Have you ever eaten a skate?

[Amelia G]

I ate a fish called a skate the other night with a light caper lemon butter sauce and it was delicious.

[ForrestBlack]

I've eaten pavement while on a skate...

[BrightStar]

sounds familiar, but Im not sure.**

[hewhoisagod]

they're like stingrays, I haven't had them yet.

But on my list of things to do before I die is to hitch a ride on a Manta Ray.

[ravenofdeath]

I havent had skate bfor but it sounds interesting.

[nuentoter]

I am with ForestBlack on this one

[MistressJennifer]

I want some!! Yummy!!! Getting tired of my boring apartment diet of bananas and milk...I actually SPLURGED today and bought lunch! A salad!!!

[One Eyed Cat]

I ate a Vision Gater a few times when trying to "Olly" or rail slide.

OEC

[Muzz]

Mmm. The skate sounds yummy!

I suppose the closest I've come to eating a skate is a flounder...and that's soley basedon their flat bodies, lol! I've eaten other things- octopus, eel, alligator, shark, and other things. I love adventure in food, but I personally draw the line at bugs and organs, lol. I just want the meat

[nyar]

eat a skate?- you mean like when roller-girl stomped on that guy in Boogie Nights?

[SindelChaos]

Nope, not a fish person. I can say that when I was little I fell down a couple of times and kids ran over my fingers on rollerskates. I also ran into some big dude that fell down while skating and ended up flipping over him and onto my face.

[Kidthorazine]

yes ive had skate before its a small type of stingray that tends to feed near beaches people step on them and fall sometimes also they have very posionous stingers

[karyn]

definition of skate from allsands

What does it look like?

Skates are members of the rays family. They take many of the same qualities of rays and are closely related to the shovelnose rays. They are large, flat creatures, and are generally gray in color. The largest part of their bodies look like discs. Their heads are quite flat and large and rounded. They may have several pointy ends like a disc would have, namely at the tip of their snouts and on either side. Their tails, however, are long and thin, and look like the tails on any normal fish. Skates can grow to be seven feet long, but they're usually much smaller. The tails on skates generally are simple in appearance. They normally only have one or two, well-defined, short fins.

If you touch a skate, you might hurt yourself, not because these are fierce creatures, but because their skin is very rough. They have small thorns and rough granules lining their bodies.

How does it behave?

These fish live on the bottom of the ocean. They prefer a deepsea habitat. They may be found in groups of several skates, but you'll rarely see more than just a few of them together in one spot.

What do you need to know about it?

When these fish mate, the males use special thorns on their outer disks to grab hold of the females. It's interesting to note that the thorns actually serve a real purpose during copulation. The males are able to use the thorns almost like human hands in order to breed.