Horrifyingly delicious.
Today, Discovery Channel is serving up a “Best of Shark Week” marathon in order to soothe a frazzled nation’s nerves. To remind Californians, New Yorkers, Floridians and Idahoans that other terrors lurk beneath the ocean’s placid surface that are neither Corona nor Virus.
Razor sharp teeth etc.
Misanthropic, malevolent, sociopathic urges etc.
Well, viewing numbers may be down as five massive Great White sharks are amassing off the coast of North Carolina and, according to scientists, preparing to “feast on a buffet.”
I imagine that North Carolinians make up a large percentage of Discovery Channel’s viewership and taste of vinegar, pimento cheese, Cheerwine and grits. A veritable buffet feast if there ever was one but let us turn to the experts for more.
A group of five great white sharks is “stacked” off North Carolina’s southern coast, and researchers see the unique formation as proof those waters are a perfect feeding ground for large apex predators.
The sharks — ranging from 8 feet to 12 feet, 7 inches — are lined along the invisible edges of the Gulf Stream, a warm current that also contributes to the creation of the Outer Banks barrier islands.
“Positioning themselves here allows them (sharks) to access a huge range of water temperatures just by moving relatively short distances east and west,” scientists at OCEARCH said in a Monday Facebook post.
The edges of the Gulf Stream are known for hosting nutrient rich “upwellings,” where deeper cold water rises closer to the surface, attracting hungry fish, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Great white sharks use these areas like a buffet, experts believe.
Maybe North Carolinians taste of hush puppies, fried green tomatoes, cigarettes and Bojangles fried chicken.
Have you ever eaten one?
Much to ponder.
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Making Carolina great again!
I like the way the graphic has them all facing the shore line, like one of those Cold War maps showing the location of nuclear warheads. very sinister.
Like most Outer Bankers, the one I ate, she tasted like beer.
Depends what part of the North Carolinan you eat. When I went to the Outer Banks a long time ago, I remember from the waist up, she tasted faintly of stale beer. Down below, lightly salty with a hint of brine. Rather nice. But round the backside, tasted lightly soiled and not quite right.
It’s a tenuous one – they either lose the taste for humans as we all get banned from water, or it goes into overdrive!! As soon as a toe hits the water we get annihilated – am banking on the second to cull the amount of Kovid Kooks I am encountering!!
A staggering thought: Would it be possible for a shark to transmit Coronavirus between its attack victims? Eg if it bit a infected surfer and then bit me, could I catch it?
Until this is properly studied I don’t think anybody should be going in the water.
“ Maybe North Carolinians taste of hush puppies, fried green tomatoes, cigarettes and Bojangles fried chicken.”
Hahahahar, so stupid. Hahahar
I’d upvote if I could.
I thought* hush puppies were Louisiana comfort food. Are they cross cultural with North Carolina?
*data compiled from episode of Duck Dynasty, where I witnessed a campfire-side hush puppies eating challenge occur. Victory came with a price.
I’m no expert but am pretty sure they’re all related south of the Mason Dixon line.
You’re probably right. I can’t imagine hush puppies coming from different litters.
The Gulf Stream is so mental! Nature at its finest