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Offline Natasha

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Seaweed
« on: February 27, 2013, 02:34:04 PM »
I got these at Costco, and I swear, I cannot stop eating them.



One package is supposed to have 5 servings, and I plow through them all.

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2013, 03:07:27 PM »
What is it?

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Seaweed
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #4 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.

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #6 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. 
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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #7 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.

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #8 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:



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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #9 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

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #10 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
nuh-uh, she said this:

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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).


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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #11 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.

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2013, 06:21:58 PM »
i conveniently had mine destroyed.

all your snacky seaweed are belong to me.

Lol

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #13 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.
"Some things you just need to do for yourself, even if it means nicking your nads."  --nneJ

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #14 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
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.
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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #15 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. 

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2013, 05:33:48 AM »
it goes really well with steaming hot rice (fresh off the rice cooker).
like this:



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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2013, 08:43:53 AM »
yum!
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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2013, 12:06:33 PM »
Mmmmmm. That's what's for dinner.

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Re: Seaweed
« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2013, 12:15:49 PM »
like this:




Yes, this is how I have had seaweed before.  Not in the packaged variety.  Hence my original question.

 

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