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Playing With My Food

written by John Chow on March 2, 2007

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

How many times have your mom told you not to play with your food? Well, she may change her mind if she saw what I had for dinner. Either that or she’ll faint. Some will no doubt use the following video as proof that I am the root of all evil. Not only do I slay baby pandas, but I also torment poor helpless lobsters by showing them what their insides looks like.

The lobster is served raw. Well, the tail is served raw. They separate the lobster between the head and tail, cut up the tail meat and serve it to you while the lobster is still alive (no doubt wondering where its tail is). This proves to the dinners that the lobster is fresh.

After you consume the raw tail (which is really good), they take the lobster away and fry it so you can go after the claw meat.

After finishing that, they take it away one more time and use its skeleton as the flavor based for a soup.

Nothing goes to waste! :twisted:

The Last Thing The Lobster Saw

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Thanks to Ilker for the Photochop.

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Ah Pinchey, you're delicious....

Hey John.. maybe you can change the link on this post? You seem to be linking to past posts all the time..

yummy in the tummy!

I think thats a bit cruel, do they move around much after being cut open?

I agree to a point, but buying meat with a bar code on it makes it a bit too easy, seeing the reality of it may make you eat less, though not in Johns case obviously :twisted:

Ewww ... no offense John, but I really don't think I could eat an animal while watching it die.

I guess I'm just not evil enough :twisted:

The picture of you holding the fork looks like you are doing an impression of Wolverine!

Where is this place at?

How would one like to be 'boiled' alive? If the lobster had a voice, it would have probably screamed the entire place down! Besides the point, it sure looks yummy!

Yeah I heard if you boil a lobster live, then it starts screaming! :sad:

Actually, I think that's myth...

I did not notice their vocal chords in the first place. :smile: Who would be left at the table if it did?

Alternatively, if you put it water that is a temperature that is "comfortable" for the lobster and slowly increase the temperature to boiling, the lobster will not struggle at all. It's the sudden change in temperature that puts it on alert.

Wow...this "cruel" image and not a negative comment until Bert...I LOVE IT!

And where do you find this? I wanna try it someday!

Wow that is crazy cool! Live lobster... one day you guys will have to invite me out so I can try all these cool things. I feel so deprived!

I've had a fish served to me live once. They cut the head/tail, and gut it.

THe mid-section, where all the flesh is, is hacked and cut into nice thin strips of sashimi.

The fish head is still alive, and the gill will flap, and its eyes will move.

It's so fresh and good.

Umm . . does this qualify as cruel and unusal punishment? . . . actually, check that . . now I'm craving some live lobster and am on a quest to find it in SoCal!

I'll pass on that one! I have one main rule when it comes to food: If it's moving, I don't eat it. -Except for Jello, of course.

Well, what if it once moved? Now it moves, next it doesn't. That's Live animals for you. :lol:

This is the evilest thing I've seen all day. :razz:

We are in a current world where humans 'eat' humans, anyway. *grins, anyway it is seafood. Not like it is some other 'live' animals.

I dont think i could ever eat a live animal. I personally think that animals should be killed humanely and as quick as possible. Usually with a lobster that means a very sharp point of a knife directly into the head.

Cutting the lobster in half and have it squirm about at your table is a little sick if you ask me.

Well why ever not? We have steamboat meals sometimes and we do throw live seafood into the boiling pots. Sounds sick? Not really.

Lobsters probably actually don't feel pain and the best way to cook them is to throw them live into a pot of boiling water.

You people are giving these creatures feelings and personalities...like we're eating something with human traits but the reality is, these are animals and they are here for us to eat. Whether or not we do so while they're still alive seriously doesn't matter.

The video doesn't seem to work for me..I can't click the play button. Sidenote, I don't like seafood! :D

I had the same problem in Firefox! It worked fine when I switched to internet explorer though.

Can you guys watch YouTube videos on YouTube's site?

Eww... That looks so gross.
Eating an animal alive surely loses my appetite.

wow live huh, never done that before

That's pretty amazing.

I love the attacking fork picture!

Me too! Bring on the Next one, please! err.. if there is any left.

Well wow, that's certainly new for me. I'm a dedicated carnivore and all but man... That certainly takes it to a whole new level.

On the bright side, I don't eat shellfish so I won't ever have to personally wrestle with the weirdness of this dish.

yikes, what else can I say!

Btw, what Japanese restaurant is this? :?:

Yeah - deets please, we need to know where to go! ;)

John tells me that this was in Shanghai.

Shanghai?!

I would've guess somewhere in Vancouver...

Yum! John, still can't seem to click play for your embedded YouTube vids from Firefox. No problems in IE. Any others experiencing the same?

Sorry to tell you this, but no. There must be an issue with your install :(

It's not an install issue it's a pre-2.0 issue. Upgrade you Firefox and you'll be all good.

I have the latest Firefox and it's a no go. I have to watch it in IE.

Are you sure it's the latest in the 2.0 thread. They're still providing updates for earlier 1.x versions so you will have the latest version in that thread. You can't go to 2.x via an auto update, you have to go download again.

Or, while in Firefox, click Help->Check for updates.

I've never eaten lobster and I'm not sure I ever will.. Not really into the posh food really :smile:

That is absolutely disgusting, you really do make me sick, John. Eat at a Burger King just once, damn.

As far as your blog earnings go, I applaud you, this much can't be denied, your hustle is immense. It's amazing that you make as much as you make considering you talk about how much make publicly.

I knew ReviewMe was the gonna be number one, I told my wife that no more than a quarter of the income was from Adsense, you are catering to webmasters and webmaster wannabes, they are ad blind.

Just don't expect me to hop on your sack like the rest of the rest of your users.