NationStates Jolt Archive

All specimens mine. Several personally collected in Puerto Rico.

Palaemonidae

Undetermined Macrobrachium 1:

http://img86.imageshack.us/my.php?image=macrobrachiumfaustinum8gk.jpg

Undetermined Macrobrachium 2:

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=prmacrobrachium22gy.jpg

Undetermined Macrobrachium 3:

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shrimprear6ah.jpg]

Likely M. acanthurus:

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=macrobrachiumfrontal4of.jpg

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=macrobrachiumrt4um.jpg

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=macrobrachiumsinister9sm.jpg

M. rosenbergii:

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=prawnstretch24dy.jpg

"M. duarii":

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shrimp77be.jpg

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shrimp196pp.jpg

http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shrimp208fy.jpg

Yeah, but do they taste good in a gumbo?

Yeah, but do they taste good in a gumbo?

M. rosenbergii is widely marketed as a food organism.

M. rosenbergii is widely marketed as a food organism.
Yay! You bring the shrimp, I'll cook. Hope you like spicy food.

I love seafood, but I do sometimes wonder how people first managed to look at these sorts of things and think they'd make good eating.

I love seafood...

None of the above are marine organisms. Furthermore, health risks aside, they constitute far too great an investment to even consider consumption.

Dude, that's one huge prawn! Are they that big in real life? :p Yum, yum!

I love seafood, but I do sometimes wonder how people first managed to look at these sorts of things and think they'd make good eating.

You kiddin' me? It's in our nature. I went to see March of the Penguins and walked out of there thinking, "I wonder what penguin tastest like."

I was watching this Dicovery Channel special on deep sea trench monstrosities and all the alien lifeforms that exist 2 miles under the surface all gave me that same thought ...

I wonder what that tastes like.

I'd eat every one of those prawns. :)

You kiddin' me? It's in our nature. I went to see March of the Penguins and walked out of there thinking, "I wonder what penguin tastest like."

They probably taste like chicken. :)

Maybe our ancestors were as adventurous as you. Not that I'm a slacker in that regard; I've eaten most kinds of seafood most of my life. Mind you, I didn't get into mussels until my late 20's. It took me ages to get past the fact that they look like little hairy vaginas.

I was watching this Dicovery Channel special on deep sea trench monstrosities and all the alien lifeforms that exist 2 miles under the surface all gave me that same thought ...

I wonder what that tastes like.

I know for a fact that most hydrothermal vent organisms positively reek of sulfur. As regards other abyssal creatures, the jury remains out.

Dude, that's one huge prawn! Are they that big in real life? :p Yum, yum!

Hardly. Some truly large specimens follow:

Specimen against ruler (http://www.msstate.edu/dept/crec/prawn.jpg)
The massive "Kentucky King" (http://southcenters.osu.edu/aqua/intro/sld013.htm)
New Guinean child holding pair of exceptionally large specimens (http://www.papuaweb.org/gb/foto/muller/ecology/08/)
Exuvia against ruler (http://mentuhotep.homestead.com/files/prawnmolt.jpg)
Owner (http://mentuhotep.homestead.com/files/justmolted.jpg)

Hardly. Some truly large specimens follow:

Specimen against ruler (http://www.msstate.edu/dept/crec/prawn.jpg)
The massive "Kentucky King" (http://southcenters.osu.edu/aqua/intro/sld013.htm)
New Guinean child holding pair of exceptionally large specimens (http://www.papuaweb.org/gb/foto/muller/ecology/08/)
Exuvia against ruler (http://mentuhotep.homestead.com/files/prawnmolt.jpg)
Owner (http://mentuhotep.homestead.com/files/justmolted.jpg)
Kentucky King is the size of a slightly smaller than average lobster!

I thought this was an innovative new spelling for "porn".

I love seafood, but I do sometimes wonder how people first managed to look at these sorts of things and think they'd make good eating.
Um ... hunger?? :rolleyes:

I thought this was an innovative new spelling for "porn".
Pr0n?

Pr0n?

Yes, as in "3y3 1n7 m0ar pr4\/\/n!!!!!!!!!111onehundredandone1111"

I used to visit Puerto Rico a lot. Good to know the food there still rocks