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Not Running => Food => Topic started by: Natasha on February 27, 2013, 02:34:04 PM

Title: Seaweed
Post by: Natasha on February 27, 2013, 02:34:04 PM
I got these at Costco, and I swear, I cannot stop eating them.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511kuJFR8ZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

One package is supposed to have 5 servings, and I plow through them all.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Eco Ellen on February 27, 2013, 03:07:27 PM
What is it?
Title: Seaweed
Post by: Tim on February 27, 2013, 03:12:12 PM
I have a seaweed intolerance so I have to use their sister product, I Can't Believe It's Not Seaweed.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Natasha on February 27, 2013, 03:28:39 PM
What is it?

 ??? Weed that grows in the sea?  :d

It looks like the type that they wrap sushi in, but in small squares.

I also would like to believe that it's good for you, but am worried that I'm ODing on the stuff.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Eco Ellen on February 27, 2013, 04:04:43 PM
??? Weed that grows in the sea?  :d

It looks like the type that they wrap sushi in, but in small squares.

I also would like to believe that it's good for you, but am worried that I'm ODing on the stuff.

Well, I mean...how is it prepared? Is it a meal, or a snack? Is it like pasta? Is it stringy? I have never had the stuff.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Run Amok on February 27, 2013, 04:20:09 PM
Well, I mean...how is it prepared? Is it a meal, or a snack? Is it like pasta? Is it stringy? I have never had the stuff.

It's a snack. Sort of like a cracker. You can eat it whole or crumble it over a salad or stirfry or whatever. It comes in a thin sheet and has been toasted so it's crispy and salted so it's salty.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: onawhim on February 27, 2013, 04:33:36 PM
I think you should try not to eat crazy amounts of it because the iodine can mess with your thyroid?  I love it too. 
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: witchypoo on February 27, 2013, 05:19:19 PM
I think you should try not to eat crazy amounts of it because the iodine can mess with your thyroid?  I love it too. 

i conveniently had mine destroyed.

all your snacky seaweed are belong to me.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: mango on February 27, 2013, 05:33:04 PM
It's a snack. Sort of like a cracker.
LOL, it's sold as a snack?

try eating it with rice, or making something like this:

(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSX7pt7h8IkbPTLL3xkhwHppT6BlZjjPC2fccU7ZyEQq1xip_DmvFHQOeLr)
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Run Amok on February 27, 2013, 05:40:33 PM
Well, annie chun says they have been a korean snack for CENTURIES. CENTURIES, she tells us!  :d

http://www.anniechun.com/our-food/seaweed (http://www.anniechun.com/our-food/seaweed)
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: mango on February 27, 2013, 06:08:38 PM
Well, annie chun says they have been a korean snack for CENTURIES. CENTURIES, she tells us!  :d

http://www.anniechun.com/our-food/seaweed (http://www.anniechun.com/our-food/seaweed)
nuh-uh, she said this:

Quote
Seaweed snacks have been a staple in the Korean diet for centuries but are now going to help revolutionize the way Americans snack.
a staple in the Korean diet =\= a Korean snack.  :P

you can of course eat it as a snack.
hell, you can eat it in any way you see fit (well, duh).

but trust me, it goes really well with steaming hot rice (fresh off the rice cooker).

Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Run Amok on February 27, 2013, 06:15:45 PM
No argument about that here!

I don't like the "korean seaweed snack" thing. They taste like salty iodine to me. Blech. I much prefer them served in traditional fashion. But... people seem to love these things and I have no problem with that, either.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Eco Ellen on February 27, 2013, 06:21:58 PM
i conveniently had mine destroyed.

all your snacky seaweed are belong to me.

Lol
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: diablita on February 27, 2013, 09:52:22 PM
my DH is eating a pack of TJ's version next to me as I type this.  he's hooked.  I like the wasabi flavored but we're out and I don't feel like driving to Greenville this week.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: all-smiles on February 27, 2013, 10:38:35 PM
I think they're foul but the triplets will destroy them like nobody's business! They love them and devour packs at a time when I buy them
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: radial on February 27, 2013, 11:06:09 PM
My BIL the algologist is a consultant to the Japanese seaweed industry.  Years ago he was attending a conference in DC and crashed with us.  I still remember the package of seaweed he pulled out at dinner one night.  It was like a little pad of Post-its, but the pages were sheets of pressed seaweed.  He told me that seaweed was the "next big thing," and I nodded politely.  All I could think of was that scene in The Graduate when somebody was telling Dustin Hoffman that the future was "plastics."  Yeah, right. 

BIL turned out to be right, much to my dismay.  Oh well, at least I invested in Xerox, Microsoft, and Apple when the getting was good. 
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: mango on February 28, 2013, 05:33:48 AM
it goes really well with steaming hot rice (fresh off the rice cooker).
like this:

(http://cfile204.uf.daum.net/image/162CF4104CD03702224D65)
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: diablita on February 28, 2013, 08:43:53 AM
yum!
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Natasha on February 28, 2013, 12:06:33 PM
Mmmmmm. That's what's for dinner.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Eco Ellen on February 28, 2013, 12:15:49 PM
like this:

(http://cfile204.uf.daum.net/image/162CF4104CD03702224D65)


Yes, this is how I have had seaweed before.  Not in the packaged variety.  Hence my original question.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Natasha on February 28, 2013, 01:53:34 PM
Yes, this is how I have had seaweed before.  Not in the packaged variety.  Hence my original question.

It's the same stuff. You get squares of seaweed stacked on a plastic sleeve.
Title: Seaweed
Post by: OldBaldHippie on February 28, 2013, 11:57:57 PM
Soylent Green...
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: merigayle on March 01, 2013, 07:02:33 AM
I remember when i was in acupuncture school and so many of my classmates would snack on Dulse, which is another kind of seaweed. I just could never do it. Love sushi, love wakame in my soup, but just could not eat it straight up.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Chasing Amy on March 01, 2013, 10:17:12 AM
I just could never do it. Love sushi, love wakame in my soup, but just could not eat it straight up.

1. Seaweed has a sharply bitter taste to me - I can only tolerate it when it's wrapped in rice and seafood.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: onawhim on March 01, 2013, 10:27:04 AM
Dulse is much more intense than nori to me.  It is good for you though  :D
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: witchypoo on March 01, 2013, 11:33:11 AM
dillisk is delicious with potatoes and garlic.  just fyi.
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: Ice Cream on March 02, 2013, 05:46:14 PM
I remember when i was in acupuncture school and so many of my classmates would snack on Dulse, which is another kind of seaweed. I just could never do it. Love sushi, love wakame in my soup, but just could not eat it straight up.

I like dulse
Title: Re: Seaweed
Post by: merigayle on March 02, 2013, 05:52:27 PM
I like dulse
as did most my classmates!