I had that at the inlaws not too long ago, purchased in a plastic box from Waitrose, and found it rather lacking. Someway between cabbage and asparagus, with the quality of neither.
Here’s a pic of some recently deceased crayfish.
A man from Leeds was recently ordered by a court in Kendal, Cumbria to pay £4,000 in fines after catching and eating about 40 creatures he thought were American signal crayfish, but were actually the white-clawed species.
Possibly similar to what they do here - for pacific salmon, they flash freeze at point of catching to kill parasites before thawing and turning into sashimi/sushi. If done properly, texture etc is unaffected.Cornwall last week:Have been catching mackerel in Connemara for many years and cooking fresh in various ways. A few years ago made some friends (Japanese/ Irish couple) there who used to eat it raw ... but my wife (also Japanese so she should know and isn't usually coy about raw stuff ... sea urchin ripped straight off a rock for example) reckons there are some known issues: some kind of micro-worms or something? Maybe worth researching before you sashimi your mackerel again anyway.
Caught some Mackerel which we had grilled plain with a homemade Thai dipping Sauce on the side (galangal, coriander leaf, fish sauce, chilli, garlic, lime juice) and some raw as sashimi with soy and wasabi. Both really good, the uber fresh sashimi was a revelation, best taste and texture of any I’ve had.
Get a grip, as if I’m going to go round slaying the native and highly endangered white-clawed crayfish!
Do I have ‘clueless fucker’ written across my bearded face?
(http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7889/4795712659b55f2f511e.jpg)Not sure about the lump lagers ...... Easiest way to tell them apart is if they're big (15cms+) then they're Signals ..... Also the underside of a Signal's claws are bright red ..... Hard to tell after they've been cooked though ;).....
It's that second ridge/lump behind the eye that proves its a signal, isn't it?
Just about to start googling to educate myself properly...