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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Oh, there you are, you odious little prawn...
Those little fish and the lobster as well are automatic survival mechanisms, like politicians. They
Just. Plain. [Fu*king.] Grilled. Swordfish.
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband,"
"For a boiled mollusk, you wear black quite well, my wife,
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
Crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
Under the sea, the merman feast on starfish soup and all the serving men are crabs.
I look like a lobster, don't I?
Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.
Everything is octopusied.
Survival is not enough. Sardine
Oysters followed
The hour was growing nigh for crustacean vengeance.
Oh, bring me some lobster mayonnaise.
I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
I have this cousin down in Georgia that skinny-dipped in the Chattahoochee and two hours later gave birth to crawfish." Leakey turned to walk away. "Crawfish, Chief. I'm just saying.
I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood.
Hickory dickory dock my daddy's nuts from shellshock.
Shrimp and green peppers are shriveling in my refrigerator
Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of a dwarfish and ignoble worm!
This is a trial about watermelons! Watermelons are invertebrate creatures!' cried Quall.
Life is too short to suffer anybody's meanness, which is what you can learn eating shrimp with store-bought coleslaw, if you look it straight in the face.
Percy yelled. "What's going- Gah! Shrimpzilla!
There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.
Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman.
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.
What the hell is a SpongeBob?
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.
The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. How small, thought Winston, how small it always was!
CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
I personally have stopped eating seafood.
It's all the same to the clam.
You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas eggs?
Stupid little fish
A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth.
Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish.
I want my lobster in bite-sized pieces! How dare you make me chew more than thrice?
Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
Ye gods and little fishes.
We've got a name for sushi in Georgia ... bait
fishhook. It's squiggly like a worm. Something's
I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
You are killing me, fish...
I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed,
Snails mate faster than Farnsworths."
Georgie gave her a chastening look. "Eliza."
"Well, it's true. I've watched."
"You've spied on Sir Roland?"
"No, I've spied on snails.
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...
What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.
Those less fortunate eat dried fish while the truly destitute fight with the spiny shells of crabs or lobsters. Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare.
You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.
There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.
An Englishman was reflecting on the different words that people use for fish. 'Isn't it strange,' he said, 'that the French say le poisson, the Spanish say el pescado, and the English call it fish - which is what it is.'
Get up seaweed brain
Is this chicken or is this fish?
The Eater of Socks,' moaned the Senior Wrangler, with his eyes shut. 'How many tentacles would you expect it to have?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. 'I mean, roughly speaking?
Gluppit the prawling strangles, there!
Sustainable scallops with a mirepoix of carrots, celeriac, shallots, and bell peppers and a sesame oil dressing. The recommended accompanying beverage is pinot gris.
Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a complete fisherman. For which we should all be eternally grateful.
Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.
We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.
Sandworms ... you know I hate 'em!
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.
Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved.
The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.
Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.
The world is your oyster ...
... too bad you're allergic to shellfish.
Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat.
Just because the restaurant had Dynamite Shrimp on the menu, was that any reason for the place to blow up? (re April 15 release, Killer Kitchens
Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
Did you know in the sea you can find a fish called, SWEETLIPS?
Ted and Raymond's Sea Adventure
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
Sometimes the peanut; sometimes the shell.
When life gives you lemons ... add melted butter , toasted paprik and dip some lobster in it!
The fish are naked.
The fish are always awake.
They are the color of old spoons
and caramels.
Astonishingly slimy and dangerous
Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.
She noticed a monger's window where, on a bed of ice, a wonderful scene was worked in fish. A skiff made of flounder fillets rode waves of shrimp and blue-black mussels. A whole salmon was a lighthouse, shot out rays of glittering mackerel. All framed by a border of crab claws. She
You can have my jellyfish
I am not sellyfish
The fish had kittens?
Nothing seems true today except the death of the goldfish who used to make love at ninety kilometers an hour in the pool. The maid has given him a Christian burial. To the worms! To the worms!
right now I feel like I just ate a cold snail raw.
All is fish that comth to net.
They're having a clam-bake. They're baking my clams.
They're baking the clams pried from my steaming pond.
Hard to call it a party without sardines.
When an octopus farts, it can't hide it.
Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about the world being your oyster? Does that mean it's really hard to open, and when you do, you have something slimy and gross on the inside?
A turtle without a shell is a very strange thing. Even with shells, turtles are very strange things, with their miniature elephant's feet, parrot's beak and ludicrous tail.
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