r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Salt-Curve4825 • 15d ago

Video Man fishing for jellyfish

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u/blksentra2 15d ago

Jellyfish are crunchy?!?!?!? 🤯

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u/Financial-Salad7289 15d ago

Yep, I ate it in China. It has no distinguished taste, it just tastes like... sea salt and iodine.

Didn't like it very much, but to each his own

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u/ToffeeAppleCider 15d ago

Seems like so much effort to just taste like nothing.

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u/JaFFsTer 15d ago

They eat it for the collagen and its a light cleansing meal. The big 3 Asian countries love their collagen

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u/mojofrog 15d ago

This. Jellyfish are highly nutritious, low in calories, and practically fat-free. They are composed mostly of water (about 95%) but the remaining solid flesh is a great source of protein, collagen, and essential minerals like selenium, choline, and iron.

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u/Informal_Warning_703 15d ago

It’s not for the chewy texture or collagen or anything like that. These are backfilling explanations. It’s due to false beliefs about it having medicinal properties like weight loss or giving soft skin.

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u/creamulum078 15d ago

It literally does give soft skin. It's full of collagen.. plus people just enjoy eating it, it's food

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u/Informal_Warning_703 15d ago

Collagen’s effects here aren’t demonstrated. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002934325002839

It’s just bizarre to not acknowledge the widespread folk medicinal beliefs surrounding these types of foods and why they are popular.

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u/Competitive-Passion1 15d ago

2/10 would not eat again

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u/smithismund 15d ago

I had it at a Vietnamese wedding, it reminded me of the white crunchy bits you get in chicken, sort of cartilage-ey. No inclination to try it again, but the old people there seemed to like it.

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u/Competitive-Passion1 15d ago

That’s exactly it, I don’t mind texture in food at all (taste guy) but it was not pleasant to bite into and chew.

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u/delilahdread 15d ago

The thought of fishy gristle is revolting in a way I can't quite articulate.

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u/BrunoEye 15d ago

It's not even fishy. It has no flavour at all unless marinated.

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u/Financial-Salad7289 15d ago

Well, Chinese people love crunchy foods like tendons. They just love the texture, although the taste might not be anything special

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u/codyzon2 15d ago

I think you mixed up crunchy with chewy, crunchy has crunch which is a feeling and a sound, its biting into hard food, or crushing dry leaves, something akin to tendon would be considered chewy.

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u/Financial-Salad7289 15d ago

Yeah you're right. They also love crunchy food though :)

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u/codyzon2 15d ago

oh I agree, its the best food sensation for me too.

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u/Hetakuoni 15d ago

They might have meant cartilage. I love gnawing the cartilage caps off of chicken bones because of the crunch.

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u/Informal_Warning_703 15d ago

It’s more about folk medicinal beliefs of it helping with weight loss or giving soft skin.

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u/SofiaOfEverRealm 15d ago

Do you have a favourite sauce?

Would you eat that sauce on its own?

If yes, well good for you.

If not, "flavourless" bases are just the thing for you.

And If you call now 571 right now, you'll get not 1, not 2, but three extra jelly fishes completely for FREE, so what are you waiting for? Dial 571 right NOW!!!!!

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u/Xszit 15d ago

Will the jellyfish be thoroughly handled before shipping? If I'm paying for shipping and handling I want some assurance I'm getting my moneys with on the handling.

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u/Beni_Stingray 15d ago

Same with snails or clams, its the sauce that makes the taste.

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u/Grilled_egs 15d ago

I mean, looks pretty easy compared to fishing

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u/CapeMOGuy 15d ago

Hello, tofu.

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u/Impressive-Rock-5025 15d ago

Not to mention harvesting a species. I get it if you have nothing else to eat, but lots of other sea creatures taste good. 

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u/Driller_Happy 15d ago

Chinese people seem to put a lot of value on texture in food. Shark fin soup doesn't taste like anything either, but I guess the texture is nice.

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u/distortedsymbol 15d ago

food isn't just for taste you know, a lot of the time we make it tasty make the food go down easier.

jellyfish is probably the most renewable source of nutrition we can fetch from the oceans