# I Finally Understand.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 30, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114 "2007-05-30T20:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/21 "2007-05-31T15:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Oh, you nit-picking bunch. I’ve never had red meat in my life. I figured that the burger example might help, but it hasn’t. Also, I’ve never had pork chops, but I do like bacon. [/QUOTE] Salmon can be quite red! Lovely smoked, as sushi, or seared on the outside & left red in the middle. And I know at least one vegetarian who was _extremely_ tempted by the very smell of bacon. Then, there’s the crunch. (I remember a casual neighborhood seafood restaurant from the 80’s. And still regret that I didn’t devour more of their oysters on the halfshell. A dozen for a dollar!) ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/22 "2007-05-31T15:41:25Z")
Another Canuck here: To me it’s always been “crab” and “tuna” - never “crabmeat,” and only “tuna fish” if telling that piano joke. > [@Auntbeast](#): > > Seriously, is it like that old phrase “It’s always in the last place you look.” that you never really think about, you just say? (of course it is in the last place you look, because then you stop looking.) I’ve always taken that phrase to be a corrupted version of “It’s always in the last place you’d think to look.” ---
**Author:** ![GuyNblueJeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GuyNblueJeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNblueJeans)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/23 "2007-05-31T15:43:34Z")
I love lobster more than anything but try to avoid it just because they get thrown into boiling water. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/24 "2007-05-31T15:47:51Z")
[QUOTE=Nature’s Call] Another Canuck here: To me it’s always been “crab” and “tuna” - never “crabmeat,” [/QUOTE] There’s a distinction. There are many parts of a crab besides the meat. 1 pound of blue might yield .000001 oz of meat, and you have to work at it. It’s quite possibly the most intimidating food on the face of the planet, and that includes shark and wooly mammoth. It’s “crab” if I have to do all the work, and “crabmeat” if someone has done it for me. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/25 "2007-05-31T15:51:57Z")
[QUOTE=GuyNblueJeans] I love lobster more than anything but try to avoid it just because they get thrown into boiling water. [/QUOTE] You want something a little less cruel and oogy? Split them live bugs right through the brain, and down through the tail. Scoop out the guts and fill with crab **meat** stuffing (shrimpfish, scallopmeat, and cowburger are optional), then broil. You’ll haves you some yum. ---
**Author:** ![GuyNblueJeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GuyNblueJeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuyNblueJeans)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/26 "2007-05-31T15:59:54Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] You want something a little less cruel and oogy? Split them live bugs right through the brain, and down through the tail. Scoop out the guts and fill with crab **meat** stuffing (shrimpfish, scallopmeat, and cowburger are optional), then broil. You’ll haves you some yum. [/QUOTE] Yes. There’s nothing wrong with giving them a quick death that way, and stuffing them that way does sound tastey. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/27 "2007-05-31T16:11:06Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] You remind me of Homer in the all-you-can-eat seafood place. 'Tis no man. 'Tis a remorseless eating machine. [/QUOTE] Come see Bottomless Pete, Nature’s cruelest trick! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/28 "2007-05-31T16:21:57Z")
[QUOTE=TokyoPlayer] WTF? Everything I’ve read says that pigs are more intelligent than cows. On what possible ground are you saying that beef is meat but pork is not? 😕 [/QUOTE] You didn’t read my article in the Lancet titled “God Damn You, Crab, You Beat Me In Chess Again”, did you? ---
**Author:** ![Like\_Fry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@Like\_Fry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Like_Fry)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/29 "2007-05-31T16:23:45Z")
I have been vegetarian for years now. I drool when I smell burgers, or bacon, or pork, or ham and cheese… I do eat cheese/eggs/dairy. To be perfectly honest, Im not really sure why I dont eat meat (thought I cant stand seafood and chicken has always worried me). Also, I really do like vegetarian foods. I have considered eating meat again but Im not sure of what might happen, Im especially worried about blowing up like a balloon and getting really fat. Fry ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/30 "2007-05-31T16:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I finally understand too. Never in my life have I grokked why anyone would want to live in Detroit. Until now. Please tell me that this place serves either Guinness or a decent weissbier. Because crab without that is like hot monkey sex without orgasm. Crab – it’s the new lobster. [/QUOTE] Hey! Detroit’s really not that bad. Oh, sure, the economy sucks now and I think I’d very much like to get out in the name of self preservation, but be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. At least it’s not New Jersey. ow! stop hitting me! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/31 "2007-05-31T16:29:03Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] You remind me of Homer in the all-you-can-eat seafood place. 'Tis no man. 'Tis a remorseless eating machine. [/QUOTE] I fear that each time I go into that bar. After the 5th plate, the manager brought one over. That wasn’t a “lending the waitress a hand on a VERY lax evening”, no, it was a “message”. After that, I contemplated looking for Lionel Hutz’s number in my phone. By the way, the final kill total was 5 and a half plates, so a little over 10 pounds. Bested my personal record! I asked the waitress what the most she saw eaten was. She said it was 4 plates. I responded that I had eaten 5. She replied “Wow! That’s a lot!” in her best “Wow, your retarded son drew that? No, I’m not saying he’s got some actual talent, it really _does_ look good!” voice. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/32 "2007-05-31T16:29:26Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Hey! Detroit’s really not that bad. Oh, sure, the economy sucks now and I think I’d very much like to get out in the name of self preservation, but be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. At least it’s not New Jersey. ow! stop hitting me! [/QUOTE] This is the thanks I get for defending you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/33 "2007-05-31T16:30:00Z")
Oh, and “tuna fish” is the stuff that comes in cans. “Tuna” is the stuff you get fresh. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/34 "2007-05-31T16:31:34Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] This is the thanks I get for defending you? 😃 [/QUOTE] _looks at the ground and kicks an errant pebble_ Thanks for defending me, you soulless, Yankee-loving Jerseyite. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/35 "2007-05-31T16:55:26Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] _looks at the ground and kicks an errant pebble_ Thanks for defending me, you soulless, Yankee-loving Jerseyite. [/QUOTE] _I’m_ Yankee _and_ I used to live in Michigan, not far from where you live now. What’ve you got to say to me? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sofaspud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sofaspud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofaspud)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/36 "2007-05-31T17:15:54Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I fear that each time I go into that bar. After the 5th plate, the manager brought one over. That wasn’t a “lending the waitress a hand on a VERY lax evening”, no, it was a “message”. [/QUOTE] Red Lobster (do those exist back east?) did a similar thing to me once, during their most recent all-you-can-scarf crab leg extravaganza. After the first few plates o’ crabby goodness, I suddenly started getting the smallest, greyest, nastiest-looking crab legs you’ve ever seen, and I count the ones that swim in tepid water all day at the el-cheapo Chinese buffet when I say that. Since other tables were getting bright red huge crab legs, I can only assume it was a deliberate attempt to get the eating machine out the door. So I ate four more plates, just to spite 'em. (And besides, while it LOOKED like crap, it still tasted good!) ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/37 "2007-05-31T17:39:00Z")
[QUOTE=Sofaspud] Red Lobster (do those exist back east?) [/QUOTE] Oh yes. We’ve got three of them in my area. I only go them when they’re having the Lobsterfest special. And no one else in my family likes to go there. **LOUNE** Five+ plates? Impressive. A friend of mine actually got thrown out of an AYCE Chinese buffet for draining the shrimp bowl. Twice. Old lady running the place: “You go home now. You eat too much.” ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/38 "2007-05-31T17:55:37Z")
Just chiming in to second the American distinctions already made by others: “Tuna” is a piece of tuna on a plate; tunafish comes in a can. And “crab” comes in a shell while “crabmeat” doesn’t. And **LOUNE** : Enjoy your crabbapalooza while you can. As you stumble into old age, you may well encounter that ender of mass shellfish consumption: **GOUT**. Me, I wouldn’t eat a shellfish on a bet, but the rest of my family loves 'em. Oh, how my father will sigh as he watches others devour crab and lobster, since he can’t eat it anymore without an attack of gout. And my brother (now 36) just had his very first experience with gout and swears he’ll never eat shellfish again. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/39 "2007-05-31T18:03:04Z")
Ugh seafood. All disgusting. The only seafood I’ll eat is hushpuppies. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114/40 "2007-05-31T18:07:32Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Me, I wouldn’t eat a shellfish on a bet, but the rest of my family loves 'em. Oh, how my father will sigh as he watches others devour crab and lobster, since he can’t eat it anymore without an attack of gout. And my brother (now 36) just had his very first experience with gout and swears he’ll never eat shellfish again. [/QUOTE] Is it the crustaceans or the drawn butter causing the gout? Just askin’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand/406114.md?page=3)