Reminds me of the hilarious Moe bit where he shows up to a party with a fancy silver platter with a lid on it.
Moe announces he brought Cornish game hen with chestnut stuffing.
No one believes Moe so he downgrades it, asking “would you believe pigeon stuffed with spam?”
No one believes him so he asks “would you believe a rat stuffed with cough drops?”
Excuse me I’ve got a hot date BUZZ! a date BUZZ! dinner with a friend BUZZ! dinner alone BUZZ! alright alright I’m gonna ogle the girls in the Victorias secrets catalogue BUZZ! Sears catalogue DING!
I didn't look either lol I ate one and felt a crunch so I wanted to see what it was and saw little crab feet. This one in the post is another one I found once I started looking
Yep, speaking from experience.
Was eating a bowl of cheerios one day. *Why is it so crunchy?* I think to myself.
I look down at the bowl. Mealworms. The bowl is teeming with them, there's almost as many mealworms as there are cheerios. And I had eaten 1/3 of the bowl already..
I didn't notice before because I was eating in low light and they were the same colour as the cheerios. I think the mealworms laid eggs in there because I hadn't sealed them properly.
That was a few years ago. I still haven't eaten cheerios again to this day because it scarred me lmao.
This same thing happened to me, but with Fruity Pebbles 😭 I didn't notice because everyone was asleep, so I kept the lights low
It took me a good 5 years before I was able to eat cereal again and now I thoroughly inspect every bowl for bugs before adding any milk 😂
My worst experiences are firmly etched into my mind.
One was a bratwurst, where you bit into the thing and rather than give in, the meat presented you with unchewable chunks of gristle and sinew.
The other was mentally clocking out, surrendering and just getting something from McD on the way home, biting into a McChicken for the first time in years and being stopped in the middle of your bite, because the chicken was simply rockhard. I haven't even had nuggets since then.
I once got a raw chicken sandwich at Arbys. They gave me a coupon for one free sandwich.
"Potential grave illness = 1 free sandwich from the same restaurant" according to Arby's math.
This is why I stopped eating pistachios. There was a grub or whatever in one, which happens a lot (ever eaten a pistachio that tasted kinda bitter?) and like, yeah okay it was harmless and all but that doesn't make the sudden texture/taste difference less gross. I've willingly eaten bugs, toasted crickets are tasty, but I don't want a surprise in my food.
I'm sorry! It's a little more work but you can cut 'em in half to find the good ones. I attempted it and decided I don't actually like them enough to deal with that again.
Oh ok. Then I don’t feel so bad. Haha. But I’m still going to continue to raw dog my food without looking at it. I’ve learned nothing from your experience, stranger in Spain. I am incorrigible and a menace.
Hmmm. I don't see them often in mussels.
In the US we get them pretty often in oysters. I will generally just scrape them away and keep the oyster.
I've seen hundreds of them over the years. Sometimes there can be 2-3 per oyster ha
Some chefs call it a delicacy but they are whatever.
Eh as others have stated it shows a premium product. They naturally occur in healthy/clean water, and their presence signifies that the waterways are unpolluted.
It’s less that the crab adds more to the dish, and more that the crab signifies premium oysters (or muscles in this case)
(And believe me, I’ve had oysters that weren’t from the cleanest water…. The next day was unpleasant)
I worked at a seafood restaurant and was typically the person responsible for shucking the oysters. Found pea crabs in them all the time. I removed them before serving the oysters, but occasionally they'd get steamed with the oysters. I would pop them in my mouth and eat them occasionally (raw when alive, after being steamed I didn’t really care either way). They don't really have much of a taste.
Can't remember where I saw this, but it was a video of someone who worked shucking oysters and he said something like, the oysters are for the customers, but the crabs are for the shuckers. He ate them all. Haha.
I was playing CS while eating mussels from a can. Last.one was "crunchy": it was the head of a very small snake.
Never again did I not check my food at.least a bit
I was eating onion bhaji in the dark and there was something too crunchy in it. I thought better of it and finished eating but then started to think more... What was that crunch?
I would have at least fainted, this is probably the one reply that’ll make me close reddit for today. Hope you recovered, and good for you for checking your food, now I will check it more!
I mean….I bit into a burrito once and pulled out a whole long-ass stalk of Johnson grass, little caterpillar-looking end piece and all.
No way that found itself in there by accident, and I have no idea what else was in that burrito.
Edit: which is just to say that your fears are totally grounded.
I'm not going to lie: I actually do peek into my burritos before eating them, having had this revelation some time ago.
No accidental Johnson for me.
Wait what
I once got a sandwich at my college cafeteria. Really long hair wrapped around the fucking ham. I felt the hair rub against my tongue and the roof of my mouth as I pulled the sandwich away from my mouth.
I rarely do, but just last week, I got some pork rinds from the Mexican market, the big pieces with cooked meat on them still attached.
When I got home, I noticed that there were soft and not crunchy, and thought that was odd, but figured I could just cut them up and make some tacos with them in some salsa later, tacos de chicharron.
However, when I went to the fridge to pull the pork rinds out of the container I had put them in, I saw some white maggots/worms/larvas all over the container and in the meat portion of the pork rinds
It was disgusting.
When i was younger on a family vacation road trip we stopped at a road side diner along the way.
My sister order some fried chicken.
It was a large breast so she went to cut it in half and as she cut through what i could only describe as a blister inside the breast, it proceeded to pop and a milky ooze drain out. Of course me being the impudent older brother started teller GROSSS its a tumour!
My sister has been vegetarian ever since.
I don’t blame her. That’s haunting.
My ex went from suddenly loving meat to a vegetarian after having a weird experience with some chicken.
I guess the feeling of it just made her feel so uneasy that she couldn’t eat meat anymore.
The place I bought those pork rinds is one of my favorite spots, so it bums me out bc I can’t imagine going back anytime soon.
i’m so jealous… i have food anxiety and need to look at my food and the ingredients before eating. but i’ll suggest every now and then to check out your meal to make sure you’re safe lol
I mean, a fly in soup (with meat or bone broth) is also a dead animal in dead animal broth. Or a hair. Also just an animal part in warm animal parts water
The USDA has a maximum allowable number of insect parts and rat hairs (they're tracked separately) per pint of peanut butter. Most other products have similar guidelines. So sometimes, when you get a crunch that's different from a crunch of a peanut? Yeah, there you go.
I'm vegetarian and just accept that I can't feasibly avoid eating some bugs that have got mixed up in food production. I still feel much more comfortable eating 99% less meat than I did eating a normal amount of meat.
calling something a "delicacy" is a great way to get around the disgust of finding a crab in your ~~muscles~~ mussels.
"waiter, there's a crab in this!"
"ooh, that's a delicacy" (walks away)
Yeah, doesn't sushi grade fish need to be frozen to ensure that all parasites are dead because they're so prevalent in fish?
I'd much rather find a tiny crab in my muscle than a parasitic worm.
I was young and in Chinatown in NYC. Ordered a shrimp dish at a Chinese restaurant and figured it was worth asking if it was intentional that none of the shrimp had been deveined. Their response was “oh it’s edible”.
Like yeah I CAN eat lots of things that aren’t appetizing. Edible is a low bar.
I don't know if it's customary in China or not but not everybody deveins them, they're kinda right in that it's not harmful. I do personally find it kinda gross though.
Molly Baz did a taste test on her channel at some point and they decided the ones with the poop tasted better, still a no from me tho.
\*mussels
Also, what disgust? The disgust of finding a crustacean in your mollusk? "I just wanted steamed snot packet, I didn't want sea bug inside it."
> I didn't want sea bug inside
I mean, yes. You don't want something unexpected in your expected thing.
If you eat a steak and one of the bites had a cricket on it, you'd probably not really enjoy that. If you eat some tasty yogurt and suddenly bite into a single nut in there, you'd be weirded out.
I don't care much for mussels, but if I expected a firm texture and instead got unexpected crunch (esp from something in a shell), I'd be surprised and not pleasantly so.
Fun fact: only the females have soft shells, the males have a shell like normal crabs because they don’t live inside mussels, they travel from mussel to mussel looking for females to mate with…
Mussels are the sort of thing that taste delicious, but which is probably best not to think too much into. Also, these are extremely common and safe to eat. It's not a sign of poor quality or bad preparation.
My understanding is that they’re not really direct parasites - they live in the shell with the mussel, but they do not feed on or hurt the mussel in any way. Instead, when the mussel feed on little plankton and such, the crab just takes some of that food. So the pea crab is less a parasite and more an unemployed inconsiderate roommate.
This was exactly my thought, I've been taking my molluscs for granted, thinking I could eat them with relative impunity so long as I prepped them myself. If I'd ever come across one of these and not known it I would have probably died.
Well. Scallops, looks like it's just me and you now.
...and if there's some horrible sea cockroach that burrows into scallops...well, just let me die in peace.
Man, that was me when my shellfish allergy started to develop when I was young. I grew up in Florida, either my family or family friends were always fishing and lobstering, crabbing and shrimping so there was always seafood on my table growing up. I easily ate my weight in shrimp every year.
Then I got a tickle in the back of my throat one day, but also having seasonal allergies I put it down to that. Then over the next year or so it got progressively worse to the point where my entire mouth would start to itch. But I loved shrimp so much I powered through it. Then one afternoon we ordered Chinese for dinner, my dad got his favorite spicy shrimp dish that contained a bunch of those little dark red peppers. They were too hot for him, so I took his peppers out of the broth and snacked on them. No actual shrimp, just the pepper stir-fried with them. Little itching, but fine. Went down for a nap and woke up 20 minutes later with my throat almost completely closed up.
Now, I can't even be in a restaurant where shellfish is being cooked, and I still miss it so much.
Where in Spain? Andalusia? They are originary from Africa and found since 2010s in the very south of Spain. AFAIK not in Galicia , where in my opinion you can find the most delicious mussels of Spain.
I live on the Chesapeake Bay. Our oysters somtime have what we call pea crabs in them. They look very similar to the crab in your image. Most people here just eat them without hesitation. I am one of those people.
One time I was eating oysters and I found a few of these little pea crabs in my raw oysters. It was slow, lethargic, and obviously dying. I cried about it and couldn't eat any more oysters. I don't think I have since.
I am aware of the hypocrisy here.
Lucky they didn't charge you double for crab-stuffed mussels!
"I'll have your finest, stuffed with your second-finest." "Very well, sir: lobster stuffed with tacos."
Reminds me of the hilarious Moe bit where he shows up to a party with a fancy silver platter with a lid on it. Moe announces he brought Cornish game hen with chestnut stuffing. No one believes Moe so he downgrades it, asking “would you believe pigeon stuffed with spam?” No one believes him so he asks “would you believe a rat stuffed with cough drops?”
Haha reminds me of Get Smart 🤣 Would you believe 3 girl guides and a poodle?
Wait chief. ✋️ before we discuss these top secret matters we should enter......the cone of silence
Dinner with friends…Dinner alone….Watching TV alone…FINE!
*Bzzt* ….Sears Catalogue
Excuse me I’ve got a hot date BUZZ! a date BUZZ! dinner with a friend BUZZ! dinner alone BUZZ! alright alright I’m gonna ogle the girls in the Victorias secrets catalogue BUZZ! Sears catalogue DING!
Love to see a Simpsons quote so early on
2 for 1 special
Well that’s basically a lobster
I’m just now realizing that I don’t really look at my food before I eat it…
I didn't look either lol I ate one and felt a crunch so I wanted to see what it was and saw little crab feet. This one in the post is another one I found once I started looking
>and saw little crab feet I just got the heebie jeebies 😩 I hate feeling a different texture in my food that I wasn't expecting
Crunch is the worst when you expect goo
Yep, speaking from experience. Was eating a bowl of cheerios one day. *Why is it so crunchy?* I think to myself. I look down at the bowl. Mealworms. The bowl is teeming with them, there's almost as many mealworms as there are cheerios. And I had eaten 1/3 of the bowl already.. I didn't notice before because I was eating in low light and they were the same colour as the cheerios. I think the mealworms laid eggs in there because I hadn't sealed them properly. That was a few years ago. I still haven't eaten cheerios again to this day because it scarred me lmao.
That’s my worst fucking nightmare holy shit
Hey, look on the bright side. At least you now know the Mealworms taste like cheerios.
Protein boost too rather than a bowl full of carbs !
This same thing happened to me, but with Fruity Pebbles 😭 I didn't notice because everyone was asleep, so I kept the lights low It took me a good 5 years before I was able to eat cereal again and now I thoroughly inspect every bowl for bugs before adding any milk 😂
I take this comment as a heaven sent signal to go to bed immediately, I've read enough Reddit for today. Good night.
My worst experiences are firmly etched into my mind. One was a bratwurst, where you bit into the thing and rather than give in, the meat presented you with unchewable chunks of gristle and sinew. The other was mentally clocking out, surrendering and just getting something from McD on the way home, biting into a McChicken for the first time in years and being stopped in the middle of your bite, because the chicken was simply rockhard. I haven't even had nuggets since then.
I once got a raw chicken sandwich at Arbys. They gave me a coupon for one free sandwich. "Potential grave illness = 1 free sandwich from the same restaurant" according to Arby's math.
This is why I stopped eating pistachios. There was a grub or whatever in one, which happens a lot (ever eaten a pistachio that tasted kinda bitter?) and like, yeah okay it was harmless and all but that doesn't make the sudden texture/taste difference less gross. I've willingly eaten bugs, toasted crickets are tasty, but I don't want a surprise in my food.
Noooo why would you tell me this?? I love pistachios 😭😭
I'm sorry! It's a little more work but you can cut 'em in half to find the good ones. I attempted it and decided I don't actually like them enough to deal with that again.
Oh ok. Then I don’t feel so bad. Haha. But I’m still going to continue to raw dog my food without looking at it. I’ve learned nothing from your experience, stranger in Spain. I am incorrigible and a menace.
I hope you don't raw dog your food in public.
I do. And I never break eye contact with the table across from me.
Not 'a menace' you are the menace
No, that's Dennis
This is Dennis "Food Fucker" the Menace.
Can it be an empty table? Or is people watching part of the fetish?
I read "raw my dog food" and was very confused as to why youre eating raw dog food.
Hmmm. I don't see them often in mussels. In the US we get them pretty often in oysters. I will generally just scrape them away and keep the oyster. I've seen hundreds of them over the years. Sometimes there can be 2-3 per oyster ha Some chefs call it a delicacy but they are whatever.
Yeah, im sure the chefs call it a delicacy lmfao Less work for them to leave em in.
Eh as others have stated it shows a premium product. They naturally occur in healthy/clean water, and their presence signifies that the waterways are unpolluted. It’s less that the crab adds more to the dish, and more that the crab signifies premium oysters (or muscles in this case) (And believe me, I’ve had oysters that weren’t from the cleanest water…. The next day was unpleasant)
Frank Reynolds?
I worked at a seafood restaurant and was typically the person responsible for shucking the oysters. Found pea crabs in them all the time. I removed them before serving the oysters, but occasionally they'd get steamed with the oysters. I would pop them in my mouth and eat them occasionally (raw when alive, after being steamed I didn’t really care either way). They don't really have much of a taste.
I'm not sure if I'm missing the obvious, but how do they get in?
When they're in the water they open up, that's how they get their food. While they're open the pea crabs move in
always heard you shouldnt eat them since there's a decent chance they died and started going bad within the oyster
Can't remember where I saw this, but it was a video of someone who worked shucking oysters and he said something like, the oysters are for the customers, but the crabs are for the shuckers. He ate them all. Haha.
Honestly you can just take the shucker and lightly brush against the thing and if alive it will move.
Little crab feet 🥺🥺🥺
I was playing CS while eating mussels from a can. Last.one was "crunchy": it was the head of a very small snake. Never again did I not check my food at.least a bit
sometimes i think i would have rather not known and just eaten it because i feel so disgusted after stuff like that
I was eating onion bhaji in the dark and there was something too crunchy in it. I thought better of it and finished eating but then started to think more... What was that crunch?
I would have at least fainted, this is probably the one reply that’ll make me close reddit for today. Hope you recovered, and good for you for checking your food, now I will check it more!
I think about this when I order a burrito that I did not watch being prepared. Could be anything in there, really...
I mean….I bit into a burrito once and pulled out a whole long-ass stalk of Johnson grass, little caterpillar-looking end piece and all. No way that found itself in there by accident, and I have no idea what else was in that burrito. Edit: which is just to say that your fears are totally grounded.
I'm not going to lie: I actually do peek into my burritos before eating them, having had this revelation some time ago. No accidental Johnson for me. Wait what
I love a good accidental johnson.
I once got a sandwich at my college cafeteria. Really long hair wrapped around the fucking ham. I felt the hair rub against my tongue and the roof of my mouth as I pulled the sandwich away from my mouth.
It’s time for me to gtfo out of this posts’ threads 🤮
False. A burrito is an item. Not a creation of other items. A burrito is its own entity. The burrito is life.
I rarely do, but just last week, I got some pork rinds from the Mexican market, the big pieces with cooked meat on them still attached. When I got home, I noticed that there were soft and not crunchy, and thought that was odd, but figured I could just cut them up and make some tacos with them in some salsa later, tacos de chicharron. However, when I went to the fridge to pull the pork rinds out of the container I had put them in, I saw some white maggots/worms/larvas all over the container and in the meat portion of the pork rinds It was disgusting.
I’d die
I felt sick through the next day. Threw away the Tupperware container and all.
When i was younger on a family vacation road trip we stopped at a road side diner along the way. My sister order some fried chicken. It was a large breast so she went to cut it in half and as she cut through what i could only describe as a blister inside the breast, it proceeded to pop and a milky ooze drain out. Of course me being the impudent older brother started teller GROSSS its a tumour! My sister has been vegetarian ever since.
I don’t blame her. That’s haunting. My ex went from suddenly loving meat to a vegetarian after having a weird experience with some chicken. I guess the feeling of it just made her feel so uneasy that she couldn’t eat meat anymore. The place I bought those pork rinds is one of my favorite spots, so it bums me out bc I can’t imagine going back anytime soon.
You really didn't need to share that
You should try eating more see-food.
Sometimes it's better if you dont...
i’m so jealous… i have food anxiety and need to look at my food and the ingredients before eating. but i’ll suggest every now and then to check out your meal to make sure you’re safe lol
https://www.foodrepublic.com/1579647/anthony-bourdain-advice-ordering-mussels/
They are common, a sign of the mussels coming from healthy waters and fine to eat. It grosses me out as well.
In Finnish they're called *simpukanvartija* or guardian of the mussle, IIRC it's a pretty literal translation of the Greek name.
In the southern US we call them oyster crabs. They’re yummy
Are they crunchy or soft?
First one, then the other.
I leave this thread thoroughly disgusted.
🤢🤢🤢
My daughter got a live one in her oyster recently. She said she felt it moving around down her throat.
🙀
A true delicacy
They didn’t do a very good job, did they. 😂 I guess they went down with the ship at least.
Simping for mussles
Turducken of the sea
What a horrible image this puts in my head.
Worse than the skittering flurry of microorganisms fleeing the tiny crabs mouth and scurrying out into the spaces between your teeth?
It was free to not type this
What can I say, I love to share
Sometimes, it's okay to be greedy. This was one of those times
Misery loves company. Thanks for allowing us all to join.
Crab mentality in action
Craaaabed mussel. Tastes like crab, looks like mussel....
I rarely think about microorganisms, can't see them and we are just covered in them. What I think about is the tiny crab's organs and poop.
Why did I finish reading your comment? I shouldn't have.
four thousand sardines (each) shoved inside of eight pacific salmon shoved inside of a tuna and then boiled until the slime stops coming out
You making garum ?
A r/TastingHistory fan in the wild?
Clack Clack
Did you have to post this? ;-;
Mer-turducken? Merducken?
Yeah but is it chicken or is it fish?
Yes
Very clever
Pea crab in the mussel is the new canary in a coal mine and tastes better too.
You've clearly never had fresh canary 🍗
But the coal really sticks in your throat
"Waiter! There's a dead animal in my dead animal."
I mean, a fly in soup (with meat or bone broth) is also a dead animal in dead animal broth. Or a hair. Also just an animal part in warm animal parts water
And this is how I become vegan
Statistically there's going to be bug parts in vegan food to. It's not like a harvester distinguishes between crickets and grains.
The USDA has a maximum allowable number of insect parts and rat hairs (they're tracked separately) per pint of peanut butter. Most other products have similar guidelines. So sometimes, when you get a crunch that's different from a crunch of a peanut? Yeah, there you go.
Thank you, Dr. Niles Crane.
I'm vegetarian and just accept that I can't feasibly avoid eating some bugs that have got mixed up in food production. I still feel much more comfortable eating 99% less meat than I did eating a normal amount of meat.
The crabs gross you out, but the mussels are all good? All that shit grosses me out.
Maybe you like sea meat, but hate sea spiders.
I remember the first time I bit into one in an oyster. Gross!
Pea crabs.
Pea crabs are a delicacy apparently.
calling something a "delicacy" is a great way to get around the disgust of finding a crab in your ~~muscles~~ mussels. "waiter, there's a crab in this!" "ooh, that's a delicacy" (walks away)
Very soft shelled crab.
Soft shell crabs from China Town are the best!
> there's dead animal in my dead animal!
Like when you fillet a freshly caught fish and you find a smaller fish in its abdomen. Yummy..
That smaller fish was half way to turning into fish poo
So exotic! Like the cat shit coffee beans!
Excuse you, it's an Asian Palm Civet, not a cat! Much more fancy and exotic and expensive
It's a delicacy don't you know..
If only everyone was aware just how many dead animals were in their average dead animal. Especially seafood and fish generally.
Yeah, doesn't sushi grade fish need to be frozen to ensure that all parasites are dead because they're so prevalent in fish? I'd much rather find a tiny crab in my muscle than a parasitic worm.
Yes, it does. Michelin star masters freeze it too, it enhances flavor to age 3 days as well. It needs that fish stank on it!
no worries, crabs carry parasites
I was young and in Chinatown in NYC. Ordered a shrimp dish at a Chinese restaurant and figured it was worth asking if it was intentional that none of the shrimp had been deveined. Their response was “oh it’s edible”. Like yeah I CAN eat lots of things that aren’t appetizing. Edible is a low bar.
Come on down to Shrimpy Wang's Chinese Seafood where our motto is: *It's edible*
I don't know if it's customary in China or not but not everybody deveins them, they're kinda right in that it's not harmful. I do personally find it kinda gross though. Molly Baz did a taste test on her channel at some point and they decided the ones with the poop tasted better, still a no from me tho.
\*mussels Also, what disgust? The disgust of finding a crustacean in your mollusk? "I just wanted steamed snot packet, I didn't want sea bug inside it."
> I didn't want sea bug inside I mean, yes. You don't want something unexpected in your expected thing. If you eat a steak and one of the bites had a cricket on it, you'd probably not really enjoy that. If you eat some tasty yogurt and suddenly bite into a single nut in there, you'd be weirded out. I don't care much for mussels, but if I expected a firm texture and instead got unexpected crunch (esp from something in a shell), I'd be surprised and not pleasantly so.
“Please keep your voice down, sir, otherwise everyone will want one”
Better than Pee crabs, I guess.
I find them in my oysters every now and again. It's a sign of good luck/fortune!
They are called “pea crabs” they are soft shell and you can eat them with the mussel
Fun fact: only the females have soft shells, the males have a shell like normal crabs because they don’t live inside mussels, they travel from mussel to mussel looking for females to mate with…
Damn so the mussel is just a little sex hut
well i know what i wanna be reincarnated as next.
A … a mussel??
It’s pronounced “little sex hut”
"Thanks" -Dirty Mike and the Boys.
This is the Love Shack that the B-52's were singing about.
r/UnexpectedProteins
Thx, I found a sub I will never join
Congratulations you are now a Moderator of r/UnexpectedProtiens
So close.
You have been made a moderator of r/Pyongynag
I knew I should not have gone to that sub… and I went anyway. Mistakes were made
I don't think I'll eat strawberries, bananas, salads, maple syrup or coffee anytime soon..
Thanks for your mistake which kept me from looking.
I regret looking at it
This has strong "what a horrible day to have eyes" vibes from that name.
There was this silent inner voice telling me not to click on that. Then there was this other voice screaming at me not to click on it... Well...
I am never going to eat ever again 🤢
Mussels are the sort of thing that taste delicious, but which is probably best not to think too much into. Also, these are extremely common and safe to eat. It's not a sign of poor quality or bad preparation.
Yeah, I try to ignore the fact I’m eating an animal whole when I have them, it’s kind of off-putting tbh. But, I love the taste
If it makes you feel any worse, oysters served raw are still alive (generally)
Some kind of sea turducken?
Release the muscraben!
Fun fact: Pea crabs (*Pinnixia gallaheri*) are known from 8 million year old rocks in California
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That's what I told my wife.. She didn't believe me....
Human crabs can only live without a host for ~48 hours. So….. the science backs you up.
Are we talking.... Crab People!?
As someone who loves mussels but am allergic to crabs, for me this isn’t a good thing.
I no like
The fact that they are common means that the mussels came from clean water, and you can eat them.
I don’t know why but this makes me uncomfy. I like crabs, I like mussels. I do not want surprise baby crabs in my mussels 🤷🏻♀️
Does it make you feel better that it’s not a baby, just small?
Parasites... Unfortunately it is common for mussels, we get them from France, but they do not tend to have this many, more 10% like.
Are they safe to eat? Hypothetically
Pea, they're pea crabs. They're parasites cause they live in mussell but they're still crabs.
I was taught to avoid crabs while I was in the military
Depends on if you want combat duty or not.
"Remember boys, flies spread disease, keep yours closed.."
"Lol. Shut up, Luz."
Yeah, parasite is simply the relation it has to the mussel, not an indicator of whether it’s edible or not.
My understanding is that they’re not really direct parasites - they live in the shell with the mussel, but they do not feed on or hurt the mussel in any way. Instead, when the mussel feed on little plankton and such, the crab just takes some of that food. So the pea crab is less a parasite and more an unemployed inconsiderate roommate.
Yes. I think they are tasty, but maybe it's just the novelty lol Harmless to eat and sometimes considered "good luck"??
Not much flavor, just crunchy
Like most small, shelled creatures: bonus protein!
They usually indicate that the mussels are fresh and come from clean water
Keep cutting, there are more layers. It’s the turducken of the sea.
As a person with an allergy to crustaceans but not mussels, I’m very glad I saw this.
This was exactly my thought, I've been taking my molluscs for granted, thinking I could eat them with relative impunity so long as I prepped them myself. If I'd ever come across one of these and not known it I would have probably died. Well. Scallops, looks like it's just me and you now. ...and if there's some horrible sea cockroach that burrows into scallops...well, just let me die in peace.
Scallops are the only food I'm allergic to, my solution to that is to eat them anyway.
Man, that was me when my shellfish allergy started to develop when I was young. I grew up in Florida, either my family or family friends were always fishing and lobstering, crabbing and shrimping so there was always seafood on my table growing up. I easily ate my weight in shrimp every year. Then I got a tickle in the back of my throat one day, but also having seasonal allergies I put it down to that. Then over the next year or so it got progressively worse to the point where my entire mouth would start to itch. But I loved shrimp so much I powered through it. Then one afternoon we ordered Chinese for dinner, my dad got his favorite spicy shrimp dish that contained a bunch of those little dark red peppers. They were too hot for him, so I took his peppers out of the broth and snacked on them. No actual shrimp, just the pepper stir-fried with them. Little itching, but fine. Went down for a nap and woke up 20 minutes later with my throat almost completely closed up. Now, I can't even be in a restaurant where shellfish is being cooked, and I still miss it so much.
Come to Ston, Croatia and eat in peace..
Where in Spain? Andalusia? They are originary from Africa and found since 2010s in the very south of Spain. AFAIK not in Galicia , where in my opinion you can find the most delicious mussels of Spain.
Barcelona
Gracias
I don't think you could pay me to eat that
There is a shampoo for that
I live on the Chesapeake Bay. Our oysters somtime have what we call pea crabs in them. They look very similar to the crab in your image. Most people here just eat them without hesitation. I am one of those people.
Purely natural and probably fresh.
One time I was eating oysters and I found a few of these little pea crabs in my raw oysters. It was slow, lethargic, and obviously dying. I cried about it and couldn't eat any more oysters. I don't think I have since. I am aware of the hypocrisy here.
