June 22 2010
They’re Alive!
posted by Ana Samways at 9:10 amThese fish, which have been skinned, gutted and beheaded, are just about to be smothered in butter, wrapped in tin foil and baked, when all of a sudden…
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Edited by Ana Samways & Steven Shaw
June 23rd, 2010 at 9:13 am
That’s put me off fish, screw omega3 lol
June 23rd, 2010 at 9:52 am
I suppose it’s a little late to throw them back though…
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:30 am
maybe the foil stimulated nerves/reflexes or something?
The lady taking the vid was remarkably calm I reckon!!
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:35 am
Oooh! This happened to me once and no one believed me!
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:11 am
I would be calling an electrician to get the earth fixed on the bench
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:54 am
EEEWWWW and people wonder why I dont eat seafood!!
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:29 pm
they look more like eels then fish. all you need now is a video of someone winding up chickens before beheading them and watching them run around, (winding them up makes them do flips )
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Fish do move for some time after they are beheaded. Guess that’s how their nervous system is.
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Eeeeewwww… that is gross!! No fish for me anymore?!?
June 23rd, 2010 at 9:57 pm
I would have been screaming the house down. Flippin heck!
June 25th, 2010 at 4:13 am
I have seen flounders rustling around in a plastic bag after been out of the water for a little while lol
June 25th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
There is no mystery here – the lemon on the tinfoil created a small electric current. Which stimulated the nerves in the fish and you get the thrashing around.
Whack a zinc galvanised nail and an old copper coin into a lemon and touch your tongue to it – the tingle you feel is what happened to the fish fillets.
June 25th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
EEls! As Michael and Shashi commented, I guess the electrical stimulation from the lemon and aluminum foil too.
June 28th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
I had this happen with lobsters. I killed the lobster by plunging a knife it the head. I waited for the nervous system to stop and pulled the tail off. Well, the claws ejected themselves and started opening and shutting. I threw a kitchen towel on top and walked away. After it stopped, I cracked open the claws, which were not dislocated from the body, and took out the meat. The claw meat was twitching!! I put the kitchen towel and walked away again. Lesson learned. Boil the lobster first a bit. I’d rather have an over-done lobster than deal with that again!!
June 28th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
which were “now” dislocated, not “not”! Made no sense.
June 29th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
next time kill it dead…
i guess this would only happen to freshly caught seafood (actually, maybe any food that was once live).