On 2/2/2021 5:17 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 3:18:58 AM UTC-5, Opinicus wrote:
>> First, the so-called "joke":
>>
>> "My friend, celebrating a special occasion, went to a restaurant and
>> ordered what she thought would be a lobster tail. But to her dismay,
>> the entire crustacean was on her plate. "He's looking right at me!"
>> she exclaimed to the waiter. "I just can't eat him." The waiter
>> removed her plate, but returned it a few moments later. The lobster
>> now had a blindfold neatly tied around its eyes."
>>
>> Now the question:
>>
>> I first encountered something like this in an issue of National
>> Lampoon after having been outside the US for about a decade. The
>> NatLamp joke was a cartoon with the caption "Fish with the head left
>> on: Food that watches you eat it" or something like that. I've since
>> heard this "food that watches you eat it" business brought up in
>> real-life situations many times since. Has this become a "thing" in
>> the US? Elsewhere? I never heard of it growing up either in the New
>> York area or in Seattle.
>
> "Growing up" is the key term here. American foodways have expanded
> quite a bit since we were growing up.
>
> That said, you'll mainly see head-on seafood in ethnic and high-end
> restaurants. It hasn't quite penetrated down to Red Lobster.
>
> I've had head-on finfish in Chinese restaurants, and head-on shrimp
> in Japanese restaurants.
>
> Oh, and don't forget head-on crawfish in classic Louisiana crawdad boils.
> I learned to "suck head" about 32 years ago during a visit to
> Thibodeaux, LA.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

Several years ago we took a short vacation to New Orleans , ordered
shrimp creole in a restaurant . Imagine our surprise when there was a
whole shrimp perched atop the dish staring at us ...
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