July 23, 2012 - Glass Eels

CaliforniaMama • Jul 23, 2012 12:32 pm
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[SIZE="2"]Transparent and needlelike glass eels rush into the estuary during winter, after a long-distance migration for months from the open sea.[/SIZE]


Photograph by Leon Liao, Your Shot, National Geographic
Happy Monkey • Jul 23, 2012 12:50 pm
I don't mind eels
Except at meals.
And the way they feels.
Sundae • Jul 23, 2012 1:12 pm
Wouldn't get a decent sized portion of jellied eels out of that lot!
Nirvana • Jul 23, 2012 2:20 pm
reminds me of a movie where this guy was fishing for eels with a horse head. GAK! Can't remember the name of the movie ...
glatt • Jul 23, 2012 2:30 pm
The Tin Drum had a scene like that. Messed up movie.
Diaphone Jim • Jul 23, 2012 7:59 pm
I have had to fight to get some recent images to open, this one included.
I think I may have finally gotten it by enabling third party cookies.
Why should the IOTD need third party cookies?
Undertoad • Jul 23, 2012 8:34 pm
I don't think this is anything Cellar-related. The image is hosted on cellar.org so there are no third parties involved.
jimhelm • Jul 23, 2012 9:08 pm
they look like the things from Matrx 2 or 3.
SPUCK • Jul 24, 2012 6:22 am
Glass eels.. Way classier than the common Plastic eels.
ZenGum • Jul 24, 2012 6:58 am
Despite all the progress of feminism, eel catching remains a male-dominated industry, and now we know why.

It's the glass eeling, folks, and it is time to change.


I'm here till Sunday. Try the unagi.
DanaC • Jul 24, 2012 7:18 am
Oh dear. Zen, that was really goodbad.
newtimer • Jul 24, 2012 8:32 am
It doesn't seem right to refer to them as seafood when you cannot see them.
CaliforniaMama • Jul 24, 2012 11:22 am
I'd be afraid to touch them. What if they break?
classicman • Jul 24, 2012 11:35 am
Glass Eels Hit $950 Per Pound
Sundae • Jul 24, 2012 3:15 pm
Are they being served with a crepe there?
Gravdigr • Jul 25, 2012 3:32 pm
classicman;821478 wrote:
Glass Eels Hit $950 Per Pound


:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

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glatt • Jul 25, 2012 3:59 pm
Wow, compare that with $2/pound for lobster.
classicman • Jul 25, 2012 9:45 pm
Dried morels are $230 a pound and I thought that was ridiculous.
Trilby • Jul 25, 2012 10:01 pm
That is totally disgusting.

Ugh.
Ibby • Jul 25, 2012 10:51 pm
almost as cool as the Glass Frog:
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SPUCK • Jul 27, 2012 6:54 am
It's probably one of those things where a pound of glass eels will fill a wheelbarrow.
xoxoxoBruce • Jul 29, 2012 9:43 am
MA eel-evator
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Sundae • Jul 29, 2012 9:48 am
Har-witch. Snicker.
Harridge.
CaliforniaMama • Jul 29, 2012 7:34 pm
xoxoxoBruce;822087 wrote:
MA eel-evator


They have to COUNT those wriggly little bits of slime every day? :eek:

Wow. I don't think I'll be volunteering for that any time soon.

What was the ONE he counted separately?
xoxoxoBruce • Jul 29, 2012 10:56 pm
Sundae;822089 wrote:
Har-witch. Snicker.
Harridge.


What is Harridge?
Sundae • Jul 30, 2012 7:48 am
xoxoxoBruce;822156 wrote:
What is Harridge?

It's where you get the ferry to the Hook of Holland (Hoek van Holland).