Eating a Tuna Eyeball - Neatorama

Jesse of Flee Alaksa likes to eat strange things. How strange? How about this: a tuna eyeball!

I was at the grocery store and I got the urge to eat something new. I looked around and I didn't really see much until I found a food that could look back. It was only a hundred yen, which is less than a buck, so I figured I'd give it a whirl. It had a sticker on it that said that it should be cooked, but I didn't really know how to cook it. I tried to find stuff online, but there aren't a lot of English webpages devoted to eating fish eyes, so I just decided to boil it.

If you're squeamish, this isn't for you: http://www.fleealaska.com/index.php?items=51 - via J-Walk Blog

Previously on Neatorama: 10 Weird Gourmet Foods

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.

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Tuna eyes are awesome, jsut some lemon and its good

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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.

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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.

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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. :\

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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VOMIT

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

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Steve, Don't Eat It!

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*urp* There goes my appetite...

--TwoDragons

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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)

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bleah ... heave ... barf.

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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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