4 posts tagged “fish”
Water and oil don't mix, so the fish can live happily and feed on the breading that falls through. Obviously they can't go near the super hot "surface".
Apparently this is a demonstration and not actually intended as a home for your goldfish. The point is that the water doesn't cause an explosion when in contact with the hot hot oil. But that's not as cool as the fish in the fryer.
I can't decline any Latin verbs anymore - but the one thing from Latin class that I'll never forget is discovering that the Romans enjoyed dormice. As food!
Here is a recipe for pork-stuffed dormice and so much more.
The Romans also insisted on drowning almost everything they ate in garum, which is a fish sauce. While apparently okay-tasting, it was made by pickling any spare bits of fish and then letting them rot until liquified for a few months. There are still many modern cuisines (including Thai) in which fish sauce plays a very important role. However dormice have gone considerably out of style.
Massage therapists should be wrangling the knots in my back, not live animals.
In Japan there are exfoliating procedures involving scavenging fish that eat dead skin cells.
In the Netherlands there is a face cream that contains snail slime extract.
And of course, our whale friends are so kind to barf up hunks of ambergris with which to make expensive perfumes.