Po widdle cwabbies!
Aftenposten's food writer is in, er, hot water with Norwegian animal rights activists after describing how to cook crabs.
Ekern was saddened by the charges and will meet NOAH at the Conciliation Board on Monday."I think on should turn up and hear what NOAH has to say, and I am especially looking forward to hearing an alternative method of boiling crabs, because they are traditionally boiled alive," Ekern said.
Senior researcher Stein Martinsen at the Institute of Marine Research does not have good news for NOAH.
"It is difficult to kill shellfish in other ways than boiling. I know some who hack lobsters in two, but they have a tiny brain that is not so easy to hit," Martinsen said.
Somewhat like your typical PETA member.
Comments
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: June 16, 2007 10:18 PM
Actually, you're overrating the cognitive abilities of PETA members. I think the animals they love are often smarter than they are.
Now, pardon me, I've got this hankering for Maine lobster done the traditional way.
(And don't sass me about kashrut. I confirmed I can eat it with both the Tseydrayter and the Verblondgeter Rebbes.)
[If you can't versteh the Yiddish, let me know so you can enjoy the joke.)
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: June 17, 2007 06:58 AM
I only do Rosten-Yiddish or German cognates, so ik versteh nit (or whatever that is in Yiddish). But I understand you're from MA, which mades it all clear. As a friend's rabbi once said, "Lobster is kosher, because I'm from Boston, and G-d wouldn't be that cruel."
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: June 17, 2007 10:42 PM
Tsedrayt and verblondget should have German cognates--verblondget has an English cognate (blunder) at least. It means lost. Tsedrayt means confused--it's probably one of those seperable zu verbs Mark Twain loved (zudreien?). Come to think of it, it might be the root word behind dreidle (think of the top's motion as it spins), and of course there's always draykopf.
Hence the humor behind my pet rebbes. The person who ends up in Cincinnati when he means to go to Cleveland is verblondget. The person who goes to Cincinnati because he thinks it's on Lake Erie is tsedrayt.