Shark Appreciation Thread

[Mark from Plano]

Originally Posted by fareau

I was recently in Toronto speaking at a conference and was invited to dine at a very expensive Chinese restaurant in the city. We were served 8 or 9 courses of food and one of the dishes was a very strange gelatinous soup that had a peculiar fleshy taste. I didn't like the taste at all, but I was told that it was considered a delicacy and so I consumed the entirety of the dish so as not to offend my host. Afterward, I found out that it was shark fin soup. I had just watched a lengthy television special on shark fin soup (and how the fins were acquired) the night before.......

I had the shark fin as a garnish on a dish (I can't remember what now) on a business trip to Bejing in the early '90's. I must say that compared with the sea cucumber and fried scorpions I also had on that trip, the shark fin wasn't that bad.

 

[scarphe]

so they throw the body into the water after cutting of the fin? appreciating shark skin to a degree iw oudl say they thay are wasting a decent skin.

 

[amerikajinda]

 

[tiecollector]

Been watching Shark Week and I just saw Ocean of Fear, which is about the USS Indianapolis and how the survivors one by one got eaten by sharks. 900 overboard and only a few survived. I'm scared enough of large bodies of water as it is.

 

[hadamulletonce]

The Shark

 

[johnapril]

There is no such thing as a brain neoplasm.
There is such a thing as a brain neoplasm.

 

[Mauby]

 

[acidboy]

 

[Tokyo Slim]