Swimming with the Great Whites

[Swordmaker]

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[Calpernia]

Oven-Fried Shark


# 2 lbs. skinless Shark Steaks or Fillets
# 1 cup Instant Mashed Potato flakes
# 1 package (7/10 oz.) Garlic Salad Dressing mix
# 1/4 tsp. Pepper
# 1 Egg (beaten)
# 1/4 cup Margarine or Butter (melted)
# Paprika

Combine potato flakes, salad dressing mix and pepper in a shallow dish. Dip fish into egg and roll in potato mixture. Place fish in single layer on a well-greased bake and serve platter (16x10 inches). Pour margarine over fish. Sprinkle with paprika. Bake in extremely hot oven 500 degree for 10-12 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork. Makes 6 servings.

[Killborn]

HA! I can top that!

Elephant Stew

Ingredients:

1 elephant
10 warthogs
100 kilograms tomatoes
1000 kilograms potatoes
2 bags onions
100 kilograms salt
1 wheelbarrow onions (heaped)
10 liters vinegar
20 liters chutney
4 guineafowl

Preparation:

Hunt the elephant, warthog and guineafowl. Hang guineafowl to ripen. Cut elephant into edible chunks (will take about a month). Boil the warthog with other ingredients (except guineafowl) till nice and juicy. Now boil elephant chunks over high flames till tender (will take about 4 weeks) and add everything together. Boil for another 5 to 7 days.

Produces about 3,500 helpings.

Note: If the above isn't enough, add the guineafowl as well.

[Jeff Chandler]

Cube the shark steaks, sprinkle with garlic salt, wrap with bacon, stick bacon to cubes with toothpicks, and grill.

Tastes like pork!

[spokeshave]

" “My father found me on the bottom of the pool buddy-breathing — a pretty advanced technique for sharing an oxygen tank — with a family friend.”

OXYGEN tank...? I stopped reading right there.

As for the Costeau clowns.....responsible for the greatest ecological disaster since humans walked the earth.

Introduced a toxic and indestructable fast growing sea weed into the mediteranean.

In 50 years immigrants from North Africa will be able to walk to Europe.

[Calpernia]

You are kidding me! There are recipeds for ELEPHANT???

Well, I guess so. I have no idea why I didn't think there would be.

Wow.

[Calpernia]

Now that sounds great! I've never added bacon to fish dishes. No idea why I have not tried that before.

Thank you.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“The whole point is to fool them into thinking I’m a shark.”

I see a problem with this "submarine". Visually, I'm sure it is very impressive. But Great White sharks do not rely heavily on visual stimuli. Their world is perceived mainly by their sense of "smell" and through electromagnetic cues picked up by other sensory organs that we lack. They will not be fooled into thinking this sub is another shark simply because it happens to look somewhat like a shark. In fact, the electromagnetic noise this thing puts out would likely have unintended consequences and elicit unwanted behavior from the shark. This could range from spooking it to perturbing it.

[Sam Cree]

"Not such a strange endeavor, perhaps, for a third-generation oceanographer who was practically born with fins"

I always thought the Cousteaus were more explorers and eccentric screw offs, sort of nautical beach bums, than oceanographers.

I enjoyed the Cousteau shows and books greatly, though, while growing up.

[Sam Cree]

Well, Cousteau is one of the inventors of the aqualung, IIRC. I hadn't know about the sea grass disaster, though.

[Bush2000]

Good Lord, I wouldn't want to be the one who has to "test" this sub in the presence of Great Whites. If the movement isn't right, it could have the unintended consequence of making the real Great Whites think that it's wounded. Have you seen the stats on the bite pressure in lbs/sq.in. of a Great White? Omggggggggg....

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I wouldn't want to be the one who has to "test" this sub in the presence of Great Whites.

Yep. Takes a bigger set of onions to crawl into this thing and swim with the sharks than it does to get into that bear-proof suit that got that Canadian rube killed last year.

Or a bigger fool.

I just hope they get good quality video from a solid 3 camera setup. I want good coverage when Msr. Cousteau's last moments on Earth are shown on "Most Amazing Videos".   =;^)

[Jeff Chandler]

Thank you.

You're welcome. BTW, you should slide the cubes onto a shish kabob skewer for easier handling on the grill. Leave a little space between the cubes.

[Killborn]

It's a joke but I'm pretty sure you could do it. Also there's a recipe for stuffed camel which is either Arab folklore or very real. But in any case it was published in a book called "International Cuisine". Here's the recipe:

Stuffed Camel

1 whole camel, medium size
1 whole lamb, large size
20 whole chickens, medium size
60 eggs
12 kilos rice
2 kilos pine nuts
2 kilos almonds
1 kilo pistachio nuts
110 gallons water
5 pounds black pepper
Salt to taste

Skin, trim and clean camel (once you get over the hump), lamb and chicken. Boil until tender. Cook rice until fluffy. Fry nuts until brown and mix with rice. Hard boil eggs and peel. Stuff cooked chickens with hard boiled eggs and rice. Stuff the cooked lamb with stuffed chickens. Add more rice. Stuff the camel with the stuffed lamb and add rest of rice. Broil over large charcoal pit until brown. Spread any remaining rice on large tray and place camel on top of rice. Decorate with boiled eggs and nuts. Serves friendly crowd of 80-100.

[Calpernia]

You really could have had fun with me and the elephant recipe. I fell for it hook line and sinker.

But the camel is real.

There is one listed on my auction board:

http://breederville.com/auction/auctiondetails.php?id=100103

The breeder wrote a paper on the history of camels and their uses and posted it at his auction:

http://breederville.info/petnews/lostworldcamels.html

Urine is even used for disinfectant.

[Killborn]

Yes the Arabs do use them for a variety of dishes but do they actually roast, bake, or stuff an ENTIRE camel the way we do with chicken and turkey?

[Calpernia]

I really have no idea how they prepare them. That paper I posted a link to just said they are used for food.

I would imagine you could, somehow, roast an entire animal.

[Killborn]

It'd be interesting to see if someone ever tried the camel and elephant recipe. I don't really doubt that ppl eat these creatures. Anything that can be eaten probably will be; beavers, kangaroos, tortoise, spiders, seals, dogs, cats, whales, octopuses, etc. Heck, even predators of humans aren't immune! My uncle ate an alligator and no doubt you've heard of dishes made from sharks, snakes, piranhas, lions, other people...

Oops. Way too much info...

Anyhoo, for a variety of fun cuisine check out these threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1290026/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1274205/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/842393/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/997493/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1358713/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1355906/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1302241/posts

[Calpernia]

Thanks. I will try to visit those threads.


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