Burning Question of the Day

[anotheranon]

Caviar is fish eggs.

A beluga, if I'm not mistaken, is a type of whale. To wit, a mammal, a creature that gives birth to live young.

So where does beluga caviar come from??

I'm SERIOUS - does it come from some sort of fish that LOOKS like a beluga, or do beluga belong to an extremely weird order of mammal like echidnas and platypi?

Help me out here!

Comments

something fishy

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Beluga caviar comes from the beluga sturgeon - a really big fish.

[curiousangel.livejournal.com]

"Beluga" is also the name of a type of sturgeon found in the Caspian Sea. Check out this page on caviar to learn more about it. It's the largest variety of sturgeon found in the Caspian, and specimens have been caught weighing up to 600 kg with as much as 50% of body weight in eggs.

This food geek moment brought to you by the letter M. :)

here's a tangent...

[geekchick]

The Russians had a sniffer cat, who was used to uncover smuggled shipments of sturgeon. Poor kitty met a suspicious end recently though.

This news of the weird update brought to you by "not a fan of fish eggs". ;)

here's a tangent...

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

A hit put out on a cat? I suppose if he really was that talented of a sniffer.

I'm surprised that they don't hire a herd of cats to do this kind of thing...

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

You see, I knew it had to be something like this - whales don't lay eggs. I suppose "beluga" sounds a little more exotic than "sturgeon", as well as providing a way to tell the caviar of different kinds of sturgeon apart. My mind is now at ease!! :)

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

That was a perfectly WONDERFUL geek moment - and informative as well. Some of us do appreciate geekdom!!!