Food Critic

I agree. I'm finally coming into a clearing of sorts - it's springtime, and the weather has been unbelievable for the past few days. Not shorts and a T-shirt weather, but 70 degrees seems like the absolute perfect temperature at the moment. Plus I don't have any summer clothes to wear, so I can improvise with what I have left :-) I got sunburned some more today, which tells me that spring is actually a real thing and not some far-off possibility. It's funny that we spent the VAST majority of our time in the dark and cold up here, but we all live for these last two weeks of classes when we're reminded of how that thing called the sun actually feels...

I actually stepped outside of the box and tried some crayfish today - not really worth all the work of pulling off arms and legs and a tail and all that to get to this bland fishy meat. I have this mental block against some foods, like mushrooms and shellfish, where I just won't eat them because I have no desire to. I just decided I didn't like mushrooms one day, I think, and I haven't eaten them since. I don't even remember what they taste like anymore. Likewise, I decided a LONG time ago that shellfish were not for me (the texture's insanely gross) so I had no intention of tasting the crayfish. But there we were in lab, cleaning up after dissecting (what else) a crayfish, and our prof was so determined to get us to eat some that he had cooked for us. I was really not going to do it either, but of course he goes and pulls it apart and hands me the meat and I took it and ate it, just because I knew I would think my way out of it.

It totally wasn't worth it. Tasted like wet chicken.

In conclusion, don't try crayfish, or shellfish in general. I'll stick with chicken and beef, and maye the exotic duck or tuna, but anything with an exoskeleton does not belong on my plate. If you feel the need to waste your time ripping limbs off an animal to get to the ounce of floppy meat in its tail, go for it. Just don't make me eat it.