These actually aren’t palolo worms, which are in the polychaete family Eunicidae, genus Palola. RECIPE. That’s definitely my plan if I ever get some of this stuff again. Dabei handelt es sich um die bekannteste und zugleich die Typusart dieser Gattung. Thank you for the instructions One or two nights during mating season (that’s spring in Samoa, October-November), these worms just divide themselves in half and let their business ends float to the top of the water, where they mingle with and fertilize other business ends and, you know, make babies.It got to us frozen, so of course we didn’t enjoy the wonderful experience of pulling the wriggly worms straight out of the ocean and popping them into our mouths, but it was still sooooo yum.Turns out, palolo is just the reproductive end of a long sea worm called the Palola viridis, of the Polycheata class. (Aaauuuuu. But the fish weren't feasting on the worms themselves. Someday… hopefully soon.Wow. When I was very young in Hawaii, the stories about palolo were like fairy-tales to me: They only come out once a year, under a waning moon The villagers wade out into the night ocean to catch them… I've never seen these famous worms spawning or tasted their castoff gametes. The ones that make it to the feast are fried in onions and butter. Der Samoa-Palolo (Palola viridis, Syn.
During the day, palolo worms (4 to 8 inches long) hide in their own mucus-lined burrows inside coral reef cracks. The mother of the family had just arrived from a holiday in Samoa and was so excited about a small container of palolo she’d brought back.Luckily, though, I don’t have to wait anymore to try palolo again.
Mix together dry ingredients.
Their spawn usually occurs the seventh night after the first full moon following the fall equinox. Some restaurants that day have board specials that say, "Palolo on toast." They then swim to the surface.
I also remember, one day my family was visiting a friend’s beach house (on the North Shore of Oahu, everybody’s shack is a beach house). In the summertime at night, you can sometimes see the ends of these worms squirming and squiggling through the water.When he moved to the area in the '70s, he heard that sailfish were currently offshore, but there were no tarpon, of course, since it was June."Where are the tarpon?" the newcomer asked. Those things don’t last very long, even when they’re in the freezer (cause they’re so yum!) Step 3. Combine with dry ingredients. 2 1/4 c. ice water.
Dip vegetables in and fry in oil. My aunt in Samoa – bless her heart – decided, just out of the blue, to send some palolo to us here in New Zealand.That’s if they don’t get scooped up first by those silly Samoans having a party on the water with their nets and their ula moso’oi and their singing and excitement over this rare and magical seafood.Okay I’m jealous. Laughing, an angler said, "They're all down at Bahia Honda Bridge eating worms." Palolo worms, it turns out. But I would be fascinated to read any if you ever find something! Samoans eat worms from the ocean. But I was wrong. You can put butter on toast if you want. Get One Samoana updates sent to your inbox:Chuck, I don’t know of any studies on Polynesian dream interpretations, I’m sorry. On the specific night, people get up before first light and head to the sea with flashlights to attract the worm ends (each has a row of light-detecting eyes down its center), and then scoop them up in nets.