Best inveterbrate (for eating)

prawns!

You know what are fucking tasty? Razor clams! Only had them a couple of times, but tempted to vote for clams on the back of that.

Argh, left out scallops!

scallops! "other"!

I'm sure I've eaten 100x more shrimp by weight than anything else on this list, but I just have one word: DUNGENESS.

geoduck! (never eaten it. just...looked.)

can we separate sushi from fried?

I'm thinking abalone, though geoduck is pretty great and so are razor clams.

this is the toughest poll so far!

how do you make abalone good? it's insanely expensive over here and yet I've never had a good iteration of it

scallops

how do you make abalone good?

I don't know, I've only had it twice, at restaurants, and it was amazing both times. Oh! And in some Korean "porridge of well-being".

scallops

oh man now i really want scallops! whyyy do i have to live with a vegetarian and two jews?

instant sitcom

"Other", aka scallops.

eh i'll quit whining, i can just be mean and make my own dinner some night instead of cooking for everyone as usual

maria you're in providence right?? you have a lot of options for great scallops iirc.

yeah i probably do...any recommendations? i was thinking just in terms of cooking but i could probably go out as well!

i actually don't have any recommendations in providence proper e_e
basically anywhere?? i should ask my folks. i know my dad likes a place called Quitos in Bristol.

but yeah just pan sear those little guys at home and yer in a good place.

We were talking scallops on ILCooking a couple of days ago starting here.

Um, 'This Boy?' 'She's A Woman?' 'You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)?' 'Poo Poo In The Prawn' by Ian Dury? 'Our Oyster' by Peter Hammill? Can I has cheezburger? I think I have been reading too many polls. Fail!

one of the popular dishes here is steamed scallops in the shell with tons of minced garlic sprinkled on top.

I think it was mcoleman or maybe gooblar who talked about marinating scallops in minced garlic, lemon juice, and olive oil then searing, which is my go-to scallop recipe.

Chopped scallops + mayo + masago = just about my favorite thing ever at a sushi bar. I ordered it at one place and it came out warm -- they had run it under the broiler briefly before sending it out. Ugh.

that sounds delicious! but I'm gonna have to go with prawns here; tiger prawns to me are a good middle point between shrimp and lobster in terms of texture. lobsters are all too often disappointing - you buy a giant whopper of a lobster, steam it, and then realize the tail is only 1/4 the weight; and after those few bites all you have to look forward to is a long night of sucking out tiny bits of leg meat and slightly bitter claw meat.

Wait, is this the invertebrate that is best at eating, or the one you like eating the most?

First vote for oysters! One of my first to-do items whenever I'm in New Orleans is a fried oyster po-boy. Also on my to-die-for list, Oysters Mosca, or any variation of the casserole containing oysters baked with bread crumbs, fresh parmesan cheese, herbs, garlic, olive oil.

Coquille St. Jacques (= scallops = other)

SCALLOPS where are u

i would be kicked out of The South if i didn't vote for crayfish

For me, really fresh mussels have a pungency that beats everything else, oysters not excluded.

i'd probably be lying if i voted mussels, but this thread + the "always sunny" thread is reminding me of this really aweome Belgian beer tavern called monk's in center city philadelphia that might have had the best mussels i've ever put in my mouth. cooked up with bacon, bleu cheese, leeks, fennel, garlic, etc and serve up with pomme frites w/ bourbon mayonaise. mmmmmmmmmmmm

scallops are like... pure sex

I feel really stupid for having left out scallops. Other counts as scallops from now on.

i like so much of this list but have to go for oysters

this is by far the hardest animals for eating list yet.

I wanted to go to Monk's when I was in Philadelphia a few years ago, but my flight home was leaving too soon that day.

Scallops all day.

tha lobstah
eat it
it's good!

what is the difference between prawns and shrimp? i thought they were just BrE and AmE words for the same delicious things.

There's an actual physiological difference in their gill structures, but for the purposes of eating, I don't think there is one.

I kept them apart on the basis of them having separate wiki entries, but reading further there's actually some confusion:

While in biological terms shrimps and prawns belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance. In commercial farming and fisheries, the terms shrimp and prawn are often used interchangeably. However, recent aquaculture literature increasingly uses the term "prawn" only for the freshwater forms of palaemonids and "shrimp" for the marine penaeids.

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This thing is the best part of a visit to Walgreen's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j1HM1xdxvs&feature=related

so, bay scallops or sea scallops then? i grew up on bay scallops, and was rather shocked to encounter sea scallops. but now, i rarely see bay scallops served.

Other: locos.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/05/world/illegal-chilean-shellfish-retains-its-appeal.html

sticking up for crawfish here

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/%7Ejmeaux/images/Louisiana/crawfish.jpg

voted squid for its uses in southern Mediterranean cuisine (though not so much for the USA-ubiquitous fried calamari)

all lobsta all the time

I've never had lobster. I even went to the coast of Maine on my honeymoon but at that point I was in my "shrimp are the roaches of the ocean" phase and what are lobster but just GIANT FUCKING BUGS and so I skipped out. I'm over that now but even so I would pass on Bar Harbor's lobster ice cream.

Arthropods ≠ bugs!

tho bugs = arthropods

crazy world

now I eat them all happily so it's cool either way

what is the difference between prawns and shrimp? i thought they were just BrE and AmE words for the same delicious things.

― caek, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:50 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

IME certain kinds of prawns - tiger prawns - are better than the normal 'white' shrimp because they have a firmer, more lobster-like texture after cooking. you can also tell because they get sort of a deeper red than white shrimp do after cooking.

had scallops for dinner cuz of this thread tbh.

sorry for challops but all of these are gross

more for me, then -- go on and have your venison smoothie or whatever

will do!

i actually have venison in the freezer but i will not tolerate its blenderization

I haven't had venison in, jeez, 20 years. Need to correct that.

A surf & turf with scallops and venison tenderloin medallions would be intersting.

jjusten i understand you live in the midwest and as such obtaining great fresh seafood may be difficult, but please keep the haterade off this thread of deliciousness.

ok fair and true.

<3

p.s. last time i ate venison it was delicious. my friend's brother brought a bunch back with him after a hunting trip upstate. that was over two years ago, i'd guess. i'd say it's about time for me to look into getting some of that.

i want mussels

I'm gonna get my on my shrimpbox and say that people who overcook shrimp are disgusting savages

i maybe allergic to shrimp.. i haven't had it in years. but the last two times i had it, i got incredibly sick.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Crabs. Not just the general category, either - the blue crab. As a native Marylander, I used to regard those fuckers as the tastiest little nasties ever created. Still do.

And I was amazed by the reaction to my New Jerzee college classmates reaction when I extolled on the virtues of the blue crab. Their minds were taken to the sort of crabs you are bummed to get.

Man, I love me some blue crabs. Even if an overwhelming percentage of them are imported from other places now. They still freaking rock.

I mean...crab cakes? Soft shell crab sandwich? Steamed? AARRGGH!!!! WOULD SMASH!

mmmm crabs.
i would smash those fucking crabs with a hammer iirc.

crab may take it for me....

three distinct flavor/textures: claws, legs, brains.

sea urchin is pretty great and prevalent in italian, greece, basque, spanish, peruvian, and japanese cuisine.

I do love crabs. But I ate two whole ones at a party where no-one else was interested, and experienced an intoxicating tingling and numbness in the fingers and toes that may have been a warning of some kind allergic shock reaction, so I'd better watch myself. Anyone had experience of peculiar local crustacea like the aussie bay bug?

In the spirit of not being able to choose AT ALL am gonna get me some seafood curry laksa and deep-fried soft-shell crab in the hope that it will 'help me decide'.

i don't really care for crabs. too much work and doesn't taste like much? i like fishy things. i think i voted clams or squid.

lobster, 4 the tails. Narrowly beating out scallops, which are mostly awesome except for the occasional granule of sand. A sandy scallop is the "bad pistachio" of invertebrate consumption.

Voted lobster, though I'm not sure I actually agree with my choice. I do love calamari. I once ordered a seafood platter in Spain but my stupid brane thought 'Crayfish' when I saw 'Cuttlefish' on the menu. Wasn't what I was expecting, and though it tasted nice, after a couple of bites I started gagging every time I tried to eat some because of the texture.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Poor oysters, so misunderstood.

more for us!

fuckinay i could eat about 2 dozen right now.