If'n I had a dime for every time I tried to get a family member to try seafood that wasn't fish... I'd have enough for dinner tonight, at least. Thank God there's a Mexican joint nearby that sells good seafood.
Although I won't lie, my digestive system didn't feel right afterward... maybe that has something to do with the stigma against it?
Here's hoping that my fellow sea foodies do well... wait, when does the Splatfest end over there?
Believe me, a lot of people can't stand fish at all. It makes me think of that scene in that episode of
The Flintstones where the Flintstones and the Rubbles went camping. Wilma says, "I hate skinning fish." Betty responds, "I hate fish, period." I was little at that time and grew up eating a lot of seafood because my parents ate a lot of seafood (my father, when he'd visit a McDonald's, would order only Filet-O-Fishes), so I thought it weird to see someone not liking any fish. I then went asking around at my school and found out that a majority of my classmates, schoolmates, and their parents did not eat seafood in any form.
Definitely, I hadn't thought about how seafood is way more finicky than most terrestrial foods to cook. The moment it's completely frozen, its texture is destroyed. It has to be prepared very soon after it's fished/harvested because it spoils quickly. Some common seafood animals, like catfish and most bivalves, are bottom feeders and can be reservoirs for germs and thus have to be cooked well, but not SO well that its texture, well, is destroyed. Scallops are the perfect example: They often have tons of disease-causing stuff in them. Even a perfectly clean scallop is difficult to prepare properly. If it's undercooked, it'll be mushy yet stringy, and if it's overcooked, it'll be gummy and tough. It's not like a steak, where you can put it on a flat frying pan, wait for a few minutes, then turn it over, wait for a few more minutes, and it's ready to serve, and certainly not like most fruits and vegetables, which can be eaten raw.
