredients?
>> Aelina
> 
> I'm not sure anyone ever ate hagfish with any regularity. As for lampreys, chop off its head and for culinary (and even anatomical) purposes it's an eel.

Aaaaactually, hagfish are apparently a delicacy in Korea. They're really quite cool, unlike lampreys which are just icky. They're oceanic vacuum cleaners, eating dead things off the sea floor. Did you know that they can sneeze? And they tie themselves in knots?

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Eptatretus_stouti.html

Margaret FitzWilliam, hagfish apologist
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