How many eat/recognise this ?

nelraheb · Jul 29, 2007

In Egypt we call them Ritsa which is for sure not an Egyptian word. So do you guys have those on your beaches ? Do you eat them ? What are they called in your native languages?

BTW this is the man who sells them by the dozen

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Judica · Jul 29, 2007

in the united states, they are known as sea urchin
i have never tried one.
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nelraheb · Jul 29, 2007

I googled the word and sure it's the same. Strange enough it has many names and not one of them is Ritsa. Where did we get that from

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Kattslackey · Jul 29, 2007

years ago when I stepped on one. Could have gotten my revenge. LOL

Those spikes sting.
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nelraheb · Jul 29, 2007

Last time I saw one alive (maybe 30 years ago) It was 2 m under the sea surface stuck to the side of a rock and it took me a while with a fork to free it. I then did not know what to do with it and just let it go

.. Now it comes to me on a plate I can't complain

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miranda388562 · Jul 29, 2007

We call them sea urchin or the Maori name kina. (pronounced more like keena).

I don't eat them. They are too strongly flavoured for my taste, but many Maori consider them a delicacy.
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nelraheb · Jul 30, 2007

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jordibr · Jul 30, 2007

In Spanish "Erizo de mar" and in Catalan "Garota de Roca"

Judica · Jul 30, 2007

what do they taste like?
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Olga Johnson · Jul 30, 2007

..it's called Achinios. Considered a great delicacy; fished out of the water and eaten on the spot by friends of mine. I was never wild for it.

Didn't know the English word for it till now.

Olga

JJ Winkel · Jul 30, 2007

South of France there are plenty in the Mediterranean sea, the one we eat are the female ones, as the red part are the genital parts, the females are usually bigger, reder and have shorter spikes, whereas the male ones are darker smaller and have longer spikes and nothing to eat.

When people wander in the shallow rocky sea fronts without foot protection they usually keep some very painful souvenirs .... ;-)

We like to eat the red parts on bread with butter, it is very healthy as it contains lots of iodine, hence the color and the taste.
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AQUA3D · Jul 30, 2007

Olga Johnson said:
..it's called Achinios. Considered a great delicacy; fished out of
the water and eaten on the spot by friends of mine. I was never wild
for it.

Didn't know the English word for it till now.

Olga

It is forbidden in Greece just recently to fish and eat Achinio. It is very delicious accompanied with ouzo.

Aqua.

Benoz · Jul 30, 2007

..are called "Riccio di mare".
In my younger days I loved eating them, very delicious.
I used to live on the coast of the Mare Tirreno.
Don't know whether they still eat them now..(polluted waters).
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emats · Jul 30, 2007

we call it "wana" pronounced va-na with a "v" sound. It's a sea urchin and we eat it too. I stepped on it many times while surfing and their prongs get stuck in my feet. My friend had some stuck in his foot a year ago and as we speak, he's walking around with a bandaged foot because he had to operate removing some tissue that was infected.

khoss · Jul 30, 2007

We eat these at the beach. I'd expect to see what you have pictured around somebodies wrist in Coney Island ..

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AQUA3D · Jul 30, 2007

AQUA3D said:
Olga Johnson said:

..it's called Achinios. Considered a great delicacy; fished out of
the water and eaten on the spot by friends of mine. I was never wild
for it.

Didn't know the English word for it till now.

Olga

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It is forbidden in Greece just recently to fish and eat Achinio. It
is very delicious accompanied with ouzo.

Aqua.

Also very aphrodisiac food.....

Kbert · Jul 30, 2007

And in sushi bars they are listed as "uni", usually served on a rice ball surrounded with a strip of nori (seaweed paper) like to make a little cup; often with a raw quail egg-yolk on top. Delicious - strongish essence of the sea!
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kage · Jul 30, 2007

I love uni! (sea urchin).

Are those cooked?

I've only had them raw.

To sell them by the dozen, they must be pretty inexpensive down there. They are pretty pricey in the US (and Japan).

Creamy buttery goodness.

k a g e

nelraheb · Jul 31, 2007

I don't know how to describe taste

Well with a drop of lemon they are very near to many sea food that's nice with a cold beer
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nelraheb · Jul 31, 2007

Hi Olga at least Achinios is related to the English "urchin". I wonder where this Ritsa word came to us from and I thought it was Greek now you blew this out

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