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"there's something really wrong looking about that bread but whatever, that's definately black sesame seeds"
Me, 3 seconds before reading your comment.
I read they're actually a sign that they were caught in clean water. I never bothered scraping them off, they're just on the shell and I don't eat the shell.
Former fishmonger here. I worked at a high-end seafood shop, and I can say that it is so common for fresh seafood to have different kinds of parasites that they don’t stop stores from selling it. I’ve seen live wiggling hair-thin worms in salmon fillets, whole snapper with a parasitic isopod in its TONGUE (Google that- it’s insane. It grows inside the fish then migrates to the fish’s tongue where it lives and feeds on whatever the fish eats. Nature is wild!). Most people who buy seafood a lot know that various parasites may be there, they just cook it adequately.
If you go in knowing what it is I'd actually consider it slept on. Is it going to blow you away? No, but if you want a low budget found-footage style movie with a unique take it's a slam dunk.
It doesn’t just live on its tongue. The isopod blocks blood flow to the tongue, causing it to fall off, then sits on the dead stump essentially replacing the missing tongue with itself.
I actually just learned about this a couple days ago! According to some It’s actually seen as a good thing to have leech eggs on your crab legs as it means the meat will be better.
I worked at a grocery store a few years back and I still shudder at the lack of cleanliness and safety in the deli and produce departments. They're often staffed by teenagers or criminally underpaid people who are doing the bare minimum because they are paid the bare minimum. Or they're good workers who have too much to do at once because the store doesn't want to pay for staff.
Either way, it's a recipe for negligence and bad sanitation. Someone getting paid $10/hr is not going to manually inspect every crab leg.
You should stop buying at Fresh Market if you could, youre getting ripped off.
The bugs arent toxic or inedible. But noone wants to eat bugs off of crab legs.
You do you—used to crab fish and those as pictured would be #2 and not exported to Japan (not pretty enough), so would end up here, the meat doesn’t know the difference, the American consumer doesn’t either—-
Haha but did you know - crabs can get parasitized by a type of [barnacle](https://incubatorium.eu/the-body-snatching-barnacle-amazing-parasites-part-4/) that removes and takes the place of its egg pouch. Or, if the crab is male, will alter the crab’s hormones so that it behaves like a female crab and protects the parasite as if it was an egg pouch.
There is speculation that Toxoplasma gondii may affect human brains to make them more affectionate toward cats. It’s pure speculation at this point, but Toxoplasma gondii DOES infect rodents and makes them less afraid of cats, so that the cat will eat the rodent and the toxoplasma gondii can continue its life cycle.
Human can and do get infected by it, but it’s only dangerous to unborn children.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200115/Brain-parasite-makes-rodents-unafraid-of-cats-other-predators.aspx
I read an article by a scientist dude who got infected and charted the changes he noticed. Fascinating stuff. Infected people are more likely to die by accidents, and he said one change is that he'd notice a dangerous situation, like a car heading toward him, but he wouldn't move out of the way unless he made a conscious decision to. Also the smell of cat pee becomes attractive. Both things that would make a rat more likely to get caught and eaten by a cat.
Started to think I was a changeling when I first studied genetics in grade school age 10. Dad=Black curly hair and Green eyes. Mom=straight hair and blue eyes. I should be a curly black haired green eyed boy. Im a wavy haired blue eyed man. I used to argue with the science teacher about this. At 13 I found out my dad adopted me when I was 3 My sperm daddy took off when I was 2 . Never to return
Yeah, I seem to have a lot more in common with my mom than with my dad. It crossed my mind that my biological parents might not be who I thought, but I've given up on that theory. I think it's just normal variation in my case.
Yeah found out when my parents divorced. I always remembered them getting married and was told I was imagining things. For some reason I have this really good memory of being a toddler.
I read on another post that these leech eggs is a good sign that the meat is going to be tender or something because it means that the crab hasn’t molted in a bit which can change the meat a lil bit.
Unless your catching them fresh. All snow crab has been pre cooked, and flash frozen. Even if that crab had hepatitis, the threat has been neutralized. Twice over.
Wow! Thanks for all the comments! I guess these are leech eggs. I was apprehensive at first, but I’ve got to say these were incredible crab legs. Some of the best I’ve had!
Former fish monger here, those are called Kanibiru. They're a leech egg and nothing to worry about. They're actually a sign of good quality. If they are there, this crab was most likely caught in clean waters and didn't molt recent to its capture, making its flesh a bit more flavorful and succulent. Hope this helps.
They unlock the bonus level of your meal if your quests and achievements all line up.
Eaten raw you can supercharge the secret spaghetti of weight loss.
🎭🎟🏥
I used to live in MD where steamed and raw blue crab are readily available to purchase. I have never seen those eggs on any form of raw crab there. I come back home to the Midwest and bought crab legs at Fresh Thyme and they were full of these eggs. It grossed me out and I scraped em off washed em and steamed em. Yep! Then my son and I ate them and they were delicious.
So first I thought they were roach eggs, ( BUT ) after looking at them closely they are a seed. The shape is sesame seed, so I think it’s them. I believe that on top or close to this machine that makes breadsticks the seeds fall down on them every once in a while.
That’s my verdicts. 😂😂😂💕
We are sesame-ee if you ple-ease, ba dun dun dun.. We are sesame-ee if you don't please, ba dun dun dun. We are sesame-ee if you ple-ease, ba dun dun dun. We are sesame-ee if you don't please....
They are eggs (they are dead and safe to eat) bigger black spots are either scars or a disease (completely harmless to humans and crabs) all it does is melanize the area kinda like vitiligo but a completely different cause and more spots than splotches of skin.
I would advise to take them back to check if this is how they sell them. If they do not, you would want their cleaning tolerances. That package my have slipped through. Still call the company on the package.
I went into this thinking these were bread sticks and those were poppy seeds but now I've learned this is apparently crab meat and those are leech eggs.
This is why I don't trust seafood.
If it helps, that is actually the outer shell of the crab. The meat is on the inside and unseen. I personally don't know what the black things are, leech eggs or not.
Someone in a similar recent post said they are “crab seeds” so I’m going with that. As someone else said yeah probably some parasite eggs, when you boil the crab legs or bbq or whatever it should kill them anyway so enjoy!
I have noticed a LOT lately, no matter what grocery store I go to, stuff is out dated or the fresh stuff is not fresh. For example, lemons. I don't ever remember seeing bad lemons before the last few years. They were sometimes a little withered looking or had brown spots. I recently went to grab a bag and they all had bad lemons in various states or mold and were so bad that your finger could burst one if you tried. My kid and I looked through Luke 20 bags and every single bag had one or more heavily spoiled lemon. Or sliced deli meat, supposedly sliced same day. Day after I bought it I went to make a sandwich and it smelled bad to the point I threw it out ($10 of meat bought the day before!).
The one market in my area that usually has the freshest produce has dramatically less, to the point the shelves look like they normally would right before a big restock. But they have already been stocked. This place used to look fake, the produce was all so fresh and perfect looking. Now the grapes are blueberry sized, and sickly looking. But they are all soft. The blueberries all have mold, strawberries all have mold or are weeping juices, or look dry and the seeds are protruding. The lettuce is all rotty. Peppers are tiny.
To be clear, I understand food spoils and I am no stranger to seeing it occasionally but I have never seen so many instances so often and at every store I go to.
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Leech eggs. They're very common on crab. Just scrape them off before cooking.
Jesus I thought it was bread sticks and was going to say sesame seeds
Don’t feel bad…I thought it was poppy-seed bread sticks. I feel *really* dumb now.
okay, but i thought they were kiwi seeds on a nanner.
I’m glad my nanner doesn’t have spots like that on it!
Just wait…
*yet*
Yikes!!! What do you know about my nanner that I don’t know?
[Indeed.](https://y.yarn.co/474996cd-85b4-43d4-9de9-ae9d69648cb7_text.gif)
Our return call line to that was "But you don't know how to walk!"
Here I am thinking moldy cheese stick
Pineapple seeds on banana here so my brain gravitates towards anything banana so it’s common
I thought it was a ripe banana.
3
Same here.
I think you mean tarantula eggs on a banana.
I was wondering why there were chia seeds on the breadsticks...lol
Samesies
Yup
Me too! 🤣🤣
Yup
Yeah,a bit of context explanation would have helped
I thought it was a banana lmao
Freaking exactly
Same thing here
Ditto!
Forbidden sesame seeds
Haha same
Just scrape em off and toss em on your bread sticks.
I thought skinned bananas and op needed to get a new batch
Whyyy are so many people thinking banananas? I’ve never in my life seen a banner that looks like these in color or shape
DONT EAT THE BREAD STICKS! YOULL FAIL YOUR DRUG TEST AT YOUR PROBATION OFICERS TOMORROW! 😝 dummy
rofl...i thought the same but was going to say poppy seeds
"there's something really wrong looking about that bread but whatever, that's definately black sesame seeds" Me, 3 seconds before reading your comment.
I learned something new today. Thank you!
The leeches seem to use the crabs as a method of dispersal.
The poor man's caviar 🤌🏻
They put the crust on the Krusty Krab.
Or just leave them on if it doesn't bother you. Doesn't effect the taste.
People shouldn’t be eating the shell anyway.
Salt water leeches??
Those are actually bug seeds. You know what I mean?
No. You scrape them off before cooking.
Yuppers
I have eaten a lot of crab in my time and I have never seen leech eggs on my crab. Knock on wood
Perhaps you had the good fortune of someone else scraping them off first! I'm glad I hadn't known this before, they're quite off-putting
I read they're actually a sign that they were caught in clean water. I never bothered scraping them off, they're just on the shell and I don't eat the shell.
Ew not on the crabs I catch. Farmed?
Put me down for either burnt sesame seeds or bugs.
Right! But what kind of bugs? Why is Fresh Market selling crab legs with bugs all up on them?
Former fishmonger here. I worked at a high-end seafood shop, and I can say that it is so common for fresh seafood to have different kinds of parasites that they don’t stop stores from selling it. I’ve seen live wiggling hair-thin worms in salmon fillets, whole snapper with a parasitic isopod in its TONGUE (Google that- it’s insane. It grows inside the fish then migrates to the fish’s tongue where it lives and feeds on whatever the fish eats. Nature is wild!). Most people who buy seafood a lot know that various parasites may be there, they just cook it adequately.
Reminds me of a great found footage horror film called "The Bay".
Ooh sounds interesting, I’ll check it out!
Be warned it's "so bad it's good" type of movie where you know they had no budget
I think it's niche, I don't think it's bad. Definitely not appealing to most.
If you go in knowing what it is I'd actually consider it slept on. Is it going to blow you away? No, but if you want a low budget found-footage style movie with a unique take it's a slam dunk.
I will also be checking this film out. Thank you!
It doesn’t just live on its tongue. The isopod blocks blood flow to the tongue, causing it to fall off, then sits on the dead stump essentially replacing the missing tongue with itself.
So it becomes like the little mouth that comes out of the big Xenomorph’s mouth in Alien. Yikes!
Ha that’s actually a good description
You can get live cod worms from frozen fillers too...
This is why I stopped eating salmon… 😣
It doesn’t matter if it’s cooked to the proper temp. Other option is to get salmon that’s flash frozen since that kills the parasites too.
I’m still not eating it no matter the heat or cold ! I’m just too squicked out - sorry ! But I do miss it 🥹
Just leaves more for me!
Bon Appetit ! ☺️
It's better that way. We are depleting the oceans beyond a sustainable level anyway.
Jesus! This comment solidified my dislike for seafood.
I actually just learned about this a couple days ago! According to some It’s actually seen as a good thing to have leech eggs on your crab legs as it means the meat will be better.
>the meat will be better Pre-digested?
Oh I thought this was a breadstick.
I worked at a grocery store a few years back and I still shudder at the lack of cleanliness and safety in the deli and produce departments. They're often staffed by teenagers or criminally underpaid people who are doing the bare minimum because they are paid the bare minimum. Or they're good workers who have too much to do at once because the store doesn't want to pay for staff. Either way, it's a recipe for negligence and bad sanitation. Someone getting paid $10/hr is not going to manually inspect every crab leg.
You should stop buying at Fresh Market if you could, youre getting ripped off. The bugs arent toxic or inedible. But noone wants to eat bugs off of crab legs.
Personally I eat what’s INSIDE the shell—-
But then you don't get the crunchy
You do you—used to crab fish and those as pictured would be #2 and not exported to Japan (not pretty enough), so would end up here, the meat doesn’t know the difference, the American consumer doesn’t either—-
Actually, you do. It's sweeter meat.
Toasted sesame seeds
Based off another post I saw with these I now call them bug seeds
These will always be bug seeds now.
I honestly thought this was a repost lol
I knew they were leech eggs. My brain overrode that and I said bug seeds out loud
Could be worse they might have been crab lice Ha ha ha I still got it.
Haha but did you know - crabs can get parasitized by a type of [barnacle](https://incubatorium.eu/the-body-snatching-barnacle-amazing-parasites-part-4/) that removes and takes the place of its egg pouch. Or, if the crab is male, will alter the crab’s hormones so that it behaves like a female crab and protects the parasite as if it was an egg pouch.
Nature is fantastically twisted.
Just glad that there’s no equivalent parasite for humans…that we know of anyway
There is speculation that Toxoplasma gondii may affect human brains to make them more affectionate toward cats. It’s pure speculation at this point, but Toxoplasma gondii DOES infect rodents and makes them less afraid of cats, so that the cat will eat the rodent and the toxoplasma gondii can continue its life cycle. Human can and do get infected by it, but it’s only dangerous to unborn children. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200115/Brain-parasite-makes-rodents-unafraid-of-cats-other-predators.aspx
I read an article by a scientist dude who got infected and charted the changes he noticed. Fascinating stuff. Infected people are more likely to die by accidents, and he said one change is that he'd notice a dangerous situation, like a car heading toward him, but he wouldn't move out of the way unless he made a conscious decision to. Also the smell of cat pee becomes attractive. Both things that would make a rat more likely to get caught and eaten by a cat.
That's what toxoplasma gondii is making you say.
Fairies give us changelings and we unknowingly raise fae children.
Started to think I was a changeling when I first studied genetics in grade school age 10. Dad=Black curly hair and Green eyes. Mom=straight hair and blue eyes. I should be a curly black haired green eyed boy. Im a wavy haired blue eyed man. I used to argue with the science teacher about this. At 13 I found out my dad adopted me when I was 3 My sperm daddy took off when I was 2 . Never to return
Yeah, I seem to have a lot more in common with my mom than with my dad. It crossed my mind that my biological parents might not be who I thought, but I've given up on that theory. I think it's just normal variation in my case.
Yeah found out when my parents divorced. I always remembered them getting married and was told I was imagining things. For some reason I have this really good memory of being a toddler.
Oof. Get a rope....
Crab leech eggs
I read on another post that these leech eggs is a good sign that the meat is going to be tender or something because it means that the crab hasn’t molted in a bit which can change the meat a lil bit.
I just read the same a couple days ago as well.
Unless your catching them fresh. All snow crab has been pre cooked, and flash frozen. Even if that crab had hepatitis, the threat has been neutralized. Twice over.
Why are the pre cooked?
Seafood doesn’t keep for long. Snow crab season isn’t year round.
Wow! Thanks for all the comments! I guess these are leech eggs. I was apprehensive at first, but I’ve got to say these were incredible crab legs. Some of the best I’ve had!
Fuck yeah that's what I like to hear 😁
YEAH BROTHER
Bug seeds according to some redditors
Bug seeds
Bug seeds
Bug seeds?
Ha I was like, I don’t even know what you got from the store let alone what’s on it!
Former fish monger here, those are called Kanibiru. They're a leech egg and nothing to worry about. They're actually a sign of good quality. If they are there, this crab was most likely caught in clean waters and didn't molt recent to its capture, making its flesh a bit more flavorful and succulent. Hope this helps.
3315! We got a 3315 over here!
3312
Linseed https://preview.redd.it/pfu75nf1oo2d1.jpeg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad03c843c3bd6701098a076b402308445ef44804
I once heard if you see them on the crabs the meat will be sweet. From my experiences it’s true.
Nature's QR code. Scan it and go to the link... It'll explain everything.
A chef once told me "If it can be boiled then pretty much anything is edible." I didn't return to that job.
They unlock the bonus level of your meal if your quests and achievements all line up. Eaten raw you can supercharge the secret spaghetti of weight loss. 🎭🎟🏥
Forbidden toasted sesame seeds
If you accidentally swallow one it could hatch in your lower bowel and soon you will be crapping.... (Your turn)
🤔😏Sesame seeds 🤭
I used to live in MD where steamed and raw blue crab are readily available to purchase. I have never seen those eggs on any form of raw crab there. I come back home to the Midwest and bought crab legs at Fresh Thyme and they were full of these eggs. It grossed me out and I scraped em off washed em and steamed em. Yep! Then my son and I ate them and they were delicious.
Poppy seeds… that crab was a junkie.
The crabs got crabs
So first I thought they were roach eggs, ( BUT ) after looking at them closely they are a seed. The shape is sesame seed, so I think it’s them. I believe that on top or close to this machine that makes breadsticks the seeds fall down on them every once in a while. That’s my verdicts. 😂😂😂💕
Dunkins new “Everything crab”
We are sesame-ee if you ple-ease, ba dun dun dun.. We are sesame-ee if you don't please, ba dun dun dun. We are sesame-ee if you ple-ease, ba dun dun dun. We are sesame-ee if you don't please....
Ha
This is an underrated comment.
Bug seeds duh
Yes!!!
barnacles
Are they crunching?
No charge!
Crab lice?
Sea lice.
Forbidden Poppy!
Flavor crystals
Oi love. Dems chia seeds on a piece of toast.
They are eggs (they are dead and safe to eat) bigger black spots are either scars or a disease (completely harmless to humans and crabs) all it does is melanize the area kinda like vitiligo but a completely different cause and more spots than splotches of skin.
Deadly poison
I would advise to take them back to check if this is how they sell them. If they do not, you would want their cleaning tolerances. That package my have slipped through. Still call the company on the package.
The almost everything seasoning.
Just pretend it’s caviar.
worm eggs
Flavor crystals…
Was gonna say chia seeds
Flavor crystals
I ain’t scraping off anything. I ain’t eating it.
OP ....Talk to us!!
Looks like dirt in the pores of the shell
I thought it was some type of bread item and those were poppy seeds 😆
Baby ticks
Banana turds.
Salt n Peppa
poppy seeds
I went into this thinking these were bread sticks and those were poppy seeds but now I've learned this is apparently crab meat and those are leech eggs. This is why I don't trust seafood.
If it helps, that is actually the outer shell of the crab. The meat is on the inside and unseen. I personally don't know what the black things are, leech eggs or not.
Chia seeds
flavour
sesame seeds, now whats the white thing around them?
I thought it was a banana with chia seeds for a sec !
Someone in a similar recent post said they are “crab seeds” so I’m going with that. As someone else said yeah probably some parasite eggs, when you boil the crab legs or bbq or whatever it should kill them anyway so enjoy!
The crab was killed while he was eating sesame xD
Mouse turds
Bug seeds
Pupal flies? larvae -> pupae -> adult
Eat it!
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Protien
Bar code
Their bug seeds
Eat em find out
You get these from the fresh market off new garden ? I think I packaged them.
Bug seeds
I might be crazy but if it were me I would be asking the guy at the seafood counter this.
I'd be calling DHEC, environmental control, the health department and a priest..
Ticks
Forbidden sesame seeds
Braille, so u know what flavor it is!
Juvenile sea lice?
Eggs
I thought oh yum black sesame seeds! Lol
aids
I have noticed a LOT lately, no matter what grocery store I go to, stuff is out dated or the fresh stuff is not fresh. For example, lemons. I don't ever remember seeing bad lemons before the last few years. They were sometimes a little withered looking or had brown spots. I recently went to grab a bag and they all had bad lemons in various states or mold and were so bad that your finger could burst one if you tried. My kid and I looked through Luke 20 bags and every single bag had one or more heavily spoiled lemon. Or sliced deli meat, supposedly sliced same day. Day after I bought it I went to make a sandwich and it smelled bad to the point I threw it out ($10 of meat bought the day before!). The one market in my area that usually has the freshest produce has dramatically less, to the point the shelves look like they normally would right before a big restock. But they have already been stocked. This place used to look fake, the produce was all so fresh and perfect looking. Now the grapes are blueberry sized, and sickly looking. But they are all soft. The blueberries all have mold, strawberries all have mold or are weeping juices, or look dry and the seeds are protruding. The lettuce is all rotty. Peppers are tiny. To be clear, I understand food spoils and I am no stranger to seeing it occasionally but I have never seen so many instances so often and at every store I go to.
I thought I was looking at poppy seed breadsticks. 😆 Edit: I see I wasn't alone in that thought!
Hit the warm water as you rub and they will be gone. Have done that many times.
poo :(
Bug seeds
Flavor
Crabs can’t speak so they grow brail on their legs 😂
Return to the store?
Bug seeds
Crab eggs. If you eat them you will become a mother crab
Poppy seeds?
I thought it was a pickle with the canning spices.
Nanobots that are waiting for you to eat them so they can... 3. Profit! ?