Which seafood is the best?

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Which seafood is the best?

  1. Lobster

    4 vote(s)
    20.0%
  2. Shrimp

    6 vote(s)
    30.0%
  3. Scallops

    2 vote(s)
    10.0%
  4. Oysters

    3 vote(s)
    15.0%
  5. Mussels

    2 vote(s)
    10.0%
  6. Crab

    3 vote(s)
    15.0%
  1. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Which seafood is the best?

    I personally just adore lobster, shrimp, scallops, mussels, and raw oysters.
     
  2. Anders Hoveland

    Anders Hoveland Banned

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    The options in the poll are all shellfish.
    I love fish but not really shellfish. Some people are allergic to shellfish you know.

    I have heard that abalone is really good though, but never tried it.

    Have an old can of Sea Turtle soup, belonged to my grandfather's mother.
    Probably no longer good, but who knows? Might open and taste it someday.
     
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    Rickity Plumber Banned

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    I am surprised you do not have Stone Crab on your list. This is the Cadillac of crab. Only in season for two months in winter along Florida coastlines. Along the lines of opilio (snow) crabs but oh so tender!

    The only crab that is a renewable resource. Take one claw, toss it back in the water and it grows another! The claw can easily break a broomstick so think of that chunk of meat you can sink your teeth into!
     
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    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    Invalid thread as no types of finfish were mentioned in it.

    The best seafood is wahoo, followed closely by cobia and Ahi tuna.

    Shellfish is also good, but not as good as the best fish.

    Of your choices it's a tossup between scallop, shrimp and crab.

    Also, you should have specified types of the above. Maine lobster is much better than caribbean lobster (and is a totally different species).
     
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    I have eaten sea turtle steak... It was excellent.. I like all seafood except swordfish.. I particularly like conch.
     
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    All crabs are renewable, as long as you don't take the fertile she-crabs. Also, there is some argument about how successful stone crabs are at regeneration--rougly speaking they have about a 30-40% mortality rate in the first three days after being declawed.
     
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    oyster or mussel because of the benefits.
     
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    Oh yes............ I love both.
     
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    Tell me how all crabs are renewable . . . Stone crabs are because only one claw is harvested so they still have one bone crushing claw to defend themselves. Catching opilio crabs by the trap-fulls certainly is not renewable.
     
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    I like most seafood having had lobster a dozen times a year my whole life it is no big deal , I love haddock and steamers yum yum
     
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    yum yum gimme sum!!!!
     
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    All crabs are renewable as long as some are left to reproduce. Renewable resources are those that regenerate. Trees, for example, are renewable resources, despite the fact that when you cut down an individual tree it dies.

    30-40% of stone crabs die when they go back into the water with a single claw.

    Catching opilio crabs is renewable, provided enough opilios are left to reproduce and produce more opilio crabs.

    All living things that aren't close to extinction are renewable.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_resource
     
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    Bad poll. No fish. I will not be voting.
     
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    do you prefer lobster or shrimp? you know they taste sooo good!!!!!
     
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    lobster is the best food from the waters of God's Earth.

    tastes soooo damn good.

    I would eat it every day if it was less expensive and had less cholesteral.

    everyone on Earth should eat it.
     
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    You have deliberately left fish off the poll, so I am not voting. Lobster sucks.
     
  18. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    dude, if you don't like the thread, don't respond to it!!!

    jeez, no one is forcing you.
     
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    That's why I made my FISH thread. Astalavista.
     
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    good bye.
     
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    food forum.

    didn't know, sorry.
     
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    I like fried shrimp.
     
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    I prefer a nice halibut steak. Raw oysters are my favorite from those listed. Most people in the US have weak stomachs and can not handle eating raw seafood.

    Give me nice freshly caught North Atlantic oysters, some fresh black pepper and a little lemon juice and I am happy.

    Too many people do not know how to eat oysters. They smother them in hot sauce or some heavy spices and they miss out on the briney oceany taste.
     
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    Yeah...Big fan of salmon Sashimi (raw). agree the Maine Lobster is most tasty. Shrimp....got my vote. Versatile,not over expensive. How it's cooked.. is a factor.
     
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    The best sashimi is blue fin tuna, but I choose not to eat it, and I boycott places that serve it, to protest the overfishing that is causing their extinction.
     

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