I have been fortunately enough to have visited Norway, but that was over 10 years ago. In the land of the most feared warriors during the Medieval time, the men are now gentle and the blonde women are very pleasant. One thing I found odd was that in Oslo the Norwegians enjoyed rubbing shoulders w/ each other and I wasn’t quite used to such invasion of my personal space. “Not enough people around!” was the typical answer to my question.
And I have never liked crab. It’s a bottom feeder, eating decaying dead things and sh*t. I don’t mind the hard shell (I like lobsters) but it also has some very fragile uneatable bones inside, so there just isn’t much meat, and the effort just isn’t worth the trouble. I admit that I have just not got the skill and the agility to eat crab.
Check this out. There is a plague of giant monster crabs in Norway. Just as when I am considering whether to abandon eating shark fin and wild corel reef fish, I suppose I could adapt and munch on big crab legs.
Here is a back of napkin business plan: a bunch of cheap Chinese labourers, hundreds of crab cages, a few crab-fishing boats and a crab processing plant near the shore. Rip the legs off the crabs and freeze those legs as they are. Turn the crab meat into packaged frozen crab meat. Send all these stuff by the plane load to Hong Kong and China. Grind up the crab shells into powder form and sell them as fertilizers and building material. We could be making billions of Kroners (1 Kroner is about HK$1.2)! AND we are doing good for Norway, by keeping lives on its ocean basin sustainable. Jobs for the fellow countrymen as well as the locals. We might even become honoured citizens and get to meet the Norwegian King!
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1 James // Nov 16, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Once the Chinese were in on it, they won’t last 5 years.
There was a special on 60 Minutes, I think it was, about a large beach in the US absolutely filled with shellfish such as clams and oysters for decades. Suddenly, people see a few Chinese picking them up. A few more Chinese a few months later, and a few more on and on. Within 8 years, the beach was completely emptied off of shellfish!
I am not sure if giant crabs grow any faster than shellfish but it seems to me that there are a lot more shellfish than crabs around.
Chinese may not be locust or maggots but we eat pretty damn near as much and we eat anything with its back facing up and legs underneath. If tables and chairs were edible we’d eat them too.
2 Toby Chiu // Nov 22, 2006 at 4:42 pm
We Chinese should be proud of ourselves that we can make virtually anything taste good.