Dave Maass

What’s wrong with me? F’real. The more ridiculous an idea is, particularly when it comes to food, the better I think the idea is solely on the merits of its ridiculousness.

For example: A can of El Mexicana-brand Campechana—a seafood salad of mussel, clam, shrimp, octopus, squid and Neptune knows what else—for a buck-ninety that I found on the Mexican food aisle at Smiths.

This was an idea so horrible that my roommate asked me to text message him advance of my plans to cook it up so he could be prepared to take me to the ER.

Here’s the photo documentation of my cheap campechana experiment.

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