General Discussion / Re: Small Raw Fish should be Eaten Whole
« on: May 21, 2008, 10:29:49 pm »How did you get on with digesting; the oysters you had once caused trouble...
I have no problems digesting oysters.
Those oysters I had trouble with were grown in a dirty / polluted environment. The problem with oysters is identifying a safe source. When I eat oysters at an oyster restaurant, they serve them raw as well, but they know their sources will only sell them oysters from clean waters.
I am always interested in the whole digestion - not just what we put in our mouth.
What about eating fish the way they are - vinegar is not paleo?
One time we got much fresher dilis like the ones above, but much bigger. They were so fresh we ate a couple of them plain without vinegar.
I've seen the fishermen and people who live by the sea eat totally raw fish and shellfish without vinegar. They just wash it in the sea water just as it is collected and then eat.
One time we were vacationing by a beach where the natives collected sea urchins in the morning. We ate the sea urchin meat raw without vinegar just like the natives did.
We don't have that luxury of being beside the sea where I live, the seafood may have traveled some 24 hours in ice on the way to Manila, so it is hygienic for us to use vinegar at the minimum to disinfect sea food.
Even before I started eating raw paleo, much fresh sea food is traditionally eaten raw or just dipped in vinegar, especially if you lived by the sea. A good percentage of sea side living Filipinos I see have no qualms eating raw sea food as long as it is fresh right out of the water.
I would tend to think that in the paleo days, humans who lived by the sea usually ate their sea food raw because there is absolutely no need to cook them.