jducoeur

Interesting. So, if I understand you, we're horrified precisely by different extremes of the spectrum: you by extreme artificiality, and me by extreme naturalness. As I said, I see surimi as the moral equivalent of tuna salad, or perhaps a more apt description would be mer-Spam %^). It's processed, but basically it's something I'm quite comfortable eating: it's the flesh of fish. On the other hand, I can't get around the fact that whole lobster involves eviscerating a huge arthropod. And -- an order of magnitude more disgusting than that -- eating a soft-shell crab involves not eviscerating a huge bug, just chomping it down whole, guts and all. Spee-EEEW! (As the old joke goes: "What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? Finding half a worm in your apple.")