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Lemon

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Saw this not long ago...
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Wow - Thats pretty huge!

But why would you bring it up to the surface? cant you take the shot down there?
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Looks like a really huge orange peel nudibranch. They are supposed to be edible but I think I would pass on that. :huge:
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That is big. No wonder they renamed in to Tochuina GIGANTEA !
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Brought them to the surface to take a picture and to eat them there so good...Hard to take pictures of them when your getting towed 2.2 mph on a sled...There were lots down there along w/king crab..
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Interesting, How do you prepare them? deep fryin? No offense, but they dont look super appetizing..
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Excuse me? Did you say you eat them? :nutty:
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kdupreez wrote:Interesting, How do you prepare them? deep fryin? No offense, but they dont look super appetizing..
As a southerner, I can confirm that deep frying makes everything taste better. As does gravy. :burntchef:
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Nwbrewer wrote:Excuse me? Did you say you eat them? :nutty:
Actually, this species is regarded as a delicacy in the Russian far East, where it's called "Tochni". If Dave and his family eat them up in Alaska, more power to them. I personally wouldn't want to munch on one, but to each his own! I'm curious, though, if the taste is anything like escargo, which I actually have enjoyed previously.

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Nwbrewer wrote:Excuse me? Did you say you eat them? :nutty:
Tochni - I have heard that native peoples of the regions did indeed eat them. Can't confirm that, and I'm guessing that I probably wouldn't get too excited about the flavor.

Although I wouldn't eat a sea cucumber either, and tens of thousands of people do.
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I'm thinking if you add enough garlic you could get them to taste like escargot.

(rubber + garlic = fancy snail)
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GearHead wrote:I'm thinking if you add enough garlic you could get them to taste like escargot.

(rubber + garlic = fancy snail)

... Out to the garage I go for some old bicycle inner tubes and garlic.. Tah'night wee havin fancie eescaargoo :burntchef:
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Jan K wrote:That is big. No wonder they renamed in to Tochuina GIGANTEA !
That thing is huge! Do they come this far south?
I have tried urchin, moon snail and I think a 'sea squirt', but never a nudibranch.
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fishb0y wrote:
Jan K wrote:That is big. No wonder they renamed in to Tochuina GIGANTEA !
That thing is huge! Do they come this far south?
I have tried urchin, moon snail and I think a 'sea squirt', but never a nudibranch.
I have seen them here, just never that large.
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Penopolypants wrote:
kdupreez wrote:Interesting, How do you prepare them? deep fryin? No offense, but they dont look super appetizing..
As a southerner, I can confirm that deep frying makes everything taste better. As does gravy. :burntchef:

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No,I never ate it returned it to the sea floor & let it grow up....
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Diver_Dave wrote: grow up....
huh???? they get BIGGER????

much bigger and they could eat a diver!

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