Random food question

[Undertow]

So does anyone else find that every now and again they get MASSIVE cravings for seafood? (I'm not pregnant btw) Like for me its those little pots of tuna with corn, or chilli or other flavourings. I can eat like six of those in a sitting, though my breath is a bit shocking afterwards hahah :lol:

[Alveric]

Mmmm...crabcakes!

[Princess Kae-Leah]

Um, no!!! I do not eat ANY seafood, for environmental/ethical reasons. For this mermaid, FISH ARE FRIENDS, NOT FOOD! ;)

[AniaR]

I actually dont eat any seafood either, not for ethical reason- though if I enjoyed it I might opt out for ethical reasons lol. I just do not like it, i cant even stand the smell of it hahaha and I live in a mega seafood town!

[Princess Kae-Leah]

Must be tough, Raina! I know fishing is a BIG part of NS's economy, right? I live in a coastal region as well, but commercial fishing really isn't the be-all, end-all of our local economy the way it is in some other places. I hate the smell of seafood as well! For those of you who enjoy seafood, I have a question for you: how can you get past the smell?

[Alveric]

Some are friends, some are food, just like with land animals. Let's not be judgemental, especially towards new merfolk who may not be aware of some mers' passionate opinions.

Alveric

[Princess Kae-Leah]

I'm not being judgmental, I'm just honestly curious. Do you seafood lovers genuinely like the smell, or are you able to overlook it because you enjoy the taste so much? I do not think eating seafood makes someone a "bad" person, and I try very hard to do my best to respect others' differences, so it can be kinda hurtful to me when people don't realize that I'm not meaning to be disrespectful or judgmental.

[Alveric]

I know you well enough to see you'd never be intentionally hurtful. I was afraid Undertow would attract criticism for her love of seafood. I jumped in first to show she's not alone in loving it. When someone announces that they do or refrain from doing something for ethical reasons, it implies those who disagree are unethical. We should be careful about that. All seafood doesn't come from evil corporations. But please don't feel bad, you are a good person with strong feelings.

As for the smell, most seafood that is fresh and well prepared has little smell.

Alveric

[Princess Kae-Leah]

If I start an "in character" blog, I think I'm gonna say that there are both herbivorous/vegetarian merfolk and omnivorous/fish-eating merfolk, as I realize it is a tough issue, since there are both mers like me who feel strongly about not eating seafood as part of their mer-lifestyle, and mers who feel the opposite, and feel drawn to seafood and find eating it makes them feel more "mermaidy".

[LordsofSalem]

I'm veggie, but I've never liked seafood. The smell and taste grossed me out too much.
Plus, I saw "Finding Nemo" pretty young and ever since then, fish are friends, not food.

[Mermaid Photine]

I can't stand the smell of most seafood, but I am always up for shrimptoast. I love shrimptoast from our local chinese takeout. It is deliciousness. Too bad it's really unhealthy (lots of oil) and therefore only a rare treat. :)

[New York Mermaid]

LOL Undertow, I get those massive cravings for Shrimp Scampi and Snow (or King) Crab legs.. I probably eat it once every what 4 months or so. I dont eat fish at all, And im allergic to Squid ..I dunno why but thats what my Epi-Pen is for, just in case.. Calamari is my worst enemy, well besides drift nets

[Joy&RaptorsUnrestrained!]

Seafood doesn't really smell, particularly when cooked or prepared. And really, vegetables and meat, not to mention dairy and fruit all smell when they're left out in the air and exposed to decomposing agents.

Salmon especially has a very mild flavor and is very healthy for you, and octopus and sepia and calamari tastes fairly bland, if chewy, without breading or flavoring to make it taste better. Flounder also tastes good. I'm somewhat less likely to eat crustaceans, though, particularly not shrimp (crabs can be good every so often, though) just because I'm not crazy about their taste. Undertow, it's less of a craving for me, so much as feeling refreshed after eating fish the way I don't when eating other food.

[Undertow]

Fish are friends not food....hahah I havent heard that in awhile
Thats actually an intresting notion, vegetarian mermaids who only eat kelp and stuff. I like it.
Personally Im on a seafood diet....I see food and I eat it!!!
But everyone is entitled to do (or in this case eat) what they want and I dont think we should judge people who swing either way

[Odette]

i was thinking about this today. and the first though i also went to was "fish are friends, not food" lol!
this should now be a support thread for fish cravings. :p

[babsannee]

Honestly, I adore the smell of fresh fish. But my family was built off of fishing. (Fun fact! My great-grandfather invented the fish-stick! And THOSE are just as gross as you would imagine.)

[Winged Mermaid]

I get massive cravings for crab! Also sushi. Sooo much sushi cravings! I learned to roll my own so now I can make some whenever :D

Also for those non fish eating mers- roasted seasoned seaweed is AMAZING. BETTER THAN POTATO CHIPS. YOU WILL BE ADDICTED. People laugh at that statement then they try them and they are hooked! You can get them at Trader Joes and at Japanese markets.

[New York Mermaid]

LOL SeaFood Eaters Unite

Man all this seafood talk i think ill be heading for some beer battered shrimp tomorrow..

[Undertow]

Ooooh roasted seaweed. That sounds disgusting and yet I'd still try it hahah. Not that fussed on sushi or sashimi but yeah fish mmmmmm

[ShyMer]

Yay roasted seaweed! You can get them in different flavors, like wasabi or thai shrimp. Very tasty :)

[SireniaSolaris]

Personally, I am a fan of seafood. I agree that when fish is really fresh, there is no smell. When I do come across a smelly fish, it tends to kill my appetite for it.

While I could probably eat sushi every day, for health reasons, I limit myself to no more than 3 times a week - usually 2. I do, however, enjoy seaFOOD daily - roasted seaweed is one yummy snack. Kale and arame (a japanese seaweed) salad, regular seaweed salads from the supermarket, etc.

A long time ago they use to have rice cakes with seaweed in them. They were the best! I wish I could find them again ;_; Haven't seen those in YEARS!

[Gem Stone]

Hate sushi, love fish. Normally fried or baked. Never noticeda smell personally but I grew up fishing so yeah. As far as cravings? Yes, get them a lot but I fight back with salt. Fish isn't good if you have it too often. I will try the roasted seaweed though. Sounds interesting

[Lotus]

LOVE seafood. Mussels, crab, clams, shrimp, fish... BIG fan of seared yellowfin tuna. The only things I will not eat are shark, dolphin, and blue fin tuna. Oh, and I hate crawfish, but I'm not so sure you would classify them as seafood... oh, and lastly, I don't eat grouper. Worms. Ick.

[LordsofSalem]

All this talk of seaweed is making me want veggie sushi..
Except I always pick the avocado out.

[Undertow]

Haha yeah on the topic of eating too much fish, eating a lot of tuna is a surefire way to get mercury poisoning....the first sign of which is insanity....uhhhh well I'm screwed hahahh

[Gem Stone]

me two

[Taniwha]

Yum, fishes. Though as I have the opportunity, I prefer to catch my own. The "It's only a couple of days old!" thing you get in shops really doesn't work for me. Catch it, cook it. Om, nom nom! Blue cod over here, though for non NZers it's not cod - it's a kind of perch that's called blue cod. I had cod while I was in England and they are not the same thing at all! And there has been some really good work on sustainability recently (full on fishing ban in some areas so they could study populations and what they do when they aren't fished) so quotas have changed, not to less, but a different band for the size limit and they are now up in the ministry of fisheries "green zone" for eating. So yummy AND sustainable!

[Winged Mermaid]

Sustanable is most preferable!! I usually on eat seafood when I'm eating out, not only to help me limit how much I eat but to make sure when I do eat it every so often it's yummy, and a lot of places don't GAF if it's sastainable or not. If you ask them they look at you like you have two heads. I hope the sastainable trend will catch on!! The yummy without so much gilt and not decimating the ocean is always nice.

And TRUST ME and take a 99¢ challenge and get the seasoned roasted seaweed! I don't even like seaweed in my miso soup if the texture isn't just right, and I am ADDICTED to this stuff! Everyone I share it with is too :P

[Mermaasai]

I'm not gonna lie, I have to have sushi at least once a month.. a white fish roll with lots of eel sauce and spicy mayo..

I like shrimp as well, or crab legs as long as both are hot (none of this cold stuff.. mleh it takes away some of the flavor imo)

Where I grew up eating fish was considered really gross, Maasai just dont eat fish! (or pork)
But when I came state side and discovered the delicacy of perfectly crisped fish fillet or steamed to a juicy morsel shrimp or crab dipped in sauce..
I came to the dark side with a napkin tucked into my shirt and forks/chopsticks blazing...

[Nyx]

I used to eat a little bit of fish when I was little,
then I watched the little mermaid and made a goal to not eat fish again.
However, sometimes I do get a bit of a craving .... it's weird XD.

[Princess Kae-Leah]

@Nyx, I know I always found it odd how many people assume mers must eat fish, when Disney's TLM(especially the animated series, which shows them eating several times), probably the most iconic and popular depiction of mermaids, makes it abundantly clear that merfolk are vegetarians(or close to it at least, as plankton can be classed as an animal), who subsist on seaweed, kelp, plankton, and the like, and they actually fear and look down on humans for being fish-eaters. I find it interesting how so many mers find eating seafood to actually be something that makes them feel more authentically "mermaidy", where I'm just the opposite. I think it has to do with the fact that most real fish do in fact eat other fish, with strictly herbivorous fish being extremely rare, and, hey, let's face it, does anyone here, especially someone who loves to eat seafood, find the idea of eating nothing but seaweed and kelp the least bit appealing? ;)
In my FictionPress series, the mers are vegans but, the heroine, a half-mermaid/half-human, personally finds their seaweed-based diet to be quite bland and boring compared to human food. If I get around to doing an "in character" mermaid blog, I'm gonna say that there are two types of merfolk: omnivorous mers and herbivorous mers, as a nod to my fish-eating mer-brethren. Omni mers would require more protein and other nutrients that are found more readily in animal than plant sources, and can't talk to sea animals, so they don't see them as equals, where herbivorous mers can survive on a plant-based diet and have the ability to talk to fish and other sea creatures, so they think of them as more or less equals and eating fish to be something close to cannibalism. Which would you guys be, an omni or herbivorous mer? I'm a herbivore mermaid!

[MorningSun]

My friends call me "Alleating beast" and it's true, haha! Still, it seems that I'm the only one in my company who love seafood. Also I'm the one who likes cooking alot, experimenting with new recipes and testing it all on friends.
But I figured out kind of hack that works (not perfectly, but still...) -- sandviches, burgers, panini, pizza, pies... Anything fried, roasted or warmed in bready wrap and a big amount of souses and toppings. Fishy part have to be fried separatly befor adding to whole dish. Though, it's not applyable to some kind of marine food.
Recently I got Ooni Coda (https://pizzaovenradar.com/p/ooni-koda-review-the-best-portable-pizza-oven/) for the Fall Picnick Sesone beginning and then I had an argument about pizza with fish and other stuff with guy who tells me that fish pizza is't eadible and can't be called a "food". Now I'm eating pizza every second day and can say two things:
1. Little oven is better then big one when it comes to everyday use -- faster, easier, compact, mobile.
2. You cant eat pizza everyday. Also every second day, too. You just going to get sick of it eventually.
But I'm too stubborn. I won't give it up. :jelly:

[Calisai]

Hello 2012 people! MorningSun and I are from 2019. I love sushi and crave it all the time! With eel sauce! Unfortunately, I don't get to eat it often. I also love mussels and flounder and crab legs. I've tried roasted seaweed before, and it's a yummy snack (it's been a while since I last bought some). I like caviar, too. Unfortunately, I'm allergic to trout and salmon, which are pink fish. I have to be careful what sushi I buy because of the salmon. Besides the pink fish, I'm also allergic to Pistachio nuts, and that's it when it comes to food. I can eat white fish and shellfish. Shrimp and tilapia are good but not as delicious as crab, and I only like lobster so-so. My mermaid self is an omnivore. I can eat vegetables and fruit and roam the land with legs to get a burger, but I also have a predatory side — chowing down on fish.

I'm interested in trying sardines and sea urchins, which I've never had before. I'm an adventurous eater.

I don't ever want to try shark fin soup, however. Japan and China's practice of catching sharks and slicing off their dorsal fins just to toss the sharks back into the sea saddens me.

[the_fever]

Hi there! I love fish and sushi, I guess I'd be able to eat sushi alone for the rest of my life. As for the drinks, it's coffee definitely. Alcohol: beer and vodka. It's important to choose the right one so you won't ruin your impression. I've heard Khor is top selling vodka usa (https://khor.com/).

[kentville]

oh yes, I get that cravings from time to time.

[jaybay]

Hello 2012 people! MorningSun and I are from 2019. I love sushi and crave it all the time! With eel sauce! Unfortunately, I don't get to eat it often. I also love mussels and flounder and crab legs. I've tried roasted seaweed before, and it's a yummy snack (it's been a while since I last bought some). I like caviar, too. Unfortunately, I'm allergic to trout and salmon, which are pink fish. I have to be careful what sushi I buy because of the salmon. Besides the pink fish, I'm also allergic to Pistachio nuts, and that's it when it comes to food. I can eat white fish and shellfish. Shrimp and tilapia are good but not as delicious as crab, and I only like lobster so-so. My mermaid self is an omnivore. I can eat vegetables and fruit and roam the land with legs to get a burger, but I also have a predatory side — chowing down on fish.

I'm interested in trying sardines and sea urchins, which I've never had before. I'm an adventurous eater.

I don't ever want to try shark fin soup, however. Japan and China's practice of catching sharks and slicing off their dorsal fins just to toss the sharks back into the sea saddens me.Poor sharkies. I wish they would abandon this practice. According to Gordon Ramsey it's not even good

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[Merman Dan]

I'm interested in trying sardines and sea urchins, which I've never had before. I'm an adventurous eater.

Urchin... Uni.. is very salty and "fishy". And as a head's up, it isn't actually the roe (eggs) you're eating. :D

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Urchin... Uni.. is very salty and "fishy". And as a head's up, it isn't actually the roe (eggs) you're eating. :D

Uni is sea urchin roe, not poop.

[Merman Dan]

Uni is sea urchin roe, not poop.

Uni is actually urchin gonads.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Uni is actually urchin gonads.

I googled it...

EEWWW!

So glad I only ate it once to try it. Didn't like weird flavour.

[the.tattooed.mermaid78]

I love fish, just done eat it much cos my hubby hates the smell lol

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[gay-mermaid]

I googled it...

EEWWW!

So glad I only ate it once to try it. Didn't like weird flavour.I LOVE uni!!! One of my favorites in regards to raw seafood!!

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