Show me your Whelks...

[Fab Foodie]

What?
Nobody keep pet Whelks here?

 

[Baggy]

Mmm, cuddly, aren't they?

 

[Noodley]

That'd need a big pin...

 

[ttcycle]

How about Sea Monkeys then FB if we're talking about the weird and wonderful of the sea..?

 

[Baggy]

I am not going to start a show me your cockle thread .

 

[vernon]

I am not going to start a show me your cockle thread .

I used to have a pet crayfish called Gary.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I used to have a pet crayfish called Gary.

That's made my day!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I've got a pet whelk called Eric.

 

[Panter]

Not a Whelk, but I do have crabs....

 

[rich p]

No whelks but some rollmops, brown shrimps and smoked eel

 

[Fnaar]

No whelks but some rollmops, brown shrimps and smoked eel

... and what's on the plate?

 

[Paulus]

They look like they are enjoing themselves.

 

[XmisterIS]

Uurgh! I hate whelks! When I lived in Essex (briefly, thankfully!), I bought 1/2 pint of whelks from my local seafood vendor (jellied eels, oi oi saveloy, etc).

They came in a liquor that was like goo, and the first one that went in mouth stayed in there for about three seconds before I spat it out into the cat's food bowl and almost vomited into the sink; it tasted like seaweed smells and it had the texture of a rubber balloon.

The cat, however, was going absolutely loopy, meowing, climbing my leg, purring, etc, so I put the whole lot in her dish, including the liquor (which she drank ... uuurgh!! Why do they love to eat such disgusting things?!) and it took her about twenty minutes to eat the whelks because they were so chewy.

Verdict: Whelks = cat food yes, human food no ...

 

[Crackle]

No whelks but some rollmops, brown shrimps and smoked eel

It all looks beret good.

 

[NickM]

I used to have a pet crayfish called Gary.

How do you know he was called Gary?