I’d like to think that I have a very middle-of-the road palate. And by middle-of-the-road I mean not eating a lot of outrageous stuff like Sardinian maggot cheese or various forms of Cheetos (bar-b-que, ranch, honey mustard et al). Yes, I like my gourmand stuff mixed in with more pedestrian offerings. Think goat cheese and pears with pasta in a balsamic reduction, or an awesome bacon, egg and cheese from the deli on 5th Avenue and 16th Street in NYC… things like this, you know, foodie-lite if you will. But every now and then you come across something that just baffles the mind, and like a kid, once again you can’t get beyond what something looks like, even if it tastes amazing.
I offer you the Geoduck.
This particular clam pronounced the “gooey duck” literally looks like something out of an Alien movie. I swear when I first saw it I thought it was some sort of face hugger. As you can see they are fat, bulbous organisms with some sort of prehistoric tail, and they’ve been known to live for up to 150 years. Yeesh. It is definitely on the weird end of the food spectrum. I’d love to say that I’m brave enough to give eating this duck-clam a go, but mostly I think I’d pass. Anybody ever had one? What do you think? Probably delicious?
Here’s video of how it’s prepared.
Source:
HuffPo
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