Healthy vs. Unhealthy squid

[markk]

I was reading a local restaurant menu on-line and found this and chuckled and had to share it:

Fried Calamari

One of our signature dishes!!! We take a healthy portion of fresh squid - tubes only, no tentacles - bread them ever so lightly and then quickly fry them for a heavenly and most memorable experience. Served with your choice of sweet, medium or hot marinara sauce.

Gee, I always hope that I'm getting the healthy stuff in a restaurant even if it's not specified.

[Chris Amirault]

I think that the adjective "healthy" here denotes portion size (big).

[russ parsons]

not to be pedantic or anything (who me?), but if they were attributing nutritional characteristics, it would be "healthful".

[Joisey]

You've got a serious lack of imagination if fried f'ing calamari is a signature dish.

[McDermitt]

For the curious

[Reefpimp]

You've got a serious lack of imagination if fried f'ing calamari is a signature dish.

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In Wisconsin we have the Tavern Burger. Farce du beouf sur brioche, if you prefer. Done wrong, it's a disgusting mess; done right, it's pretty darned good; done well, it's a farcing revelation. In the same vein:

One of my acid tests for Greek and Italian and Portuguese restaurants is how the calamari comes out. It's easy to do but pretty damn hard to do *well* and really tricky to be superlative with it, repeatably, no matter who's at the fryer that night.

[coastie]

NO tentacles ........thats the best part..... fry on LOL

[Rebecca263]

The fried calamari with no tentacles always weirds me out. Where did the tentacles go? Were these squid deformed? Yet, even more importantly, looking at the plate on that website, why are those 'fried' squid so white? I sense a chemical disaster, and it scares me. If we eat there and that comes to the table, will you hold my hand?