Eating a Tuna Eyeball

1. Aramax
   January 6th, 2009 at 9:47 am

   My father told me tales of my great grandmother eating raw sheep eyes. I dont find this gross at all, it kinds look like squids and I just love the taste of squids.

   Baby squid salads are the best.

2. Peter
   January 6th, 2009 at 10:09 am

   Tuna eyes are awesome, jsut some lemon and its good

3. Evilbeagle
   January 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am

   I don't know that I think it's gross. I would probably try it, though I wouldn't go out of my way for it.

4. LisaL
   January 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

   Eating fish eyes, I don't find gross at all (although I'm surprised at how large that one is! Wow)... but the thought of eating the eyes from a mammal, grosses me out to no end.

5. Valdis von Squi
   January 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

   Seeing other people eating other parts of animals doesn't gross me out. But I don't eat anything out of the ordinary, just because I tend to start thinking about it too much, and that grosses me out. :\

6. Guybrush Threepwood
   January 6th, 2009 at 1:03 pm

   I have an uncle that literally SUCKS out fish eyeballs when eating them. It's gross - not because of the cooked eyeball that pops out directly to his mouth, but because his manners. And it sounds like a loud kiss, followed by a huge slurp.

7. Frau
   January 6th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

   I remember eating fish eyes in the Philippines. They were always panfried, till crispy.

8. Monkey_Town
   January 6th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

   I feel lonely being the only one who had an actual gag reflex reaction to this article.

9. SacredMeow
   January 6th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

   I'm happy I'm a vegetarian. Blech.

10. SydneyClaire
    January 6th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    My sister had a sheep's eyeball once..she said ummmm...it was a little difficult to chew, due to the texture.

11. Sankt
    January 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    let me describe it...had it a few times when i was a kid, growing up in southeast asia....

    it is definitely fatty in a fishy, smelly way. my mom used to cook it in strong vinegar and soy sauce. add in some onions and ginger (to keep the smell bearable). basically jello-like, some parts with fish meat still clinging to it and definitely very juicy.

    won't eat it now though. balut...now that's different.

12. Gail Pink
    January 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    VOMIT

13. Max Power
    January 6th, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    Monkey_Town, I'm with you, and the comments here made it even worse. :/

14. violet
    January 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    Steve, Don't Eat It!

15. TwoDragons
    January 6th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    *urp* There goes my appetite...

    --TwoDragons

16. spoonrabbit
    January 6th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    i LOVE fish eyeballs, cooked of course. it's the best part. you guys dunno what you're missing out on!

    next time try steaming it with like, stuff like garlic and sauce.

    now, mammal eyeballs... erm. and uncooked? that creeps me out.

17. Christophe
    January 6th, 2009 at 11:45 pm

    I tried to google a receipe but there nothing on the subject... If I want to try, I want to try the right way. Boiling it? Yuck.

18. Joan
    January 6th, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    I imagine it's pretty unappetizing boiled, but I think I saw it pan-seared on a cooking show before. That sounds more palatable. I imagine the meat around the eyes is pretty tender. I'm not sure I'd be up for nomming on the vitreous goop though...

19. Guybrush Threepwood
    January 7th, 2009 at 6:34 am

    Oh, and I just remembered one thing: some years ago here in Brazil, we had a tv show just like "Survivor".
    One of the contests was a "goat eyeball eating stravaganza"... the contestant which eats more eyeballs would be the winner.
    It looked very "hard", cause they seemed difficult to chew. And when they finally burst the eyeball, some gross black fluid (coagulated blood, i guess) squirt from their mouths.

    It was the most disgusting thing I´ve watched on tv (even more than Stephen King's Dreamcatcher)

20. Rocky Rook
    January 7th, 2009 at 10:34 am

    bleah ... heave ... barf.

21. amelia
    January 8th, 2009 at 8:20 am

    my sisters and I used to fight over who gets the eyes of the steamed fish. This one's huge though..

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