kame no te

Have you ever had these?

In Japanese they are called "kame no te" (kah-meh-no-tay literally turtle hands)...in English they are percebes.

Thank goodness for the internet as everyone on Instagram told me about these so I knew what to look up.

Apparently they are a delicacy in Spain...they look pretty creepy to me.

Wednesday night, Satoshi brought these home...of course, he didn't have them refrigerated...do you remember his fish story?!

Anyway, I was leery that they weren't edible because they weren't refrigerated, but Satoshi insisted that he wanted to try them.

So, Thursday, I prepped them, you need to remove the "sucker" the part that attaches itself to rocks and other sealife like mussles...

My pinkies were up and gingerly touching them, there were occasional squeals as the buggers would squirt seawater at me when I cut open the pouch like thingy near the "sucker"...

Also, a website I read said to be careful not to cut yourself on the sharp parts...eep!

Here is what is to be eaten when you remove the sucker.

From another angle.

Then I boiled them in some salted water for about 5 minutes (as the website said).

The mussels that were attached went for another 3 minutes, but didn't open, so I threw those out.

Then, I get a text from Satoshi saying he met up with a friend and would be eating out...grr!

So he ate them on Friday.

I waited a whole hour before posting this pic on Instagram, you know, just in case we had to run to the hospital for food poisoning or something...I didn't try them for fear of food poisoning, but he said they taste like clams.

At least "we" experienced a new food thingy, but I don't think I would want to again.