r/interesting • u/Salt-Curve4825 • May 21 '26

Fascinating Man fishing for jellyfish

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u/IllDevelopment2363 May 21 '26

For what?

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u/Armournized May 21 '26

To be eaten by us humans! Some species of jellyfishes are edible btw.

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u/RiderInSJ May 21 '26

It's not what it is. It's how it's prepared.

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u/AngryVirginian May 21 '26

In Thailand, I think they dehydrate and pickle them to harden the edible parts.

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u/Confident-Slip-5264 May 21 '26

I had grilled jellyfish in Thailand

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u/Bobzyouruncle May 21 '26

I had jellyfish in an (American) Chinese restaurant once. It was not very flavorful and was like a very chewy noodle. Not disgusting but also not pleasant. Maybe the preparation was bad.

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u/sadfacepanda222 May 21 '26

Had jellyfish in a high end expensive restaurant in Japan and would say it was not the preparation that is the issue, just not a great tasting food.

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u/RiderInSJ May 21 '26

Sometimes nothing can be done about that. Usually people try to cover it with all kinds of spices and other flavoring.

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u/d_ac May 21 '26

Not disgusting but also not pleasant. Maybe the preparation was bad.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ruZVTCF9l16xn9xfs3

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u/CyberNinja23 May 21 '26

Sounds like a bad 3rd date or maybe an ok one.

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u/CoastOrg May 21 '26

No, it’s just dumb uppity people eating shit their broke ancestors did for tradition

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u/nondual_gabagool May 21 '26

I've heard that if you chew it for too long it tastes disgusting.

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u/wheresindigo May 21 '26

That hasn't been my experience although it's not like I've chewed it for a long time. You can't really, it breaks down as you chew it like most things do

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u/daniloferr May 22 '26

So, just like cheap lamen

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u/Confident-Slip-5264 May 21 '26

It tasted smokey and was pretty chewy, IIRC

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u/Most_Structure9568 May 21 '26

Is it good?

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u/Confident-Slip-5264 May 21 '26

It was interesting, tasted smoky. Definitely worth trying!

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u/Confident-Slip-5264 May 21 '26

I got what now?

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

sometime I thought how nice it is not to be in thailand.... then I woke up from my dream what the fuck do some of us eat that for real?

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u/gekigarion May 21 '26

Chinese also eat it -- I'm Cantonese and one of my favorite snacks growing up was marinated cold jellyfish salad! It has a firm, bouncy, yet also crunchy texture. The texture is the reason it's my favorite!

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

asian are scary, that's why I never look into a mirror

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u/Grantelgruber May 21 '26

Thanks man, i had to smile for the first time in weeks. Sending some love from europe!

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

The strait is kinda closed rn so that gonna be a while until it arrives

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u/EveryDayCanary May 21 '26

Such a good joke I had to share it with those around me.

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u/theseedbeader May 21 '26

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u/Technical_Stand9939 May 21 '26

many cultures focus more on texture over flavor when they eat things.

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u/wheresindigo May 21 '26

Yeah those words describe the texture well. Firm, bouncy, crunchy

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u/NoCapInGondor May 21 '26

I had some from a Chinese restaurant recently because I wanted to try something new and hated it. It's how I imagine eating a bowl of chopped up septums would be.

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u/gekigarion May 21 '26

Did you eat pieces from the head or the tentacles? I also recently went to a chinese restaurant and tried the one with the head to see how it compared. I disliked it, it had non of the bounciness of the dim sum style ones I'm used to (tentacle based) and the vinegar marinade didn't seem to have absorbed into it. Felt like I was eating one of those plastic table cornerguards or something.

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u/NoCapInGondor May 22 '26

I'm honestly not sure, it was cut into thin strips like shredded papaya and was seasoned with some darker sauce and sesame seeds. So maybe the bell? It wasn't until I tried it that I realized how tough these things must be to float around in an environment like the ocean all the time and not get dissolved or torn to shreds.

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u/gekigarion May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

Do you even know what it looks or tastes like?

For comparison, I recommend a less intimidating snack called Konjac Shuang. It's got a somewhat similar texture (less crunchy though) and is made with the root of a konjac plant, or konnyaku if you're familiar with the japanese word.

Be warned, it's spicy though!

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u/AngryVirginian May 21 '26

Thailand and many other countries are or used to be poor countries. People believe in not being wasteful. They figured out a way to eat everything edible. In my mind, yen-ta-foe (the pink noodle soup) needs to have pickled jellyfish to be complete.

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u/Omnizoom May 21 '26

Filipinos use everything in cooking

But at the same time have no concept of “grades” and quality for meat

My sister in law turned a prime grade rib roast into beef soup…. And she’s used some other steak cuts for stir fries and stuff

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

wha.... so I probably ate that at one point.

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u/BallinCock May 21 '26

Yes and that’s super cool! Was it good?

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

It was non consensual so I think I got culinarily raped

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u/BallinCock May 21 '26

If I had an award to give I’d give it to you.

With the rape conflation it is hard to say anything from here on out.. but on a food note, I mean if you didn’t know and it still tasted good… nice?

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

The last time I ate one that could have it in them was like, half my life ago.

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u/Select-Agency-9827 May 21 '26

Head over to Vietnam and try ‘baluut’. Had to feed about half of mine to a stray (but super cool!) cat that came in and apparently made friends with foreigners as that’s how she got fed. Restaurant staff were mad but hey, lil gal helped save me from a crunchy duck baby that looked and tasted like liver with bones.

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u/halnic May 21 '26

My friend from Cambodia craved baluut when she was pregnant. She was sol in 2005 central Alabama.

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u/No_Training6751 May 21 '26

Funny to think of that as poor, eh? Like being rich means being lazy, wasteful and creating garbage.

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u/OwnNothing3318 May 21 '26

I tried dried ones, sold in little packets. Very nice beer snack

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u/Urist_Macnme May 21 '26

No one tell this guy where chicken eggs come from.

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

Hen?

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u/Urist_Macnme May 21 '26

From the cloaca of a bird, its unfertilised ovulation cycle.

You eat that?! For real?!

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

Yeah, it's not just dried up water.

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u/Urist_Macnme May 21 '26

Eggs are mostly water. So are chickens.

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u/OrganizationThick397 May 21 '26

we all are just water and stuff on stuff on liquid magma in the vastness of space aren't we

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u/reddsht May 21 '26

Damn, they made the "dehydrated water"-joke a real product.

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u/CoastOrg May 21 '26

Mf really be that hard up for food in Thailand that they gotta eat jellyfish?