and you thought fish were fun!
well at prices of up to 1,000 euros (at today's rate £881.40 or $1,152.15) per kilo these are definitely not funny!, especially as they have hardly any taste at all, their
texture is best described as slimy and they look like limp worms on a plate, what
are they? baby eels, so why are people paying hundreds of euros to eat angulas
at expensive restaurants? it appears that many people like to act like snobs
every once in a while, so they pay a premium to enjoy a food that most people
can’t afford, rarity definitely plays a big part in their surprising price, river
dams, the general degradation of the environment and overfishing have seriously
affected the baby eel population, and the rarer they got the more expensive
they became,
“I would not pay so much for them, they have no flavor or color, nothing, they do not even smell, a lettuce has more aroma, but we had two men here who ordered half a kilo, five hundred euros at a time, some people with money like to spend it. Who does not like to be a snob once in a while?” Rodrigo García Fonseca, the head chef of a well-known Basque restaurant in Madrid, told the BBC,
“When I was young, in the 1950s and 60s, we ate a lot of angulas. At that time, they were still considered too low class for a restaurant to serve, but in the ‘70s, the great Basque restaurants like Arzak started to cook with them, and all of a sudden, angulas were high class,” award-winning food writer and historian Manolo González told the BBC, “Exclusivity has always played a role in gastronomy,” González added, I have to say looking at the video I feel rather sorry for the baby eels.
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