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The Case for Eating Jellyfish

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Jellyfish salad is in fact a common Korean side dish.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%ED%95%B4%ED%8C%8C%EB%A6%AC%...

It's eaten all over the Far East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish_as_food

Yeah. Chinese people have been eating jellyfish for a while now. It's pretty crunch.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhopilema_esculentum#Use_as_fo...

Agreed. It can be found easily in markets in my hometown (just off the coast, east of China). And it's my favorite dish. Our style is just cutting them into noodles and make it salad. https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%87%89%E6%8B%8C%E9%B2%9C%...

Can’t we just feed it to pigs, and then eat the pigs?

I like the cut of your jib

I've eaten jellyfish as a small side dish a few times. The texture - extremely chewy, with a crunch of chewiness at the end of the bite - was bizarre the first time, but I got used to it quickly enough. I wouldn't mind eating a dish made with it, but it might benefit from a longer, slower cooking process. Or maybe jellyfish is nothing like mammal meat and it wouldn't help, I dunno.

Have you tried any of the "tree ear" type fungi? They have a chewy+crunchy texture and bland flavor too, and I wonder if it's similar.

We call those fungi, "tree jellyfish" in Japan :)

I think that's the same thing (or similar) as woodear mushroom? That's not a bad comparison, just imagine the extreme of that texture.

Jellyfish is nothing like typical fish or land meats, so to enjoy it you need to cook/eat it with the distinctness of the texture as a major part of the experience. I love jellyfish, and the mechanical feeling of chewing it is half of the fun.

I think for people unfamiliar with jellyfish, eating it in a more "experimental" restaurant setting while blindfolded would make it much more interesting, because then you are focusing much more on the texture, and you are expecting something weird and distinct.

>and the UV radiation from the sun should have killed any bacteria

[citation needed]

I've seen plenty of dead things still rot in the sun.

Kerala, southern (almost) tip of west coast of India had jellyfish and puffer outbreaks threatening other catch. Anybody can tell if we can have a booming jellyfish business here?

When life gives you jellyfish...

Reality is lots of people do eat it of course and it's kinda boring. Interesting but not a real unique texture, not a lot of flavour.

For a meat it'll never take of, it's to bland. Kinda like pasta, but it's an animal so not as practical.

As a source of materials, perhaps...

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