Tasty tentacles? Succulent suckers?

June 21, 2007 4:46 PM

Do people eat nautiluses?

People eat squid, octopus, and cuttlefish. Is the nautilus the only marine cephalopod mollusk that nobody eats?

posted by aubilenon to Food & Drink (8 answers total)

They eat them in the Philippines, according to this, and use chicken as bait. A couple of other links, like this, also mention in passing that they're eaten, but it seems like the main allure is the shell, not the meat.
posted by infinitywaltz at 4:58 PM on June 21, 2007

Is the nautilus the only marine cephalopod mollusk that nobody eats?

You mention squid ... but there are many specific species of marine cephalopod mollusks that no one eats. Giant Squid, for instance.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 5:11 PM on June 21, 2007

Yes
posted by nanojath at 6:14 PM on June 21, 2007

I suspect that the answer to, 'Do people eat X?', if X is available and not very poisonous, is always yes.
posted by eritain at 7:40 PM on June 21, 2007 [3 favorites]

Oh yeah. They're tasty.

I've seen *all* kinds of dried mollusc selling in Asian markets in Vancouver and in HK. The dried ones are typically used in soups to add a "seafoody" or "umami" or "fresh & rich" flavour to soups.
posted by porpoise at 11:19 PM on June 21, 2007

Continuing the recursion
How could you eat something so cute?
posted by cephalopodcast at 3:53 AM on June 22, 2007

Cephalopodcast!!!! I love it (the user name & the concept).

They are too cute (and smart) to eat, I agree.
posted by footnote at 6:35 AM on June 22, 2007

Nautilui?
posted by craven_morhead at 8:04 AM on June 22, 2007