Can you eat mermaids

DezB Full Member. What would you do with the top half? Trimix Free Member. She might taste a bit fishy. I mean, when else would you get a chance to try one totally guilt free? So for me, it depends on how one acquires said mythological fish-lady. You cruel beasts. I ate a nice tail fillet with some parsley sauce and a nice linguini, th,th,th,th. Pigface Free Member. Torminalis Free Member. Free range may be more acceptable than farmed. You want to be more wary of the mermaid eating you!

Not since the BBC took down the recipe. CaptainFlashheart Free Member. So no mermaids. But if there were mermaids, do you think they would be good to eat? Or would that cross a line?

David, art critic: Would I eat a mermaid? As sushi. Just the fishy part or the human part as well? Just the fishy part. What dressing would you pair it with? Like a nice vinaigrette. You know, over mixed greens. Oh, no!

Why not? I don't eat anything with a face! Definitely not something that's half-human. We use our arms and weapons to kill and capture. Seals have smaller mouths than most aquatic mammals, and they often eat crustaceans along with fish, octopuses, shrimp, and related food. Mermaids are not quite as sea-worthy as seals, whose bodies are much better suited to swimming up on their prey.

But mermaids have arms, so they could harvest plant life and capture crustaceans. If mermaid nutrition works anything like human nutrition does, we can say that mermaids have a lot of healthy options. Seaweed and certain algae are known for being packed with healthy fats like Omega-3 DHA , vitamins, minerals, and protein.

Spirulina in particular is a good candidate for mermaids. It grows easily, and many human populations have relied on it as a food source. Mesoamerican cultures, including the Aztecs, harvested it up until Spanish colonization in the 16th century.

Seaweed and algae could be gathered easily, and if mermaids used ecologically sound practices that human hunters and gatherers used, the resources are highly renewable with little cultivating.

Of course, this complicates the matter of mermaid breath, but that might be why they are usually seen from afar. Another possible source of food for mermaids are crustaceans.

Every child who has played in a creek knows that catching crustaceans by hand is fairly easy. Crustaceans have no carbohydrates, but they have a lot of protein and some fat, along with vitamins and minerals.

Combined with plant life, the mermaid diet does seem to match up with many of the healthiest human populations on the planet. The question then arises: why does it matter what mermaids eat? Any cryptozoologist worth their Sasquatch tattoo can tell you: if you know what a cryptid eats, you know where to look for them. Beyond the sheer love of thinking seriously about paranormal creatures, mermaid eating habits could give us a lead on where to find mermaids.

If they eat a lot of seaweed and algae, we know that they will frequent areas that have lots of these plants. You can narrow down the search with reported sightings, and then focus on the places near those sightings where mermaid food exists in abundance.