Ever Wonder What You’re Eating?
One of the great food scavengers spits it out
A favorite food(for some)rejected. Seriously.
A couple of years ago, I decided to engage in a local fishing specialty known as lobstering. This was not on a commercial scale where hundreds of traps are set far off the coast in deep water.
Having a small boat and interested only in getting a taste of what lobster fishing is all about, I engaged strictly on a recreational level.
Two traps, that was it, and in shallow waters near shore.
It took some research to learn the ins and outs of lobstering. Equipment, licensing, bait types, and best locations to set traps were all part of the necessary homework required to get set up and running.
So off I went lobster fishing, setting two traps in about 30 feet of water with a rocky bottom.
Number one, I learned lobster fishing is a lot of work. Every couple of days, you needed to venture out, pull the traps, retrieve whatever was attracted to the bait, re-bait the traps, and then reset the traps. Lotta work…
Number two, I learned lobsters and the other creatures living in the deep would eat almost anything. That theory was proven as I routinely cleaned out my refrigerator and used whatever was going bad as bait.
It all went into the bait bag. Beef, pork, fish, chicken carcass, veggies, and even frozen chicken nuggets I had on hand for when the grandkids visited.
There wasn’t much that the creatures of the deep wouldn’t eat.
Except…the chicken nuggets.
You read that correctly. Everything but the chicken nuggets. Everything.
After three days in the water, I pulled the traps to find the nuggets untouched, still whole, in the bait bag. Everything else in the bag…gone.
From my entire summer of lobstering, the only bait ever left in the bait bag was the chicken nuggets.
One of the great food scavengers spits it out. Rejected.
It makes one wonder what we eat sometimes. For all the underwater creatures attracted to the bait in a lobster trap to reject that one food item, it would seem to be a statement of some sort.
All those hungry sea creatures flipped me the bird.
Lobsters, fish, crabs, snails, worms, etc., all rejected the chicken nuggets…
Anyhow…I felt pretty comfortable knowing that this guy had some selective eating habits.
Leftovers from the ‘refer’… all used to create a new meal.
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