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Official Holiday Lamprey Thread |
tikipaka
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: May 31, 2006
Posts: 633
From: New York
|  Posted: 2008-12-20 02:34 am Permalink
Hey, it's trying to suck the life out of that guy!
These things look as bad as those damn bloodworms that will bite you if you're not careful!
So now we have suckers and biters. 
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MadDogMike
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Posts: 6395
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2009-05-22 7:57 pm Permalink
Happy MemoriaLAMPREY Day!
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The Lounge Tiki
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Joined: May 10, 2009
Posts: 91
From: Chiwai'i (Chicago)
| Posted: 2009-06-04 12:19 am Permalink
It all makes so much sense now...
LAMPREYS FOUNDED AMERICA!!!
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MadDogMike
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Posts: 6395
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2011-04-13 8:15 pm Permalink
Andrew Zimmern samples lamprey in Russia on "Bizarre Foods" (12:40 on the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHReLeErcQY
"Next up, the gnarly looking lamprey. They're mud-dwelling predators that feed off the blood of a host fish. Historically, lampreys were a peasant food popularized when Russians couldn't afford anything else. "Supposedly" it helps to pickle them. It's really just a slender little eel so we're going to take out the center bone. I've had a lot of pickled and cured fish in my life - that's just one of the worst I've ever tasted! The lamprey itself has sort of an ammoniated, sort of spoiled flavor that just won't go away no matter how much salt you put on it. And all of the curing that takes place, the pickling that takes place with it leaches all the fat and all the moisture out of the flesh of the fish itself so what's left behind is a very tough, salty, ammoniated piece of nasty fish. One thing I can say definitively about Russian pickled lamprey is... it's NOT good!"
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pwest71
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Joined: May 04, 2007
Posts: 74
From: Pittsburgh, PA
| Posted: 2011-08-02 06:28 am Permalink
Hey all,
Just saw this and thought it would go here appropriately...
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/02/7228514-last-of-the-lamprey-nw-tribes-drive-effort-to-save-primitive-fish
Paul
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Heath
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Joined: Dec 31, 2005
Posts: 581
From: Suburban San Diego (The Drawer)
| Posted: 2013-02-27 08:15 am Permalink
As if you need a reason besides Snooki to avoid New Jersey.
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