/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11601743
The Pyura Chilensis looks like a stone, or a tumor that comes straight from Resident Evil or Silent Hill. The inside though, is actually full of blood and iirc, organs. This thing is born as a male and when puberty strikes it becomes hermaphrodite. The reproduction goes like this: the monster ejects a cloud of sperm and eggs into the surrounding waters, if there is one of its kind then the latter will be impregnated; if there is none, it will self-fertilize. In gastronomy, this thing is heavily fished in Chile; fishermen typically cut the chilensis into slices with a handsaw, then use their fingers to pull out the siphons (which they refer to as tetas, or "udders") from the carapace, which is discarded. The flesh is usually sold in strips, but may be canned. It is exported to numerous countries, including, as of 2007, Sweden and Japan. Personally i don't know if the taste is that bad, but surely is a cursed food, in my opinion.