scallops

[ScubaNorth]

OK after reading quite a few post regarding scallops on the board I have to have more info. I found this blurb on a site selling Nantucket Bay Scallops.

Blurb: Weather permitting, F2M also offers Giant Live-in-the-Shell Sea Scallops. Intrepid S.C.U.B.A. divers work the coves and inlets of the New England coast where fishing boats fear to travel and harvest these nearly Frisbee-sized Live Sea scallops-in-the-shell. Prized by Oriental and European kitchens for centuries, their unparalleled flavor is startlingly delicious.

OK now is it just me or is there really frisbee sized scallops out there to be scooped up by S.C.U.B.A Divers. I've been in a few coves and inlets but no frisbee sized scallops have yet to appear. Of course if my frisbee scallop skills are like my lobster skills we're having chicken anyway.

 

[decapoddiver]

My buddy and I found some two years ago that were absolutely huge. The shells were 12-13" wide. To give perspective, my buddy could only fit 21 of them in his bag which can hold around 60-80 "normal" sized scallops. I have some shells somewhere that I will post. They were amazing but we have never found any even close ever again.

 

[ScubaNorth]

My buddy and I found some two years ago that were absolutely huge. The shells were 12-13" wide. To give perspective, my buddy could only fit 21 of them in his bag which can hold around 60-80 "normal" sized scallops. I have some shells somewhere that I will post. They were amazing but we have never found any even close ever again.

Were they startlingly delicious? I just have never heard of scallops that large being taken by a diver. I had read that some of the oil rigs have them as big as dinner plates because they are not harvested. The problem is that now I don't just want to go scallop diving now it has to be frisbee sized scallop diving.

 

[decapoddiver]

Well, once we found a knife big enough to actually open them up they were great. The meats needed to be cut into quarters in order to cook them. They tasted the same as the normal ones. The roe sacks were HUGE.

Good luck finding them. You aren't going to do much scalloping if they have to be frisbee sized

 

[MSilvia]

He can go with me. I'll keep all the normal sized ones, and he can have all the frisbees.

 

[paulthenurse]

The problem is that now I don't just want to go scallop diving now it has to be frisbee sized scallop diving.

I felt the same way about sex when I was 17 and Cheryl Teigs was in the SI Swimsuit Edition in that white bathing suit. Led to a little dry patch there for a while. You'll get over it...

 

[ScubaNorth]

I felt the same way about sex when I was 17 and Cheryl Teigs was in the SI Swimsuit Edition in that white bathing suit. Led to a little dry patch there for a while. You'll get over it...

If I find any I'll let you have the shells to make a mermaid costume for Ms.Teigs. Maybe that will cover at least as much as that swimsuit did.

 

[ScubaNorth]

He can go with me. I'll keep all the normal sized ones, and he can have all the frisbees.

I played that game when I was younger I got all the normal size ones and my wingman got all the big ones.

 

[paulthenurse]

If I find any I'll let you have the shells to make a mermaid costume for Ms.Teigs. Maybe that will cover at least as much as that swimsuit did.

Why, in the name of God, would we want to do that?

 

[ScubaNorth]

Why, in the name of God, would we want to do that?

Good point!!!