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.

--
Bob
St Francis would have done better to preach to the cats

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

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 ...
--
Snag
Illegitimi non
carborundum

"Snag" wrote in message ...

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 ...

Snag
=

==

I hope you were polite and said hello )

Ophelia wrote:
....
> I hope you were polite and said hello )

as long as it doesn't answer all is good.


songbird

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 08:37:02 -0600, Snag > wrote:

>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 ...

Did you expect a steak?

"songbird" wrote in message ...

Ophelia wrote:
....
> I hope you were polite and said hello )

as long as it doesn't answer all is good.


songbird

===

Very true))))