Sea Urchins

[mikench]

The season starts tomorrow for " la peche aux oursins" . They are not caught on rod and line but in nets and by scuba divers. I can't say I like them at all. The french love them but I think they are horrible.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

I love most seafoods but have never really liked urchins.

 

[mikench]

Can you do the honours again Peter to say Sea and not ses- doh.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

Done

Easy fix

 

[bullet]

Agree with you both there, the French like a few things that I'm not that keen on...Andouillete for starters....Shudder!

 

[David Gane]

I used to scuba dive and I remember once kneeling on a sea urchin and getting a couple of spines in my knee - through my wetsuit. They stayed in there months then one day came to the surface and just popped out with a little squeeze. A friend of mine used to carry a little gizmo like a hypodermic in reverse for sucking them out.

 

[john step]

I too got some spines into me but in Spain. Very painful. I wont go near them again.

 

[mikench]

Eating the roe from inside isn't for me. I give them a wide birth both from a swimming and culinary perspective.

 

[John Keane]

They are great if you are snorkelling and dive down and smash a couple with a rock. Fish magically appear from nowhere to feast on them and you have your own private aquarium.


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[mikench]

All they are good for and I've done this many a time .