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[oakenguy]

Do krill ever get mentioned, apart from being cited as the food source for large whales? I'm sure they must, but I've never seen it.

I think they need to fire their publicist, is what I think.

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[fightguy.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry! Whales don't eat clownfish, they eat krill."
"SWIM AWAY!!"
"Oh look! Krill!"

[saltygoodness.livejournal.com]

My husband has studied krill in a non-whale food context

[anadandy.livejournal.com]

Aren't krill "sea-monkeys" or is that brine shrimp?

"Sea-monkey took my money"

[rantarn.livejournal.com]

Sea monkeys are brine shrimp.

Others would beg to differ...

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Between working where I do and having two marine biologists on my f-list I hear a bit much about krill. It's like the museum community-it's marketed to the people who count *nose in air*

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

When I worked in the food flavour industry we experimented quite a bit with krill paste but it goes rancid very quickly.

[mummimamma.livejournal.com]

I know that in some sfi-fi book (Gibson?) people eat krill. It's the food of the future!

[flynngrrl.livejournal.com]

That's why, in 1978, Jaques Cousteau created the Krill and Plankton Annual Ball (the KAP Ball, as it is colloquially known) to raise awareness and funds to enrich the lives of these creatures, who, like their brothers and sisters in mankind's proletariat, are the bountiful foundation upon which the ocean runs its kapitalist machine.

For a brief period of time, he also advocated killing whales and "redistributing their lard to the masses, who have barely any fat to protect them from the cold ocean currents"

Small creatures of the world unite! Overthrow your blubbery overlords!

[godswraith.livejournal.com]

I believe Conan the Barbarian once shouted, "Krill and krill again!' while at sea, due to a speech impediment.

[zombelina.livejournal.com]

i tried to use that on a yahoo word game. it wouldnt let me.....perhaps its a huge conspiracy.....you may be onto something.
or it may have been because it was a name and not a thing.....ack...

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I have freeze-dried krill to feed to my fish and turtle. Does that count?

[sistahraven.livejournal.com]

I have heard mention of them outside of whale food... but not often... and this from me, the biologist super animal geek.

I think phytoplankton get more press...