the other half of my soul

[cimorene]

cimorene: Did you see where lately commented that she and sandwich_armada were talking about needing a stick to poke a jellyfish and girlfriends and they were like -
waxjism: - Haha, yeah - "You can't poke a jellyfish with your girlfriend!"
cimorene: Well, you can't.
waxjism: You can, actually. She just might not -
cimorene: - She wouldn't like it. She'd be like "What the fuck?" Nobody wants to poke a jellyfish. Even a dead one. The only thing worse would probably be a Portuguese Man'o'War...
[Pause, then cimorene and waxjism, simultaneously, both sotto voce]: Those bitches.
cimorene: We're clearly made for each other.
waxjism: Nah, we just spend a lot of time together.
cimorene: LOL ILU

Comments

[basingstoke]

ADORABLES.

[pierydys]

Or, y'know, adorkable.

And also, it might be ridiculously hard to find, but when I do, I am *so* bringing you peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches.

[cimorene]

What, really? That sounds gross! :O

[pierydys]

LOL. Well, they sold jellyfish all the time at the Japanese store next to our old apartment. It doesn't really have much of a taste, of course, being mostly water. It's more of a texture thing. Sort of... crisp yet toothsome. Like a cross between octopus and cucumber. It's usually used in salads, or at least that's where I tended to find it on menus. But if you like seafood, I don't think you'd have too many problems trying it out, other than getting beyond the mental barriers. And I had many more issues with eating sea cucumbers than jellyfish, when I first encountered both. But that's another story entirely.

The PBJF sandwich thing is just a play on ingredients that a local food blogger came up with a few years ago, and which I find highly entertaining.

So there ya go, more than you ever needed to know about jellyfish, from a throwaway comment that was never even meant to go down this road ;-)

[cimorene]

Wow! In retrospect I should have realized because I know most sea creatures are eaten somewhere, but I just... would NOT have imagined that jellyfish were edible at all. Hahah.

Not that I'll be trying them anytime soon, because as it happens I dislike most seafood. But I guess if threatened with a hot poker I would.