First you pound the fish flat with a mallet

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Is it a bad sign if my first reaction to the discovery of a new crustacean is "Aww . . ."* and my second is "I wonder if it's edible?"

*So fuzzily Lovecraftian! Also, the fact that there's a Polynesian goddess of crustaceans simply rocks.

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My father is given to occasional imitations of a Saturday Night Live sketch where John Belushi tries to sell the audience a contraption* into which one would put mink: the dual result being mink stoles and mink burgers. I'm now picturing a similar sort of production line with tribbles. Cute widdle fluffy coats!

(I don't think Gene Roddenberry would have liked me very much.)

*Which may or may not be called a Ronco Mink-o-Matic; I cannot swear that my father's not confusing it with Dan Aykroyd's Bass-o-Matic.