{"id":1656,"date":"2007-06-01T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T19:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2007-06-01T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T19:56:38","slug":"sea-pineapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Sea Pineapple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tasty morsel is nestled deep inside a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2007\/06\/sushi200706?currentPage=1\">Vanity Fair article<\/a> about Tokyo's Tsukigi fish market, the history of sushi in America, wasabi and the even the Rev. Sun Myung Moon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSheets of kombu (kelp) covered with herring roe; big white sacs of octopus roe. Among a biochromatic wealth of mysterious mollusks and other sea invertebrates of unknown nature, I see the weirdest creature I've ever seen. Now, that's a fucking organism. Tom Asakawa looks at it awhile, too.<\/p>\n<p>\"Sea pineapple,\" he says. \"Attaches to rocks in the ocean. Tastes something like iodine. Sendai people like it.\"<\/p>\n<p>It looks nothing like a pineapple. It looks like something that could exist only in a purely hallucinatory eco-system. It looks like, I don't know, maybe an otherworldly marital aid of inscrutable purpose for the brides of Satan.<\/p>\n<p>\"I need to eat that,\" I say.<\/p>\n<p>\"I'll see what I can do,\" Tom says.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though I couldn't stand to eat any of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok-cleek.com\/images\/jpn\/food_at_fuji.jpg\">the<\/a> <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ok-cleek.com\/images\/jpn\/dried_squid.jpg\">crazy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok-cleek.com\/images\/jpn\/baby_octo_soup.jpg\">stuff<\/a> they eat over there, I can't wait to go back to <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?cat=6\">Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tasty morsel is nestled deep inside a fascinating Vanity Fair article about Tokyo's Tsukigi fish market, the history of sushi in America, wasabi and the even the Rev. Sun Myung Moon: Sheets of kombu (kelp) covered with herring roe; big white sacs of octopus roe. Among a biochromatic wealth of mysterious mollusks and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}