SEE FOOD

You have to be either brave…

Or blind…

To eat certain seafood…

At least for me here in Mexico.

Mind you, I grew up on Long Island…

So I’m used to seafood soups and chowders…

But whatever seafood was in it…

Had pieces. Small pieces.

Except for the sometimes mussel or clam shells…

You couldn’t quite tell what was in those soups.

Sort of like sausage…

Ya don’t really know what’s inside…

But it doesn’t matter ‘cause it tastes good.

Well, the other day…

I went into a cute little seafood restaurant...

So many choices!

I decided on sopa de mariscos…

(seafood soup)

When the waiter set the bowl in front of me though…

It thought he brought out an aquarium…

A tomato based aquarium.
There were lots of boiled bodies, and...
Eeeep!

A tail was hanging out!

Iguana? Gecko? Snake?

Oh wait, ha, ha…

It was a tentacle—a long purple tentacle…

Yeah, the locals eat lots of pulpa (octopus).

And then there were two whole crabs in my sopa…

And I love crab—crab legs, that is…

Or at least parts of a crab big enough to dig into.

But these crabs were so small…

I needed tweezers and a toothpick to eat them…

And they still had their black beady eyeballs.

Sorry, I can’t eat any food that stares at me.

The sopa did smell delicioso, however…

So I took a spoonful.

Bueno! Muy bueno!

Then I realized…

I didn’t have to be blind or brave…

To eat this sopa…

I’d handle it just like I do with my fear of heights…

And not look down.
What about you?
How brave are your taste buds?

Always, Em-Musing