Snow crab sells for record-breaking $46,000 in Japan.

CNN Travel ^ | 11/08/2019 | Lilit Marcus and Yoko Wakatsuki

[PIF]

Junk seafood.

[Liz]

It's all pubic relations---to get the name of a restaurant out there. Same for the million dollar tuna purchases.

Snow crab sushi roll---topped with avocado and ginger salsa.

[Hot Tabasco]

According to the organizers, auction attendees were surprised by the price as well, with many shouting "banzai"

Is that Japanese for "Yowza!" or "Geronimo!"?

[Fightin Whitey]

What will they take for a Dungeness crab?

No doubt less than they'd take for a dumbass crab.

[Jim Noble]

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

It’s the only way to be sure.

[EEGator]

[Carriage Hill]

Although I’ve never eaten sushi - and wouldn’t - they also spend huge money on some of those menu items. Mind boggling.

[Carriage Hill]

LOL! Sounds like my ex-wife.

[Carriage Hill]

I like Fish & Chips, w/ Malt Vinegar.

[BuffaloJack]

“I love crab, but when you flip them over, they look like those creatures on the crewman’s face, in “Alien”.”

It gets better. The alien monster was inspired by an actual creature dredged up from the ocean floor at some very deep depth (substantially smaller than the movie critter, but same head shape, body and fangs).

[bgill]

A fool and his money.

[Carriage Hill]

Looks like crab to me:

[MayflowerMadam]

Why so much $$? I don’t get it.

[Carriage Hill]

I don’t either; it’s only 2.7lbs. On that CATV Discovery show, “Deadly Catch”, they get much larger snow & king crabs than that.

[sheana]

I like crab. And no, it doesn’t taste like tuna. Lol. But crab is a lot of work for just a little meat so I usually pass on it. I prefer a lobster with a big tail.

[SgtHooper]

No need for hot sauce on that sucker!

[Yardstick]

Oh man, a face only a mother could love.

What’s crazy is how that thing is basically a scaled up version of the “doodle bugs” we’d sometimes play with as kids. Those little guys were maybe a quarter inch long but if you put them under a microscope they’d look just like that.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

That is exactly what they are. Cousins of rolly poly/doodle bugs. Very very old form of life. Way way older than dinosaurs. Did you know doodle bugs have gills that breathe air but need to stay moist to work? It is why they live in very moist places.

[Carriage Hill]

I eat ‘em with mustard!

[Yardstick]

Yep, apparently a very good design to have stuck around for so long. That is interesting about the doodle bug gills — you do always find them in moist areas.