Would you eat elvers?

[purplepoppy]

Elvers are baby eels that have just returned to the rivers from the sea. They were once a common dish in parts of the UK particularly along the river Severn. The normal way to eat them in the UK was to fry them alive in an omelette. Eels here, once abundant are now endangered and protected but some elver poaching still occurs. As I understand it only a few American states have an elver fishery.

So it's a food that's dying out and most of us will never have the opportunity to try them.

I have eaten elvers

I would try them

I would not try them

[exitseven]

Yes, they are considered a delicacy. There is elvers in Maine and they get like a hundred dollars a pound for them. I suspect they they will soon be fished out of existence.
Sea Urchins became a delicacy. When I was a kid I could go out with just a mask and fins and fill up a bag with sea urchins. Now you couldn't find one to save your life.

[purplepoppy]

I can't remember seeing an urchin since I was a kid either

[exitseven]

They became a delicacy and everyone grabbed them off the bottom until they disappeared.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[jshm2]

Elvers like snails have no real taste. It's why they are cooked with aromatic sauces

French have snails. The Spanish and Welsh have elvers.

[Anonymous]

Fry them alive? Gah... I guess that's barely different from how lobster is cooked, but I don't need the torturous deaths of hundreds of baby eels on my conscious. No thank you.

[FreyaRed]

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I like smoked and fried eel but this looks like some Klingon food

[andreasderjuengere]

I would not mind trying them.

But a grown up eel - smoked - is a top delicacy to me... so I'd rather spare the kids and wait until they are adults.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

🤢 thank you but no thank you, I'll pass on that, endangered or not

[AviatorTom]

No thank you. I don't eat endangered creatures.

[zagor]

No.

That might be why my grandmother left the UK.

[snackthatsmilesback]

If it was legal, and they killed them before frying, I'd buy some. It might taste good yknow I do like snake.

[Lliam]

They don't look very tasty, but I'd try one if they weren't endangered.

[Staximus]

I eat eel sushi but this is a bit too much. If there was nothing to eat and the choice was that or starve, I would eat it

[ArtemisSilver]

It's one of those things I'd eat in a survival situation but otherwise cold I think I'll pass.

[monkeynutts]

It's cool, if they are endangered species, I would eat something that was common.

[Pudsmucker]

Why would I eat something to look so damn disgusting.

[watercolor_lions]

Love eel in my sushi. Would totally try!!!

[NathanDavis]

do they taste like chicken?

[SaoirseS]

I hear they taste almost as good as Bald Eagle.

[NathanDavis]

@SaoirseS oh lmao... I would not dare

[AngryCarl]

My God no! I could never eat Legolas.

[DavidRaul]

I was never a fan of seafood, so no

[Andres77]

Don’t eat babies!!!

[Zolly99999]

That looks sooo gross..

[douride2]

No thanks.

[CuriouslyCurioous12]

Looks grosss

[LavLavLuv]

I’ll pass😅😅