# I Pit Crab Juice **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808 "2007-07-07T03:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/21 "2007-07-07T23:06:14Z")
There is a Korean food called Kejang (approximately translated as crab paste) which amounts to crab innards fermented in soy. It is by far the vilest thing I’ve ever tasted. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/22 "2007-07-07T23:23:51Z")
[QUOTE=Saintly Loser] …the classic Irish breakfast. Eggs, baked beans, white pudding (sort of caseless sausage), black pudding (fried clotted blood), sausage, ham, and, for some odd reason, a piece of fried tomato. [/QUOTE] It’s an important part of a balanced breakfast! 😃 CMC fnord! Damn, now I’m hungry too! ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/23 "2007-07-08T04:42:48Z")
[QUOTE=Saintly Loser] So what’s the most disgusting thing you’ve ever eaten? [/QUOTE] Among others, rotten softshell crab “sushi” in Jackson, WY. I immediately spit it out, but my sister was buzzed and overdosed hers with wasabi and didn’t. The aftertaste, really got her attention though. The look on her face? Priceless. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/24 "2007-07-08T06:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] Koreans eat live squid. Not as a show of strength, though - just because they think it’s good. I’ve tried the smaller kind once. It was okay, but the idea is just so squicky that I didn’t enjoy it very much. [/QUOTE] Oops, you’re right. It took me 15 minutes of alternating between “squid/swallow/live/korea/sushi” in google, but [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannakji) it is! I assumed it had something to do with honor and strength and all that la-la-la because in the documentary I saw happened to be about martial arts. Thanks for the catch. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/25 "2007-07-08T06:25:13Z")
:smack: double post ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/26 "2007-07-08T08:56:08Z")
I have been waiting for someone to make this post, because my brother has the best “foul food” blog. Two examples: > [@](#): > > was in chinatown & everytime i go to chinatown i like to get a different wierd chinese softdrink, i’ve had coffee, milk, carrot, bacon, bannana, basil eyes, prawn, some i cant even describe, just from memory, i do it to feel worldly, truth is it’s cos i have an insatiable appetite for this kind of thing - oh yeah, here’s a challenge - pick something fucked up, i’ll make a soft drink out of it & film myself drinking it for you (not like bong water, i’m not johnny fucking knoxville) winner gets a prize. that’s right its a competition. > > anyway this little beauty has been looking at me for weeks, teasing me, undressing me with it’s little (note banned in australia) tin can eyes. - asparagus softdrink - $1.20 of the worst aftertaste & churning stomach you’ll ever suffer. > > you get it in your mouth and your tongue is all like “dude, i dont have tastebuds that register fucking disgusting” and your all like “sorry bud” and he’s all like “that’s cool” then it hits the gag - and if you’re not a sword swallower (or someone else trained in the arts) at that point you’re in very real trouble. > > but persevere it gets worse - but maybe asparagus soda & half litre of rum & raisin icecream & miscellanious nori rolls aren’t the best of bedfellows. > > the good news is it’s not over, just like it’s preserved of freshly picked cousins - turns your pee bright green. hello ladies. > > it’s the same reason they don’t make motorbikes with babyseats on the front - it’s a fucking stupid idea (if you steal my idea you are so fucking sued) who am i kidding - i’m at work at the moment and my contract SPECIFICALLY say’s anything i do here is owned by the company i work for. so there. > [@](#): > > ok, saute’ some mushrooms or if you cant be bothered get a can of mushrooms in butter sauce - but be warned, they are the scabbiest mushrooms that’s why they put them in sauce. cos you cant SEE how scabby they are. > > what you need to do now is blend the mushroomy stuff with some eggs and maybe put some brown sauce in there. then into a tall glass. > > put it all in the microwave for a couple minutes. the floating mushroom chuncks will now be suspended in a glass tall steaming pillar of egg. this is what you want. if you’ve done it wrong there will be mushrooms & egg all over the ceiling of your microwave. just scrape it up, put it back in the glass & try again. > > now get a tin of peeled tomatoes & bung them in a fry pan with some onions. shuffle it around at low heat like you know what your doing - if you have some red wine, nows the time. be warned. it always comes out of the box quicker then you expect. > > leave it for a bit and go play tekken. when the smoke alarms go off your almost there. > > cut your egg mushroom log into inch thick slices & rest on a half bowl of the tomatoee crap. garnish if your a jerk. Gah, I love this guy. ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/27 "2007-07-08T09:47:09Z")
Someone needs [Steve, Don’t Eat It!](http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/28 "2007-07-08T17:22:03Z")
That Swedish “delicacy” known as [surstromming](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstromming). It’s basically fermented herring. If the idea of fermented fish sounds good to you (and, to be honest, it doesn’t sound bad at all to me), you’re better off imagining rotting fish dragged through dog shit to imagine the vile odor of this dish. > [@](#): > > hese bacteria produce carbon dioxide and a number of compounds that account for the unique odor: pungent propionic acid, rotten-egg hydrogen sulfide, rancid-butter butyric acid, and vinegary acetic acid. Yumm-o! This is the only substance I’ve ever eaten that made me want to vomit. The most amazing thing was within about 30 seconds of me opening a can of surstromming (outside, of course), a swarm of about two or three dozen flies appeared out of nowhere. I’m completely serious. It’s as if they spontaneously formed from the odor itself. I’ve also had eyeball tacos on Maxwell Street market–they were slightly disgusting (the eyeballs were left whole, not chopped up or anything), but they didn’t taste terrible–just a little organy and bland. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/29 "2007-07-09T14:49:58Z")
[QUOTE=Saintly Loser] As requested by **Green Bean** :…A short list of things I’ve eaten and even enjoyed which might be considered disgusting by others would include (but not be limited to) tripe, sweetbreads, blood sausage, blood pudding, monkey meat, various insects (cooked and raw), chitlins, calf brains, iguana, guinea pig (fried, on a stick), durian, and God only knows what else… So what’s the most disgusting thing you’ve ever eaten? [/QUOTE] I’ve had most of these, including the “God knows what else”. I love crab. And I don’t mind saki. But you say that crab juice as served to you is worse than _durian_? _ **Durian?!!?!!?** _ Enough for me-- I’ll steer a wide course around crab juice. Durian. _shudder_ Even the \*memory \* makes me gag… ---
**Author:** ![Sofaspud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sofaspud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofaspud)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/30 "2007-07-09T18:42:08Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] You probably got one of those nasty [chain smoking crabs.](http://sidewayspony.com/images/trough/production/2007/jul/06/31714_orig_2007070532_1989802902.jpg) [/QUOTE] Psst… Squink? I’m thinking you linked to someone else’s pics, and it appears they didn’t take kindly to it. Unless you WERE referring to the pic you linked to, in which case, color me confused? And now, so this isn’t a total hijack: Earthworm stew. Take a few tubs of several-day-old bait worms, dump 'em in a pot (don’t bother washing them first) with a little bit of water and a box of wine that the poor schlub who brought it will never live down, add the miscellaneous leavings of a week-long fishing trip – crawdad tails, fish heads, whatever – and stir in all the hot sauce you can scrape together. Lubricate yourself well with a bottle of tequila and chow down. WATCH! The amazing faces these crazy drunken bastards make as they force down the Earthworm Stew! LISTEN! To the agonized howls coming from their camp as the vile mixture begins to work on their delicate internal organs. SEE! Projectile vomit! To be fair, none of were planning on eating it when we starting putting it together… but that bottle of tequila and the lack of food in the camp made for interesting rationalizations. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/31 "2007-07-09T18:56:59Z")
[QUOTE=Sofaspud] Psst… Squink? I’m thinking you linked to someone else’s pics [/QUOTE] Ohh, it does look that way now. And here I thought that’s why the site existed in the first place. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/32 "2007-07-09T19:08:58Z")
[QUOTE=El Cid Viscoso] I have found that even when slurped from the navel of a Swedish exchange student, sake always tastes like pee. [/QUOTE] Dude, that wasn’t her navel. And it wasn’t sake. I once took a swig of beer that a cockroach was also imbibing. When it entered my mouth, it was still alive. I didn’t swallow, I spat. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/33 "2007-07-09T20:04:37Z")
[The Jones Soda Holiday Pack](http://www.jonessoda.com/files_new/turkey06.html) I brought it into work a few years ago as a joke, and convinced everyone to try them. They were gut wrenchingly awful. We questioned whether I’d managed find one from the previous year. For hours afterward, if I belched I tasted it. Word got around, and people were coming up from other floors to try the nasty soda. We told them not to, how awful it was, truly horribly vile, but they had to taste it. And then they agreed, it was awful, and went and told their friends, who had to try the nasty soda… The next year, we had people asking if I was bringing them in a week before Thanksgiving. It was even worse. I couldn’t stomach _the smell_ of the brussel sprout soda, much less drink it. We had to throw away the empty bottles outside of the office because of the stench. This past year they had a dessert pack too, but the Thanksgiving set was just as awful. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/34 "2007-07-09T20:15:44Z")
And yet [tomato juice mixed with clam juice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamato) is surprisingly delicious, especially when you have the right [mixers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Caesar). Altho it appears I’m only saying that because I’m Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/35 "2007-07-09T20:36:46Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Among others, rotten softshell crab “sushi” in Jackson, WY. [/QUOTE] Well, there’s your problem right there. Two words that don’t go together are “suishi” and “Wyoming.” ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/36 "2007-07-09T22:57:43Z")
While living in a Native Alaskan fishing village I walked into an elder’s home, and she was eating dinner. I recognized the boiled fish (pink salmon) but not the gallon jar of pink chunks floating in an oily substance. She invited me to join her, but I paused. She told me that her grandson (raised in the Lower 48) had tried it and loved it. I looked at him and he slowly shook his head. I asked her what it was. “Boiled humpy and stink oil. Doug loves it.” Another look at Doug, who is still shaking his head. I asked him if he tried it, and he nodded. The elder said “It tastes like walnuts!” Doug shook his head. I asked him what it tasted like, he replied “Roadkill”. I passed. I also passed on fish head soup and boiled braided seal gut. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/37 "2007-07-09T23:13:51Z")
[QUOTE=Saintly Loser] Come to think of it, “fried clotted blood” describes blood pudding pretty well, and it’s a standard part of the classic Irish breakfast. Eggs, baked beans, white pudding (sort of caseless sausage), black pudding (fried clotted blood), sausage, ham, and, for some odd reason, a piece of fried tomato. [/QUOTE] Which, if you eat quickly and then chase down with two tall iced-tea sized glasses of Powers, will leave you 15 minutes later coughing up ‘rotting-meat shots’ stew. Which brings us back to the Op. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/38 "2007-07-09T23:48:37Z")
[QUOTE=cowgirl] And yet [tomato juice mixed with clam juice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamato) is surprisingly delicious, especially when you have the right [mixers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Caesar). Altho it appears I’m only saying that because I’m Canadian. [/QUOTE] Hey, I’m not Canadian. Not even a little bit. And I luuuurrrrve Clamato. Of course, I am under the care of a psychiatrist. Make of that what you will. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/39 "2007-07-10T01:35:17Z")
Does “crab juice” actually need to be pitted? I mean, any more than fetid smegma or extra chunky menstrual clots? It’s inherently self-pitted by the nature of its very existence. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808/40 "2007-07-10T03:48:01Z")
I’ve been tempted to post this is some of the “what foods gross you out” threads, but I’ll post it here instead. I knew a guy that loved to go fishing and snorkeling for squid and lobsters. When he caught a squid, he would bite out the eye and start eating it while the tentacles were still sucking. And when he caught a lobster, he would crack it open and start eating right there, brains and all. Ack, grosses me out just to think about it. And while I’m sharing this story, I’ll add another unrelated one. Did you know that if you hang an eel up on a clothesline, it will turn itself inside out and its guts will fall out? Well, now you know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-crab-juice/410808.md?page=3)