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Title: Do you like calamari?
Post by: Vulcan on February 22, 2007, 01:45:10 PM
How about 450Kg's worth?

(http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/281205.jpg)

[quoteFishers capture rare monster of the deep
By KENT ATKINSON - NZPA | Friday, 23 February 2007

Reuters/Ministry of Fisheries
MONSTROUS CATCH: This colossal squid, weighing about 450 kilograms, was caught by a longliner in Antarctica.[/quote]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/3971111a10.html


Now thats a chunk of squid :)
Title: Do you like calamari?
Post by: jhookt on February 22, 2007, 01:47:57 PM
the fisherman in the picture is on a 5 day meth binge and thinks he is hallucinating
Title: Do you like calamari?
Post by: Curval on February 22, 2007, 01:53:13 PM
I suspect that calamari would be quite chewy.
Title: Do you like calamari?
Post by: Vulcan on February 22, 2007, 02:04:52 PM
nuther pic:

(http://i.today.reuters.co.uk/misc/genImage.aspx?uri=2007-02-22T093539Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_2_OUKOE-UK-NEWZEALAND-SQUID.jpg&resize=full)
Title: Do you like calamari?
Post by: Carrel on February 22, 2007, 03:11:05 PM
That squid was so big that the calamari rings would have been the size of tractor tires.

To put it in perspective.
Title: Do you like calamari?
Post by: DREDger on February 22, 2007, 03:28:55 PM
the fisherman in the picture is on a 5 day meth binge and thinks he is hallucinating

that is hillarious, that guy does kindof have that look about him.
Title: Do you like calamari?
Post by: Vulcan on February 22, 2007, 05:36:01 PM
Heres all the pics to put the beast into scale:

(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/images/070222-squid_big.jpg)