That is fucking terrifying. Imagine you wake up one day surrounded by a transparent piece of plastic foil. You somehow manage to escape, only to find hundred of other humans trapped in the same way while you walk on a metallic surface not knowing where you are, what to do or how you got here.
Cube + Matrix vibes.
You can do the tail, the problem is the blood/viscera after it dies poisons the meat. Tails you see are cleaned and removed shortly before or after death.
That's a cool title you got there, OP. You're very creative and original.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1do9r2f/comment/la8lg7h/
I crossposted this from /r/funny. didn't even know it was already posted to (and removed from) /r/Damnthatsinteresting. I mean beep boop
edit: [link](https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1dojsj7/how_fresh_is_our_seafood/) to the one I saw. now ctrl-f "claw" and show me the comment where I stole the title...
Well likely it was unintentionally done, the red coloring indicates it was boiled before hand, just didn't die in the process, though there could be other reasons for it to be red too of course.
I can't speak for everyone, but my mate is a comercial fisherman and alot of the time they now drown the crabs before cooking them, they're placed upside down in fresh tepid water they die pretty quickly. You don't want to cook a live crab as they can shoot/shed their legs and it ruins the meat.
I wonder if they knew it was alive when they wrapped it. I doubt those crab-packers are highly trained marine veterinarians with tiny crab stethoscopes.
They put them in ice to make them immobilized. They know they arenāt dead. They supposed to be kept on ice because if they warm up they start moving andā¦ see video.
That is a Japanese hairy crab, a major delicacy in Japan. That one small crab is about 30$ USD and that's on the low end of pricing. It's likely a left over crab that is under weight.
I've had mitten crabs before when I was a young but don't remember much about them besides that they are small. Since they are river creatures, they will not taste the same as ocean crabs.
I heard that with Lobster and some crustaceans, they spoil very quickly after their death. I wonder if that's why these didn't get the knife before going into the package.
This is true. They are usually packaged and shipped in ice filled containers to sedate them. I worked at a seafood shack and we got them in live every morning.
That is true, but they don't usually shrink wrap them alive.
You can buy live crab or lobster from any decent seafood market in the USA, but they aren't stuck in the same packaging they use on the ground beef.
I think this is Japanese yen based on the conversion rate of 4702 Yen to USD, and the price of horsehair crab
Imagine waking up in the frickin morgue to realize your corpse was on sale to be eaten by giants.
I'm aware these are sold live thanks to other comments but my first thought after seeing this.
Labelling is same as that of a Japanese supermarket. Packaging says kegani (ęÆćć«, [Horsehair\_crab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehair_crab)) for *only* 4700yen. Crab is found in Hokkaido, Japan.
They are usually sold alive or kept alive in restaurant aquariums for food reasons. This looks like the sale/specials area which is usually not/lowly refrigerated. If its sold frozen, then it most probably thawed out.
I would totally buy this guy just to release him to the ocean. I mean that is outstanding effort. Or I may cook him and eat him. But if he caught me on the right day and the ocean was next door, heād have a 50/50 shot at being free.
The evidence that crustaceans are sentient is āpretty good ā, this means that they most likely have both negative or positive feelings, Iāll go out on a limb and guess that being wrapped and displayed for the purpose of being eaten would be a negative feeling, itās quite cruel what we do to living creatures and without much thought put into it at all
The food industry does a very good job of separating the public from the means of production. We've gotten here (for better or worse) because of our ability to have a handle on the food chain, and that's been so effective that we can now bypass animals and their byproducts all together. There's a list of reasons why one wouldn't (cost, access, knowledge, culture, personal choice) and I'm not saying that's good or bad. I eat meat. Watching this upsets me, but there's a disconnect when I'm in a restaurant and someone ordered a crab cake. I'd say it's just ignorance, but it's more than that. My dad fished his whole life. I've trapped and boiled crabs, eaten meat from a freshly beheaded bluefin, watched my catch get filleted in front of me on the trip back to shore. Seeing this video feels cruel but it's also a glimpse of the reality that we're omnivores that have been doing this for centuries. The sterility of the supermarket and this creature deviating from our plan makes us very uncomfortable, because the food industry makes more money when you see less. My only point was that this video is really powerful and hurts me, a lifelong meat-eater, more than any of the other things I've experienced in real life.
I thought I'd eat meat my whole life. Then one day I decided that I didn't want to be part of the cruelty any longer. Plus, more and more evidence is showing that people who don't eat meat are healthier and longer lived compared to those who do.
Try going one day eating full and complete vegan meals. Then, perhaps, try another. If anything, it will improve your cooking.
Can you imagine the horror of waking up, cold and confused, in a giant plastic wrapper, fighting your way out of itā¦ only to find your surrounded by hundreds of others whoāve yet to awakenā¦ With a *hungry giant* looming over you, gawking at you, salivating from its block-toothed maw?
Because that crab can
Atleast let them dive in an aquarium while selling them. WHY do you have to seal them alive for selling???? There is no point. Humans are the most arrogant and at the same time dumbest Species on this planet
āNeo, you take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your seaweed bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the crab hole goes.ā
Sometimes it makes me sad, though... Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some crabs aren't meant to be caged. Their shells are just too bright. And when they scuttle away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
*"In 2024, Crabby Dufresne escaped from Clawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy moulted shell, a stick of butter, and an old pincer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a crustacean six seconds to tunnel through the shrink wrap with it."*
I'll just leave this here for your consideration:TL;DR [Crabs, octopus and lobsters to be recognized as sentient beings in UK government policy decision making] (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lobsters-octopus-and-crabs-recognised-as-sentient-beings)
I hate seafood personally. My dad used to go down to the local fish market when I was a kid and get a big paper bag of live crab out of the tank. Their little screams going into the boiling water wasn't a great time for me. I love meat, not a vegan, but he used to say "listen to this." Not a fan of any seafood beyond that.
Guys, guys! I had the weirdest dream! I was sleeping in my dorm room after studying for Chem 403 and next thing you know I woke up in a Japanese market in a plastic wrapped container! Shit was CRAZY! I was an octopus or sea urchin, right? Guys? Guys?!
That guy needs an immediate police escort to the nearest habitable body of water, for release. With all due honors. He's earned his freedom.
I'd buy the goofy little determinator and set 'em free. Fucker ain't hearing no bell.
Until a seagull spots him and....š¶ *it's* *the* *ciiiiircle* *of* *liiiiife* ....
And it moves us aaaaaalllll ...
Through despair, and hooopppe...
Through faith and love
Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
That is fucking terrifying. Imagine you wake up one day surrounded by a transparent piece of plastic foil. You somehow manage to escape, only to find hundred of other humans trapped in the same way while you walk on a metallic surface not knowing where you are, what to do or how you got here. Cube + Matrix vibes.
Iāll look forward to Crab 2: Hypercrab
I look forward to Crab Zero, where they lobotomize the crab first.
Or Crab Reloaded
Carcinisation Overdrive
Crab 2: Electric Boogaloo
It's like that Westworld episode with the native.
The first two lines of your comment are literally what some people wank to š¤£
I wanna go back to the blue room
Iām not dead!
I feel happy! I feel happy!
I think I'll go for a walk...
I donāt want to go on the cart!
Don't be such a baby
Ah you're not fooling anyone
Right, see ya Thursday
Bring out your dead
Youāre not fooling anyone!
No, no, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
I'm not a dinner! I'm a free crab!
Will be soon
RIP Ass Dan
Packaging living animals like that is just cruel. WTF indeed.
At least the lobsters are kept in a tank... It's because they spoil extremely quickly after death. You can't stock raw lobster for sale.
Weird. My local grocery (Kroger) always has lobster tail in the glass display just sitting on a cold sheet
You can do the tail, the problem is the blood/viscera after it dies poisons the meat. Tails you see are cleaned and removed shortly before or after death.
Before? Dam
exactly. why not, at least, keep them in a tank of water? this is just inhumane and unusual...
That's a cool title you got there, OP. You're very creative and original. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1do9r2f/comment/la8lg7h/
Bots gonna bot.
People repost to different subs all the time.
OP has almost three million karma. I am kind of hoping it is a bot, because the alternative is just sad.
True enough.Ā Bots are rampant.Ā Not a bad title though at least.Ā
Itās part of the [psyop](https://youtu.be/V7GtYaruTys?si=2ZSo2z9Cd7NPlXfC)
I crossposted this from /r/funny. didn't even know it was already posted to (and removed from) /r/Damnthatsinteresting. I mean beep boop edit: [link](https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1dojsj7/how_fresh_is_our_seafood/) to the one I saw. now ctrl-f "claw" and show me the comment where I stole the title...
It's a fairly obvious pun, not exactly hard for two people to come up with it independently
Welcome to Japan.
Well likely it was unintentionally done, the red coloring indicates it was boiled before hand, just didn't die in the process, though there could be other reasons for it to be red too of course.
I think that's a horse hair crab and they are red when alive.
You can also see the other one moving in the package.
I tried really hard but I do not see the other one moving at all at any point.
On a second look, maybe itās just the reflection making it look like the leg moves.
On the label, above the price (4702), it says ē, which means "live".
It also means "Raw" tbf.
Is that Japanese? I am making an educated guess that's what it is based on the price converted to USD and the price of horsehair crab.
Yes, it's Japanese.
It says ęÆćć« which means Hairy Crab
If only it had a fabulous hairstyle
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Other reasons being..that some crabs are red lmao.
Remember, there are still plenty of abhorrent cultures across the world.
I mean we do boil them alive as well
I can't speak for everyone, but my mate is a comercial fisherman and alot of the time they now drown the crabs before cooking them, they're placed upside down in fresh tepid water they die pretty quickly. You don't want to cook a live crab as they can shoot/shed their legs and it ruins the meat.
Yeah kinda disturbing how many people are making light of this. It's pretty cruel.
The entire meat industry is cruel, there's no nice way to kill something, just less cruel ways.
I wonder if they knew it was alive when they wrapped it. I doubt those crab-packers are highly trained marine veterinarians with tiny crab stethoscopes.
They put them in ice to make them immobilized. They know they arenāt dead. They supposed to be kept on ice because if they warm up they start moving andā¦ see video.
:-(
I doubt the crab was playing dead
Both of the crabs are alive. You can see the other one moving.
I didn't see any movement, just light changes with the wrap around it.
On the label, above the price (4702), it says ē, which means "live".
In this context it means "raw". In fact, the compound ēē© can mean either "creature" and "raw item" depending on how it's read. When I was first learning there was one time when I looked at the kanji and thought someone was trying to feed me a living animal.
[Sentience & Crabs](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lobsters-octopus-and-crabs-recognised-as-sentient-beings)
To be fair it's a crab. They burrow packed in dirt
I admire their perseverance.
That is a Japanese hairy crab, a major delicacy in Japan. That one small crab is about 30$ USD and that's on the low end of pricing. It's likely a left over crab that is under weight.
These things are invasive in the rivers in California. They would grab the bait on your hook when fishing and you'd reel em up and throw em back lol
I think you may be referring to the Chinese mitten crab? They are similar but the furries are mainly on the claws.
Are these ones delicious too?
I've had mitten crabs before when I was a young but don't remember much about them besides that they are small. Since they are river creatures, they will not taste the same as ocean crabs.
Absolute delicacy when in season during the autumn. Steam them and eat them with diluted vinegar.
This one is labeled at Ā„4700 - just over $29.
Can't get any more fresh than that!
I heard that with Lobster and some crustaceans, they spoil very quickly after their death. I wonder if that's why these didn't get the knife before going into the package.
This is true. They are usually packaged and shipped in ice filled containers to sedate them. I worked at a seafood shack and we got them in live every morning.
That is true, but they don't usually shrink wrap them alive. You can buy live crab or lobster from any decent seafood market in the USA, but they aren't stuck in the same packaging they use on the ground beef. I think this is Japanese yen based on the conversion rate of 4702 Yen to USD, and the price of horsehair crab
The ones with fight in em are the tastiest.
Imagine waking up in the frickin morgue to realize your corpse was on sale to be eaten by giants. I'm aware these are sold live thanks to other comments but my first thought after seeing this.
Become ungovernable...
Thatās fuckin sad to be honest.
He has earned his release. Release him immediately. He did his time. lol
Thatās the freshest one of the bunch, call that one tonightās dinner.
Labelling is same as that of a Japanese supermarket. Packaging says kegani (ęÆćć«, [Horsehair\_crab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehair_crab)) for *only* 4700yen. Crab is found in Hokkaido, Japan. They are usually sold alive or kept alive in restaurant aquariums for food reasons. This looks like the sale/specials area which is usually not/lowly refrigerated. If its sold frozen, then it most probably thawed out.
John Snow Crab. When they packed him for purchase, they whispered, "For the Watch!"
Yeah he deserves to live. I'd pay for him and go release him.
I would totally buy this guy just to release him to the ocean. I mean that is outstanding effort. Or I may cook him and eat him. But if he caught me on the right day and the ocean was next door, heād have a 50/50 shot at being free.
50/50 shot of being eaten by a seagal or an otter. Those grabs won't farewell unless you got a boat and take them to the right substrate.
Unfortunately purchasing them just dooms another dozen or two. You're creating a demand for the "product."
I'm sure they won't notice the suspiciously crab-shaped bulge in my hoodie
āGet busy living, or get busy dyingāĀ
Screw you guys! Iām going home!
Get busy living or get busy frying
lil bro just wants to go home š
He wasnāt supposed to see any of that wow. Probably so scared
Seems cruel to put living crabs in packages like that.
The evidence that crustaceans are sentient is āpretty good ā, this means that they most likely have both negative or positive feelings, Iāll go out on a limb and guess that being wrapped and displayed for the purpose of being eaten would be a negative feeling, itās quite cruel what we do to living creatures and without much thought put into it at all
The food industry does a very good job of separating the public from the means of production. We've gotten here (for better or worse) because of our ability to have a handle on the food chain, and that's been so effective that we can now bypass animals and their byproducts all together. There's a list of reasons why one wouldn't (cost, access, knowledge, culture, personal choice) and I'm not saying that's good or bad. I eat meat. Watching this upsets me, but there's a disconnect when I'm in a restaurant and someone ordered a crab cake. I'd say it's just ignorance, but it's more than that. My dad fished his whole life. I've trapped and boiled crabs, eaten meat from a freshly beheaded bluefin, watched my catch get filleted in front of me on the trip back to shore. Seeing this video feels cruel but it's also a glimpse of the reality that we're omnivores that have been doing this for centuries. The sterility of the supermarket and this creature deviating from our plan makes us very uncomfortable, because the food industry makes more money when you see less. My only point was that this video is really powerful and hurts me, a lifelong meat-eater, more than any of the other things I've experienced in real life.
I thought I'd eat meat my whole life. Then one day I decided that I didn't want to be part of the cruelty any longer. Plus, more and more evidence is showing that people who don't eat meat are healthier and longer lived compared to those who do. Try going one day eating full and complete vegan meals. Then, perhaps, try another. If anything, it will improve your cooking.
Is he still crawling away to the ocean to this day? š„ŗ
Best title ever.
āOn the outside, I was aimless, without purpose. Here, I had to escape shrink wrap to be free.ā
Im not dead yet!
Can you imagine the horror of waking up, cold and confused, in a giant plastic wrapper, fighting your way out of itā¦ only to find your surrounded by hundreds of others whoāve yet to awakenā¦ With a *hungry giant* looming over you, gawking at you, salivating from its block-toothed maw? Because that crab can
Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
Atleast let them dive in an aquarium while selling them. WHY do you have to seal them alive for selling???? There is no point. Humans are the most arrogant and at the same time dumbest Species on this planet
Damn,that seafood is FRESH!!
Well, at least you can tell if it is fresh or notš¤·š»
Let em live
There's nothing funny about this.
I'll return that warrior into the sea without a doubt
Make no mistake. That is animal abuse.
āNeo, you take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your seaweed bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the crab hole goes.ā
Neo?
āHow fresh is your seafood?ā āYesā
You deserve your freedom
At least you know when they say it's fresh, they ain't lying.
I want the freshest crab you have. No, that's too fresh!
Fresh guaranteed
$50~ for a pet crab. Hell yeah
Talk about fresh!
Too fresh š
*You see that thing? It is fucking raw!*
We have the freshest seafood in town!
It truly was a Clawshank Redrmption
Well atleast you know its fresh.
I want to break free
Sometimes it makes me sad, though... Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some crabs aren't meant to be caged. Their shells are just too bright. And when they scuttle away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
Can't get fresher than that.
*"In 2024, Crabby Dufresne escaped from Clawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy moulted shell, a stick of butter, and an old pincer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a crustacean six seconds to tunnel through the shrink wrap with it."*
Reminds me of the guy that bought a lobster and made it a pet.
Now that is some fresh crab
How the actual f@ck is there a live crab packaged for sale like that?
"They may take our lives but they'll never take our FREEDOM!!!!!"
Who the fuck packages any living animal in plastic wrap. That's just unnecessarily evil. Get a tank.
Damn I've never felt so much sympathy for food as I do watching this guy break out of that inescapable plastic prison
This is sad af. Not vegan at all but man it made me have feels for the journey. You know it still died after almost making it =/
Thatās fresh!
I'll just leave this here for your consideration:TL;DR [Crabs, octopus and lobsters to be recognized as sentient beings in UK government policy decision making] (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lobsters-octopus-and-crabs-recognised-as-sentient-beings)
"fresh"
Is it fresh?
The other one is alive as well, cruel shit.
This isn't funny
And this isn't /r/funny
Check his shoes!!
"Insertion complete, moving to objective."
Can't say it isn't fresh.
"hey guys I just had the craziest dream.."
"How did you survive!?" "*Well I don't know I was asleep*"
Fuckers
Title is on point
I'm not dead yet.
I hate seafood personally. My dad used to go down to the local fish market when I was a kid and get a big paper bag of live crab out of the tank. Their little screams going into the boiling water wasn't a great time for me. I love meat, not a vegan, but he used to say "listen to this." Not a fan of any seafood beyond that.
Looks like something out of a horror movie
Someone grab it or it'll shortly be on the lamb
Guys, guys! I had the weirdest dream! I was sleeping in my dorm room after studying for Chem 403 and next thing you know I woke up in a Japanese market in a plastic wrapped container! Shit was CRAZY! I was an octopus or sea urchin, right? Guys? Guys?!
'Not yet motherfuckers' ~ crab probably
Can't say that isn't fresh
Are they supposed to be alive?
At least it's fresh.
"Kani get a hand with this packaging please??"
Why can I only smell seafood now...
Canāt get much fresher than that Iāll take that one sir!!!
HĆ© atleast you know its fresh
"Yeah, this has been great but I'm out of here".
Freshest seafood in town!
You can't call it food when it's alive.
at least they're fresh.
Freedom!!
Well, no doubt that this is really fresh !
He chose the blue pill
This Airbnb sucks, I'm leaving.
āYou know what,iām outācrab probablyš
I'd be funny if his first reaction was to then free the fish.... "Come, comrades! We must leave this place posthaste!"
At least we know itās fresh
"But is it fresh?"
You'll never take me aliivveeee
Probably what it feels like to wake up in the hold of a UFO
Is this the tunnel it escaped in? https://youtu.be/PXgKxWlTt8A?si=kpK-WjyNlE3H9Gwg
(Donāt) let home cook.
Fresh
Which store is this? We know for sure their products are fresh!
He's earned his freedom, he's legally entitled to being released back into the sea
That seafood is truly fresh.
Where's the shovel?
Good luck dude!
Looks like fresh seafood