to be angry that he's smoking eels.

[Spidermama]

We have to go away on Wednesday for a week so the plumber can pull up our floorboards and completely replace our heating system. There's a great deal to do before this can happen as the house is in chaos.

He's in the garden smoking eels.

Yesterday we had some friends round from London who we hadn't seen for ages. I cleaned the house and made a cake.

Just when the house was begining to smell fresher he started a fire in the garden in order to smoke eels. I told him I wasn't having it. (I'm vegetarian and so were two of the three visitors.) So he stopped.

I thought we'd be together today sorting the house out. There's so much to do, but he's gone off in the garden to smoke fucking eels again.

Thing is, I don't think he should bring them home in the first place. He's an angler. He caught them. They've been in my fridge and freezer.

I'm very tolerant of meat in the fridge which he cooks for the kids ... but for me this is too much.

He says it's no different from buying a chicken and putting it in the fridge but I just feel this is taking it too far. It's like he's rubbing my nose in it.

AIBU?

How long does it take to smoke an eel?

Can't he leave the eels smoking and do his share round the house?

spidermama yanbu

he should be helping - smoking eels is a fairly extreme carnivorous activity

i would be upset with dp if he did that plus its bank hol

Eels are endangered? That can only be a good thing, in my book, nasty slimey snickey things that they are.

AFAIK there is some parasite that is reducing eel numbers. But if there was concern about them, I reckon they would stop issuing fishing licences for them and they've not!

So Spiderdada is NBU in catching them, smoking them or eating them

btw, when i read this i thought you meant like.. smoking them.. rolling and smoking them! I thought it was a word i hadn't heard of for a rollup or a joint or some kind of cigs i hadn';t heard of!

I'm sorry but the phrase 'smoking eels' is making me laugh far too much to respond seriously. I think this is the problem with the thread. The plumber and smoked eels elements are just too comic.
But I do think if there really is tons to do in the house then smoking eels is probably a little frivolous under the circs.
And I agree that eels are creatures out of a horror movie and I couldn't look either and I'm also an unrepentant carnivore. Eeek!
(you aren't married to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, are you?)

'Eel be helping you later!

Eels are delicious, I have fond memories of catching eels with my dad when I was little and having them tea. Far better to know where you food has come from imo. Hugh Fernley Wernley would be very proud of your DH

Don't smoke them, make sushi! MMM eel rolls are sooooooo good.

YABU he isn't rubbing your nose in it.

He isn't a vegetarian and it's actually generally far more humane to kill something yourself if you know how to do it properly, besides it lived it's life free and ate a natural diet which is more than one can say for the majority of farm animals.

It'd be far worse to waste the meat, now if he did that I wouldn't be at all happy.

It's most likely had a better life and death than the chicken you allow him to bring home for the kids.

Spiderdad is very grateful to the majority of you for easing his eel smoking passage today.

They're all eating smoked eels for lunch now. I'm knitting lentil bake.

Now. Must crack on.

Falcon, intellectually I know you're absolutely right.

Emotionally I can't help being repulsed.

I can understand that,most people have a problem with the thought of killing their own and with the sight of dead animals, and a vegetarian has even more reason to feel that way.

I am biased I admit as I go hunting for rabbits, hare, pheasant etc with hawks but I feel more guilt about buying farm raised meat that I know little about than I do about killing a rabbit.

PMSL @ knitting a lentil bake.

I think this is the best thread I have ever read on AIBU. Sorry not to have sensible advice re the eel-smoking but I am laughing too hard.

smoked eels are delicious .....

Eel sushi is the best.

Here is a wonderful clip especially for Spidermama.

OMFG!

That's the stuff of my nightmares.

Did you see how the head squiggled even though he'd cut it off? I wonder if our heads would do that.

That woman on the rocks. That was me.

Thought you'd like it.

this has reminded me that there was some smoked mackeral in the fridge yesterday but i have no idea where it is now. no one else would have eaten it. it is gone. where is it?

LOL i have a really concrete way of thinking i thought WTF how does he smoke that with tobacco when i read thread title

I was going to say I loved smoked eels and that Spiderdad could come round and smoke me some any day...and then I watched that clip. Gone off them now.

You ate it, Nigeela, possibly in your sleep.