[turmoil]

So I was thinking, if all thats gonna be left in the ocean is jellyfish, we're gonna need some peanut butter to go along with it.

Who wants to start a peanut butter and jellyfish bistro with me?

[Zardoz]

I don't care how much peanut butter you put on it, or what kind of bread you put it in between, I am NOT going to eat it.

You can have my share. I'll go gnaw on tree bark...

[SchroedingersCat]

Rinse the jellyfish well in cold running water and drain. Put it in a stainless steel bowl and cover with boiling water. Let the jellyfish sit in the water for about 15 minutes or until it is tender. Drain and continue to soak at least 6 times in several changes of cold water. Drain thoroughly and blot dry with paper towels and set aside. Mix soy sauce, sesame oil, vinegar and sugar in a small bowl. Toss the jellyfish well in this sauce and let it sit for at least 30 minutes. Just before serving, garnish with the sesame seeds.

[turmoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SchroedingersCat', 'R')inse the jellyfish well in cold running water and drain. Put it in a stainless steel bowl and cover with boiling water. Let the jellyfish sit in the water for about 15 minutes or until it is tender. Drain and continue to soak at least 6 times in several changes of cold water. Drain thoroughly and blot dry with paper towels and set aside. Mix soy sauce, sesame oil, vinegar and sugar in a small bowl. Toss the jellyfish well in this sauce and let it sit for at least 30 minutes. Just before serving, garnish with the sesame seeds.

[Micki]

The Chinese win again.
They consider Jelly fish being excellent food.


Forget about the peanutbutter. The nuts will be needed to make biofuel.

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'I') don't care how much peanut butter you put on it, or what kind of bread you put it in between, I am NOT going to eat it.

You can have my share. I'll go gnaw on tree bark...

[Concerned]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '
')I don't care how much peanut butter you put on it, or what kind of bread you put it in between, I am NOT going to eat it.

You can have my share. I'll go gnaw on tree bark...

[gg3]

I think if I tried to put one of those things in my mouth, I'd projectile vomit.

See, us doomers do NOT look forward to the shit hitting the fan, because that inevitably leads to the jellyfish hitting the burger stand.

[NEOPO]

I am sorry but a true doomer says that there wont be any jellyfish nor peanut butter to eat!
Only people.....

How bout we call your type "doomers lite" or something?

[SchroedingersCat]

The growing population of jellyfish is a good example of things to come, I think. We've polluted, overfished and warmed the oceans. Taking the energy out (phytoplankton and such) is causing the complex systems to break down and reform in simpler states.

As a simpler state is reached (like jellyfish populations exploding and out-competing more complex creatures) the rate of change increases. Fishermen are finding their nets full of jellyfish instead of more desirable stocks. Bigger fish have less food and the downward spiral increases.

Entropy's a bitch.

[joewp]

This is the series on the the oceans mentioned by Concerned:
Altered Oceans: A five part series on the crisis in the seas(Flash Required and encouraged)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')We're pushing the oceans back to the dawn of evolution," Jackson said, "a half-billion years ago when the oceans were ruled by jellyfish and bacteria."

[smallpoxgirl]

I wonder if it would be kind of like cooking an egg. Maybe it would solidify if you heated it. It probably would be any worse than calamari. People seem to eat calamari, though I can't imagine why. The stingy poison stuff in jelly fish is very heat labile, so I'm sure cooking it would get rid of that.

[turmoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', 'R')ead it and weep.

Literally.

[Micki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') wonder if it would be kind of like cooking an egg. Maybe it would solidify if you heated it. It probably would be any worse than calamari. People seem to eat calamari, though I can't imagine why. The stingy poison stuff in jelly fish is very heat labile, so I'm sure cooking it would get rid of that.

[nocar]

Micki wrote: $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') wan't joking when I said Chinese like it.
They serve it all the time at our loka Yum Cha restaurants.
It is a bit like firm jelly strips and even has a little bit crunch to it.
And although not to my palette it is not as bad as the bone marrow or duck tounges.

[katkinkate]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', 'T')his is the series on the the oceans mentioned by Concerned:
Altered Oceans: A five part series on the crisis in the seas(Flash Required and encouraged)

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')We're pushing the oceans back to the dawn of evolution," Jackson said, "a half-billion years ago when the oceans were ruled by jellyfish and bacteria."

[SchroedingersCat]

Eat or be eaten...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hey are notorious cannibals. They have been called the most opportunistic killers in the sea. They have been observed employing cooperative hunting techniques, yet they will not hesitate to gorge upon one another should they sense the slightest possible opening. Although they primarily hunt fish, they have been rumored to kill and eat small mammals, even dogs. They will attack anything over which they sense an advantage, including humans.

...these animals spend a great deal of time in the ocean’s “oxygen minimum” layer, a shadowy substratum of the sea where little life exists. “We don’t know where they’re getting their oxygen, but there’s no difference in their metabolic activity,” he says. “They act like there’s eight mililiters of oxygen in the water when there’s less than one.”

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('turmoil', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', 'R')ead it and weep.

Literally.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('coyote', 'T')hat series has as much to do with my doomerosity as anything else. Before I read that, I was half hard-lander. Ignorance is bliss. Thanks a lot Zardoz...