We'll need forty-five lemons and a truck full of mayonnaise....
A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday.
The squid, weighing an estimated 990 lbs and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said....
"I can assure you that this is going to draw phenomenal interest. It is truly amazing," said Dr. Steve O'Shea, a squid expert at the Auckland University of Technology. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires, he added. (Full article)
[Story caught by Anne]
Oh god, I could eat that entire thing in ten minutes. Heaven.
Posted by: Angus Whines | February 27, 2007 at 02:00 PM
The underside of that beast that is being shown in the above photo is painfully pornographic.
Posted by: The Guilty Carnivore | February 27, 2007 at 07:31 PM