Urgin' for Urchin!

Looking at these spiny little creatures takes me back to snorkeling in Shark's Cove on the North Shore of Oahu. We'd pull these outerspace lookin' creatures from the rocks and marvel at their undulating beauty as they'd try to crawl across our hands.

I never thought to KILL them for food....It's a little startling to find my beloved snorkel friend with its body cracked open and on your plate.

Here's the weird part...there wasn't anything inside but a little slime that you scraped out with your knife.

At first I thought it was some kind of Sicilian joke, and kept looking over at the Sicilian diners -- thinking they got the urchin meat and the don't-know-nothin-better Americans got their left over shells.

Hmmmm...Jury is still out on that one.