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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: intouchwithinstinct on March 23, 2010, 08:39:01 am
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I hear eating raw eyeballs in some cultures is considered a delicacy. Such as the Eskimos. Does anyone know what kind of unique nutrients would be in them?
I am thinking of telling my butcher all buy the eyeballs of all her animals seeing as no one El's probably buys em so shed be happy to get a price for them. Is there any eyeballs from any animal that are dangerous to eat?
I was thinking of eating eyeballs from the fallowing animals Cow, Lamb, salmon, fish, is there anything I should be warned about?
Also I would love to hear about experiences from anyone El's on here who has eaten eyeballs.
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this isnt the james bond film
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I eat raw eyes of fish.
They are very good.
I usually do this with small fish that are fresh.
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Bronzini eye balls, yum :P sweet tasting!
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I hear eating raw eyeballs in some cultures is considered a delicacy. Such as the Eskimos. Does anyone know what kind of unique nutrients would be in them?
Vitamin A, I believe.
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My family is from Italy and Greece... the ones that immigrated here eat everything!, while the american-born are grossed out. I clearly remember eyeballs (squid) being eaten.
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When I've got an opportunity to eat the eyeballs I eat them.
They've got a lot of lutein.
The lamb ones are really tasty -
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WOW!
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Thank you for that beautifull and taste looking picture Hannabil!!
I will start of with lamb ones and salmon ones then, My butcher will probably be able to to lamb and I have a Friend who's sold me wild caught salmon heads at the seafood market for a few weeks now I just haven't been eating the eyes.
So Lutein and vitamin A, all do a bit of research see if I can find anything El's interesting in there.
I'd definitely eat up some squid eyeballs too why not you only live once.
Next step after this, Bull Testicles!! ;D
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WOW!
WOW!
I would like to see more members posting pictures freely but I am afraid this could be too anti-vegeterian ?
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When I've got an opportunity to eat the eyeballs I eat them.
They've got a lot of lutein.
The lamb ones are really tasty -
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Is that sold anywhere at all these days in the USA? Have any of you seen it sold? While traveling I saw an old man buying raw sheep-heads (with eyeballs) from the meat section in a Supermarket. He told me his grandchildren love it. I want that so much. I heard face meat is sweet too. Is it difficult to acquire legally in the USA?
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Several lamb eyeballs -
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WOW!
I would like to see more members posting pictures freely but I am afraid this could be too anti-vegeterian ?
Then to balance things, post pictures of the raw fruits and raw vegetables you eat as well.
It will show we are omnivores.
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so what do they taste like? texture? to chew or bolt?
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Is that sold anywhere at all these days in the USA? Have any of you seen it sold? While traveling I saw an old man buying raw sheep-heads (with eyeballs) from the meat section in a Supermarket. He told me his grandchildren love it. I want that so much. I heard face meat is sweet too. Is it difficult to acquire legally in the USA?
In Canada, I've bought lamb and goat heads that look like this, directly from farms. If you order a whole goat or lamb, ask the farmer/butcher to save the head. One time, the butcher was kind enough to save the heads of all the animals he butchered that day, and I got 7 heads. I think that beef heads are illegal, though.
In my opinion, the brains and eyeballs are the best parts. There's also two small glands which have a strong taste, I'm not sure what they are.
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... There's also two small glands which have a strong taste, I'm not sure what they are.
Strong taste as in "bad" tasting? Pineal? Pituitary? Where exactly in the head are they?
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so what do they taste like? texture? to chew or bolt?
I'm not sure what's best. I chewed fish eyes. The have like a hard crunchy shell in them, then when burst, sweet liquid-like stuff squirts out like biting a cherry tomato.
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then when burst, sweet liquid-like stuff squirts out like biting a cherry tomato.
I would say it's ink-like liquid, which is quite toothsome.
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I had to look up what toothsome mean't!
It means tasty for the first language english people! ;D
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I would say it's ink-like liquid, which is quite toothsome.
Ink sounds good. There are no seeds in the eye, and it's not tangy like a tomato, but it is as sweet.
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Damn...
I've been eating raw meat and raw organs for a bit over a year now... but those pictures make me feel a bit funny...
Like it triggers something in me that says eating meat is wrong or something... I suppose I'm not used to being confronted with a chopped off skinned head of the animal with the eye ball looking up at me like that. I just get my meat nicely filleted in a bag.
It also looks like the animal is crying a tear of blood.
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Damn...
I've been eating raw meat and raw organs for a bit over a year now... but those pictures make me feel a bit funny...
Like it triggers something in me that says eating meat is wrong or something... I suppose I'm not used to being confronted with a chopped off skinned head of the animal with the eye ball looking up at me like that. I just get my meat nicely filleted in a bag.
It also looks like the animal is crying a tear of blood.
It's a cultural thing. It may not be common in your markets but it is common in my markets in my country.
We've got heads of goats and pigs in our everyday wet markets like that.
Buying a whole duck means the head is included.
Buying fish or shrimp includes the whole head.
Serving fish and shrimp you must serve the heads or else the customer will think the cooks and waiters ate the heads.
My mom always gave me the head of the milkfish because she said that was the most nutritious part. My kids are always asking for fish eyes (cooked though).
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My mom always gave me the head of the milkfish because she said that was the most nutritious part. My kids are always asking for fish eyes (cooked though).
That reminds me. I think we (children) ate salmon heads (pretty much raw) when I was a small child even though the plain flesh was available to us (kids) without all that oily mess, and my parents encouraged us to do as we liked/chose there. Funny, I had absolutely no memory of that ... yeah, but I think so. Our family had no dogs or cats then, so it was definitely us. I don't remember my parents eating the heads, only the plain flesh.
What's a milkfish? I've never eaten a cooked eye. What were eyes like cooked?
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Milkfish / Bangus. If salmon is the common farmed fish in Norway, Bangus is the common farmed fish in the Philippines.
I'm not into eating bangus since I went paleo, since this is not a paleo fish.
The taste of raw small fish eyes tastes pretty much the same as cooked bangus fish eyes.
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Cooked milkfish head "paksiw" style.
This is a home cooked meal.
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When I eat raw dulong, 1 cm small fish, I get to eat thousands of raw eyes! He he.
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I wish animal heads where so openly sold here!!
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Damn! I'm supposed to get big ol raw cow-eye-balls in the next week or two from my supplier. I had brain the other week, and it tasted like fresh raw crimini mushrooms and undercooked egg yolks, with the taste of flan. I do feel a bit smarter, too. ;) Maybe when if I start eating eyeballs every 2 or 3 weeks, I can reverse my near-sightedness faster. Wouldn't wear glasses anyway, plus they're a waste of money.
Goodsamaritan, what's the taste of those fish eyeballs? I once cooked up a whole fish at the WAPF's recommendation. But had no tasted for the cooked meat of those extra parts. Of course, after switching to raw 3 1/2 weeks ago, I've grown a taste for raw fish in it's entirety. But that day, I put a cooked eyeball in my mouth (snapper), and thought that it tasted oddly familiar. A good familiar, yet wierd familiar. What was that taste?
(I'll have to remember to start asking the guy who cleans my fish to save the eyeballs)
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cooked egg yolks, with the taste of flan. I do feel a bit smarter, too. ;) Maybe when if I start eating eyeballs every 2 or 3 weeks, I can reverse my near-sightedness faster. Wouldn't wear glasses anyway, plus they're a waste of money.
..., after switching to raw 3 1/2 weeks ago, I've grown a taste for raw fish in it's entirety. But that day, I put a cooked eyeball in my mouth (snapper), and thought that it tasted oddly familiar. A good familiar, yet wierd familiar. What was that taste?
(I'll have to remember to start asking the guy who cleans my fish to save the eye
If you do eat raw flesh, Ian, get the fish whole and uncleaned. That's how I do it when I want to eat eyes.
Flan tasted like a strange moulten plastic to me, if I remember correctly. That was coconut flan anyway, I didn't use eggs, or was it limble/limber or tembleque? Anyway, I can't imagine anything with cooked eggs, milk and sugar would compare to brains.
Do you eat pituitary too?
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I just found this thread today and wanted to add my experience with fish eyes. I haven't had eyes from animals other than various kinds of fish, squid and octopus. I'd like to try and I wonder if they taste similar or not at all.
There is a tiny fish here called cornalito that is around 6cm long (2 inches) and is eaten battered and fried instead of, or in addition to french fries. It's usually served with other meats that are battered or breaded and fried, such as thinly sliced beef, chicken, or squid rings. Battered and fried onion rings and breaded and fried mozarella cheese are also popular things that are served with them.
Cornalitos are traditionally eaten whole, with the head and everything. Lately (in the past 10-15 years) some people have began removing the head and the intestinal tract to make them less bitter, and I've heard some people say that it's the eyes that make it slightly bitter.
In any case, I haven't had those little fish raw because I couldn't find them fresh, only frozen. But I've had other, much larger whole fish. Such as bonito, which raw, for some reason, tastes a lot like canned tuna. Or another one called besugo which is similar to a red snapper. (I'll post a picture of the besugo, which is the first one I had whole, this one weighted 1.25kg (2.8lb) before de-scaling and was 6cm thick (2 inches). I took the picture before de-scaling it)
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So after having the skin, meat and some of the internal organs (which are super bitter), I tried the eyes. I was expecting them to be horribly bitter, but wanted to have them anyway for the nutritional value. Because fish don't have eyelids, it's really bizarre to be looking straight into it's eye as you're carefully carving with a knife and pulling it away with a fork to prevent popping it and making a mess. The psychological effect of doing that while planning to put it in my mouth and chewing was a bit hard to prepare for, but then I just didn't think about it and did it. It seems that we have a tendency to associate open eyes staring at us with something being alive and watching us (I hear the same works on birds, and that some scarecrows now are just a big eye). It can be hard to tell yourself that that's not the case and that the thing is dead.
To my surprise, it was the best tasting part of the fish by far. Like others here said, it's really sweet, almost like a raspberry. And even when the fish is not 100% fresh it still tastes good (just not as good). The fatty tissue that hangs around the eye socket after you remove the eye is also very tasty (some of it sticks to the eye as you pull it out). The rest of the fish heads I could not manage to eat, so I throw them away.
Eyes from squid and octopus are pretty good also, just not as sweet, and more chewy. And they don't have the same crunchy membrane that fish have (or it might be that the fish eyes I've had were much larger)
My eyesight has improved since I've been on this diet (3.5 months so far), but I can't say if it's due to consuming raw fish eyes or everything else. I haven't had much fish eyes by comparison to everything else that changed in my diet.