Something about the concept of a seafood boil is deeply offensive to me. I like all the individual components by themselves but chopping up and boiling a varied assortment of vaguely related miscellaneous foods all together and serving it out of a literal trough feels weirdly passive aggressive and degrading. Like an edible middle finger. "Here's your slop, piggy. Eat up."

I mean don't get me wrong I'm still gonna eat it, I'm not above it, I'm just gonna be a little upset about it while I do. Very hateful dish. Very, very disrespectful. Very undignified. Brings the mood down instantly. I can't think of a more offensive culinary gesture than a seafood boil.

what i don't get is why do they have to serve it in a plastic bags?

don't we have enough microplastics in our seabugs

>>21437215
The more microplastics you eat, the more money the government can save up to send to its greatest ally, Israel
Eat up piggy

>>21437166 (OP)
seems like it would be too much effort to eat

I don't get the whole dumping it from the table part. It's fine if you just grab a few pieces at the time from a bowl, tray or something and put it on a plate like a buffet style meal though.

>>21437215
>what i don't get is why do they have to serve it in a plastic bags?
they don't? Must be a form of takeout portioning, or the fact they set it on a scale and sell it by the pound and you take it to your car. Would you want spillage? Nope.

OP, cooking seafood whole that requires cracking is actually rich people activity. Clams, lobsters, this is luxurious eatin' with high dollar pricetags. When it comes to crab boils, it's was originally sausages added which in turn flavored the boiling liquid, and then those are in turn going into the baby new potatoes.
To me, the corn gets overly spicy, and I'd ignore it. But, when you add corn pieces to latin soup, the cob does contribute the flavor of the stock.

I'm considering doing one of these tomorrow to see what all the fuss is about. Using this recipe, because regional straya. And no way I'm putting fucking mushrooms.
It's about 30 bucks for the prawns because I'm too lazy to peel and de vein them myself.

Worth a shot?

>>21437353
Clams are usually pretty cheap. Which is nice because they're my favorites

>chopping up
You don't. Even the picture you chose to post shows that, you fucking retard.
>>21437353
>Clams, lobsters, this is luxurious eatin'
How poor are you that you think $8/lb for live lobster (sometimes as low as $6/lb!) or $2/lb for live clams/mussels (sometimes even as low as $1.50/lb!) is expensive?
What sort of dirt-poor life do you lead? Jesus, anytime I think I'm poor, someone on this site says something like "oh, if your family had two TVs growing up, you were rich" or "clams are luxury food" or "the family from [literally any show that isn't Roseanne or Shameless] were super rich! Look at that house!" Your poverty is equal measures disgusting and amusing. Tell me more.

>>21437393
These are 1970s prices, grandpa. I bet you don't enjoy your poverty tier class, when you buy your cheapest item on the menu, $25 lobster roll.

>>21437393
>Even the picture you chose to post shows that, you fucking retard.
You see that corn? Chopped up. Corn cobs are naturally much longer than that and tapered near the ends. See the crab? See how it's now whole entire intact crabs? Kill yourself.

>>21437407
>1970s prices
Fucking where? Lobster is literally $8/lb at ShopRite right now lmao
>>21437445
>sliced in half is chopped up
lol
Do you prefer your peanut butter and jelly chopped up diagonally or vertically? lmao

>>21437452
>semantics
Please point to where you see an entire half of a corn cob in that photo. Where do you see an end of a cob? Commit suicide immediately. Would you like a detailed set of instructions guiding through the process of ending of your life?

>>21437458
Don't be so antisemantic, bigot.

>>21437393
>>21437452
the potatoes are definitely chopped. the corn is chopped. the crabs are chopped. they're not finely minced but they're chopped.

>>21437462
No.

>>21437467
ok yeah you gotta kys

>>21437480
>>21437467

>>21437481
the sausage is also clearly chopped. not cut in half, not whole. chopped. cry about it and then kys

>>21437353
>they don't?
They absolutely do. Each order is by the 1lb and full customizable see picrel.
They absolutely just throw anything you add or change from the basic premade orders, into your bag, zip tie it, and boil it. It is then brought out to your table STILL IN THE BAG, carried in a shucking bucket, similar to the ice buckets with 5-6 beers some bars offer. The server rips out of section of a giant roll of wax paper (like how black people use newspaper) and you get a plastic bib the thickness of a grocery bag
I used to love it. I don't know why it never registered to me it's cooked in plastic.
You bring blatantly wrong and saying 'its not' when it very much obviously is, and pulling a list of possible excuses out your ass is laughably retarded. Don't talk about things you know nothing about you stupid fag

>>21437817
forgot picrel

>>21437486
>>21437467

>>21437166 (OP)
It comes from poorer than dirt blacks who really had no other option than to toss a bunch of seabugs in a pot and hope for the best. Cooking everything individually would take too much time and equipment they didn't have.
So naturally busiensses realized they can upcharge the shit out of it.

>>21437819
>comic book fonts
yikes

>>21437820
>>21437480

>>21437371
Why'd you cross out the handful of semen? That's the most important part of a good boil.

>>21437166 (OP)
Never understood this. Just boil it all together.

>>21437953
>>21437819

>>21438012
>>21438406

>>21437166 (OP)
>>21437215
>have tradition
>it gets modified for the goycattle
>suddenly people start complaining about it without ever having tried the original
>or even knowing about it

>>21438223
>>21438239

>>21437166 (OP)
look at this and tell me you don't like it. i fucking dare you

>>21438257

>>21437166 (OP)
Imagine the microplastics of seafood AND plastic bag cooking

>>21438263
>food comes on plastic bags
>:0
>food is cooked in a plastic bag
>:|

really makes you think

>>21438257
I don't like jarred minced garlic. Why not just buy a jar of peeled cloves rather than that preservative laden stuff? It tastes like shit.

>>21437307
Get off the internet for a day please. Give yourself a break man

>>21438263
>oooh but oooooooh the microplastics! what about the microplastics!!!
pussy. I've moved on to macroplastics. I eat Saran Wrap as a snack. Get on my level

>>21438263
Microplastics is code for vaccine. They literally just made it up to hide deaths.

forced meme

>>21437166 (OP)
>zogboiled slopbags

>>21438287
Thy will be done, rabbi

>>21438263
Mmm, Western pagpag. It's nice to see Pinoy cuisine becoming more accepted.

If microplastics in the body are as big as advertised it’s probably already too late. Until I’m pooping rubber bands I’ll just assume it’s been this way for decades and it’s just being discovered.

>>21437166 (OP)
Dude, has anyone ever told you that you write with Trump cadence in your speech.

Either that or my mind just read it that way. But fucking look at your wording. Perfectly Trumpish.

Like if this was a Trump tweet, I wouldn't be surprised.

>>21437166 (OP)
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>>21437166 (OP)
seafood boil is acceptable if its crawfish+corn+potatoes+sausage

anything else like OP is an abomination

>>21437166 (OP)
I mean it is a trashy low class meal created and consumed by a certain group of people from certain places typically with a certain income level so......

>>21437371
Alright fuck it. Let's go.

>>21441080
Let this shit do its thing while I watch Die Hard 3.

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>>21439534
I think it's the "Very, very disrespectful." Reminds me of the "nipples protruding before congress" tweet.