Calamari, anyone?
If those jumbos make as good a calamari as the small ones I’d think fisherman would have a gold mine there.
Eat some here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamari
There used to be a restaurant in San Francisco named Squids. I ate there one time. I think it’s out of business now.
More info about the big ones here: See also: Cephalopod size
Giant squid measuring over 4 metres without its two long feeding tentacles.The giant squid is the second largest mollusc and the second largest of all extant invertebrates. It is only exceeded in size by the Colossal Squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, which may have a mantle nearly twice as long. Several extinct cephalopods, such as the Cretaceous vampyromorphid Tusoteuthis and the Ordovician nautiloid Cameroceras may have grown even larger.
Yet, giant squid size, particularly total length, has often been misreported and exaggerated. Reports of specimens reaching and even exceeding 18 m (59 ft) in length are widespread, but no animals approaching this size have been scientifically documented. According to giant squid expert Dr. Steve O’Shea, such lengths were likely achieved by greatly stretching the two tentacles like elastic bands.[3]
Based on the examination of 105 specimens and of beaks found inside sperm whales, giant squid’s mantles are not known to exceed 2.25 m (7.4 ft) in length.[3] Including the head and arms, but excluding the tentacles, the length very rarely exceeds 5 m (16 ft).[3] Maximum total length, when measured relaxed post mortem, is estimated at 13 m (43 ft) for females and 10 m (33 ft) for males from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles.[3] Giant squid exhibit reverse sexual dimorphism. Maximum weight is estimated at 275 kg (606 lb) for females and 150 kg (331 lb) for males.[3]
I once was at a buffet dinner in Abu Dhabi where some roughneck referred to calamari as “fried foreskin”. Needless to say that he became very unpopular that evening. I myself couln’t stop laughing for a week.
Ship em to Little Rhody.
We love calamari.