20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) The Dinner Party

Captain Nemo introduces his captives the food of the sea

[@Stzit]

The look on Nemo's face was he explains the origins of the food. Such pride in what he's accomplished. What an amazing performance.

[@gentlemanvontweed7147]

Let's be honest. That stuff sound delicious!

[@haynes1776]

Imagine having a submarine like the Nautilus and exploring the sea and living on seafood and Being like Captain Nemo. James Mason was perfect. So was Kirk Douglas. Rest in peace. And to the rest of the cast.

[@caseycarr3339]

Agreed I would love this kind of life.

[@dominicmalloy4252]

So would I

[@alanfoster6589]

Kirk hammed it up a little too much for my taste. But hey, 19th century whaler, so....

[@mojo3999]

You know who didn’t have a submarine like the Nautilus?

[@brettbarnett3465]

Nemo is so calm with Ned's rudeness and the others freaking out over finding out what the food really is. I always loved this scene as a kid.

[@jeffw1267]

I think he was pissed that Ned was so happy all the time.

[@leroykevin]

you'd think that an old salt like Ned would be used to the odd meal's

[@Arrakeen77]

Ned might be rude but I feel a part of his eating with a knife was his attempt to irritate Nemo. Ned seems the type to instigate.

[@garcalej]

Seriously, Ned, what the fuck do you eat everyday? Salty pork and stale-ass biscuits with weevils? Washed down with rum that tastes like paint thinner? A real sailor wouldn't turn his nose up at such a feast, much less a seasoned whaler like yourself.

[@LeeLee19901]

Yeah me too I always got hungry.

[@rgray5783]

This is one of the most brilliant movies ever made .

[@tiluriso]

Ned Land dispensing with a fork and using only his knife to eat, in true seaman style, always impressed me.

[@kfures3469]

Wait that's how they ate?

[@tiluriso]

@@kfures3469 I'm assuming some of them did, maybe a full cutlery set was available only to captain and immediate officers, not to general crew, or maybe not, perhaps it was just bravado that some hardcore geezers employed to impress diletantes like myself and to provoke a reaction in cultivated and 'proper gentlemen' like Capt'n Nemo.

[@BeelySalasBlair-uy5wn]

​@@kfures3469many, yes 🔪, or even use the lid from cans, etc

[@freyjairis103]

i noticed during the scene some parts Captain Nemo is smiling slightly as he tells the guys what they are really eating like its funny to him but hes trying not to show it but a few times he does crack a smile. loved this scene and james mason=captain nemo!

[@pierretrembacz7783]

Now all four of then are gone RIP

[@mkaplan1383]

@@pierretrembacz7783 Seems like the entire cast is now extinct.

[@drummer5461]

Rest in peace Kirk Douglas, my favorite actor from childhood, starring ing my favorite movie.Thanks for the memories.

[@nathancruz9172]

drummer54 me too.

[@kfures3469]

He was an amazing actor. I bet he was also as funny in real life as he was on the screen

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

Always liked James Mason distinguished voice......

[@jeffw1267]

Gilbert Gottfried used to do a James Mason impression. Really. It was quite good.

[@hopemueller2658]

He sounds like a higher pitched Alan Rickman

[@mkaplan1383]

But did you know he took under his wing an understudy? Sam Neil is his successor.

[@jtlovescodelyoko]

RIP Kirk Douglas He's Return with his cast mates from this movie

[@nathancruz9172]

JT LovesCodeLyoko you mean at El Capitan?

[@kenburns4547]

JTLovesCodeLyoko RIP my ass, he was 104, we should all be so RIP lucky. St. Peter said "WTF TOOK you so long?" for God's sake.

[@ObiTrev]

James Mason is the only true Captain Nemo.

[@kendalls3774]

Well said. I agree

[@brcshephard]

Michael Cane is a close second!

[@freyjairis103]

damn right!

[@scitsalcoryp]

I tolerate no guests aboard The Nautilus !

[@Mutrino]

I'd argue Omar Sharif is the one true Nemo

[@fountaincap]

This scene always made me hungry, even as a kid, when I wasn't crazy about seafood.

[@capedj]

Ned's face when the Captain tells them about the food is simply outstanding!! :-D

[@SuperTed19021]

He was actually enjoying it till he found out what it was!

[@altarush]

Captain Nemo solves the vapo problem and nicotine addiction with seaweed cigars.

[@scitsalcoryp]

ahahah

[@jondstewart]

And you can blow into a seashell to light it instead of using nasty sulphur or flint of the land you scrape against to produce fire.

[@georgeofhamilton]

Probably better than smoking weed too.

[@AlanCanon2222]

These four mad geniuses. I've worked on a stage production or two in my time, and you know when actors are happy to put up with whatever rigors the set offers, because if they do, they get to do scenes like this.

[@skinnysnorlax9356]

0:58 “Oh, I’m indifferent to ‘em-OOW, MY TONGUE!! I CUT BY FLIBBIN’ TONGUE!!”

[@PositiveLastAction]

This scene always got me hungry for seafood.

[@jondstewart]

PositiveLastAction Except the seafood served is nothing mankind has ever made up to this day to taste like meat and fruit preserves! I don’t know why Captain Nemo couldn’t come up with more convential fish and shellfish to serve.

[@metepec20092012]

Jon Stewart well, I think mostly, in other words, it would be interesting to create a character who has a dinner based on edible insects

[@scitsalcoryp]

I'll bet you sit around watching ' Deadliest Catch ' haha Next time you eat crab remember the men who died getting it to you

[@damage6836]

Stfu

[@rgray5783]

@@damage6836 You shut the fuck up moron

[@marcusjustice6165]

Actor Peter Lorre had the opportunity to sail on both The Submarine Nautilus as Conseil 1954 and The USOS Seaview as Commodore Lucius Emory 1961.

[@dragonfly492]

How can anyone not like this scene.

[@angaddixit4608]

Capt.Nemo is super classy..

[@scitsalcoryp]

He's an asshole with a lot of money ..... what the hell you talking about ? He is a murderer

[@jondstewart]

R Gray He’s an asshole with a lot of money, but supposedly he’s a Bruce Wayne with the ocean. In 1869 he can cleverly construct a submarine with electricity and plush living quarters, an organ, have suitable deep sea diving equipment, make tasty cigars out of seaweed lighting them with a seashell, and most of all, a fake luxury dinner of inedible sea creatures making you think you’re eating gourmet red meats, fruits, and vegetables.

[@freyjairis103]

@r gray like seriously what’s wrong with that? Ok yeah he goes too far but what people don’t get is that Captain Nemo has a rough life. He was a brilliant scientist (and a prince) and the wrong people mainly the government wanted his scientific secrets so they would use them for destruction which is what he didn’t want so he refused and he was enslaved and thrown in prison while his wife and child were killed. Therefore making him see the world and the majority of mankind for what it really is and I’m sorry I don’t blame the poor man. You can’t trust anybody and people just go out of their way to make life hell for others for personal gratification and their own greed and evil, and it’s sad. Yeah he may have overdid it but if some jerks came after me and my own for something I have and they want to use for corruption while throwing my ass in prison and killing my family i would be pissed off too!

[@Tsumefan2]

@@scitsalcoryp you mean he is a classy asshole XD

[@danabrown4628]

@@scitsalcoryp He's the kind of asshole we could use a lot more of.

[@professorroundbottom438]

I never really understood why it was only delicious until they found out what it was. It's still just as good after you know, isn't it? Calamari is still yummy after you find out that it's squid.

[@jondstewart]

Except the Captain’s cook somehow manipulated the menu to make inedible sea creatures make you think you were eating red meat, fruits, vegetables, cream, and pudding. The elegant setting made them appealing until they realized what they really were.

[@professorroundbottom438]

@@jondstewart Clearly though, the inedible sea creatures were not merely edible but actually enjoyable. If it was delicious before they knew what it was, why wouldn't it be after? If something looking a little weird made it unfit to eat, nobody would eat lobster or escargot.

[@TheGirlgamer321]

I think it’s a combination of the deception, with the cook making these foods look and taste like other foods, and the words he uses. “Milk from the sperm whale” and what was the last one-something about unborn squid? Certainly doesn’t sound very appealing.

[@davidwesley2525]

@@TheGirlgamer321 how did they milk a whale ? You can't milk a whale like milking a cow.

[@Heil-Haidra2319]

So it basically eel (sea snake), caviar (unborn octopus) and still sea cucumber. Typical stuff I would see at a Japanese restaurant. Ned's reaction is just typical western disgust towards non western dishes that exist outside his worldview.

[@3piper]

Always thought Nemo just made up the remark about octopus pudding. Ned was really pissing him off

[@desotowright]

Everything being served sounds delicious though. I wouldn’t mind being a prisoner on the Nautilus.

[@berner]

Captain Nemo has class. He takes the very thing you insult him about and turns it around to drive it into your soul and you don't even know it.

[@haynes1776]

Love this scene where Ned and Counsel were freaking out after Nemo told them what they were eating. I would rather have crab, any kind of fish, shrimp, my favorite, and fried calamari. Lol

[@andreoscar3174]

my favorite movie as a kid

[@nathancruz9172]

Andre oscar me too.

[@mike2652]

RIP Kirk Douglas. Lived to be 103.

[@forinfulo]

I love this movie.. 🤗

[@highlander723]

If I were sitting at the table I would be complimenting Captain Nemo after each dish. Given that he probably saved my life I owe him at least that. I would also tell Ned to use a fork and a knife. I would also remind him that he is a representative of the Navy and that he is not eating in a brothel.

[@chickenwizard]

_[i am so sorry]_

[@highlander723]

eco harvey I just can't abide vulgarity at the table. If you're going to dry hump the table I suggest you do net next you two would be perfect for each other.

[@edible0pig]

@@highlander723 Ned Land is a harpooner - that is to say, he's brought along by the professor. He is not a member of the navy and in no way beholden to them.

[@edible0pig]

@@highlander723 Cool that you've got better manners than a character that is explicitly written to chafe under authority and etiquette. Are you also the kind of person who'd have pointers on Darth Vader's management style?

[@highlander723]

@@edible0pig I didn't reply to you a month ago and you seem to want to reply out of me so I'll give you one why not I'll bite. No because Darth Vader is a space wizard. And that universe takes place in a fictional environment that has absolutely nothing to do with Earth. 20000 Leagues Under the Sea even though it is fiction does take place in an Earth-like Universe almost like a parallel universe in which case yes I would tell Ned exactly what I told you in my original comment. I just can't stand vulgarity at the dinner table especially when Captain Nemo could have killed them all. Even in the book Captain Nemo was a gentleman and told them that they were technically prisoners-of-war but he would treat them with hospitality. I think it's only fair to return said Hospitality with manners because it is a show of class. Now if Captain Nemo was torturing them or brutalizing them in any way or starving them then yeah I would agree with Ned I would be vulgar as well and insubordinate.... but that's not the case here. If anything the dinner scene was actually an opportunity for diplomacy between Captain Nemo and the three captives. But Ned being the vulgar harpooner that he was ruined any opportunity of that.

[@jasonangulo-torres8439]

Rest in peace Kirk Douglas who is the greatest in this movie along with the other actors will never forget Kirk Douglas 1 of Hollywood's greatest of actors.

[@SuperTed19021]

103! *What a innings!*

[@BuckyTheN00b2]

The news just came over my phone. RIP Kirk Douglas

[@nathancruz9172]

The Real Bucky me too. 1916-2020.

[@dannythomas417]

I only came for Kirk Douglas, one of the last true legends still alive!

[@stevemora7845]

Yes! And we are blessed to have him still. ☺

[@nathancruz9172]

Steve Mora he just passed away yesterday at the age of 103.

[@matthewmcvey3494]

The passing of a titan

[@freyjairis103]

RIP😢 I came for both Kirk and James they are so adorable as the exact opposites in this legendary film.

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

Mason had such a distinguished voice.

[@DenitaArnold]

Yes he did. He was also a cat over; fun fact😸

[@ianfortuna9385]

I love how they were enjoying their meals until they found out what they were eating

[@dcdrew3]

Well this isn't Long John Silver's or Red Lobster! 😂🦈🐙🐠🐟

[@mkaplan1383]

I wouldn't have mind it.

[@ianfortuna9385]

@@mkaplan1383 nor would i it’s like when I was eating a hotdog they told me what’s in that I was like “Eww yet still so tasty” and I continued eating

[@mkaplan1383]

@@ianfortuna9385 My thoughts exactly since someone told me what was the main ingredient to some of the dishes I had. I looked puzzled at first and almost look like I was going to be sick, and then gave a shrug gesturing "oh well" and helped myself to seconds.

[@ianfortuna9385]

@@mkaplan1383 lol you n i both know good food when we see one

[@scitsalcoryp]

There's a fork on your left Mr. Land or aren't you accustomed to utensels ?

[@williamdufour4826]

Outstanding movie!

[@balanb312]

I saw this movie around 1954. The only theater in town. Freeport Maine. I read Jules Verne's book of the title, on Cape Cod as a teenager in the 60's, alone watching the waves roll in. Expecting the Nautilus to surface at any moment. I own the 1917 green tinted version, but only James Mason will be Captain Nemo in my mind. Jeez I'm over 71 now. Way better than global warming or the next world war . Just fond memories of another era. I just had to respond to William Dufour's respond. Thank you. Alan.

[@jondstewart]

balanb312 I’m sure you thought the movie was way ahead of its time back then. Especially that it’s an alternate world in 1869. Most of the United States was ancient except for parts of the northeast, yet this man has a beautiful submarine with all kinds of gadgets and a pipe organ playing Bach in his spare time

[@ethanz4452]

Growing up obsessed with this movie I was in awe of Nemo I genuinely looked up to him he was a fearless Genius jaded by the evil of the world but he felt so real.

[@unsinnkim3690]

"A prisoner has a right to escape, hasn't he?" "That is correct." Makes you cringe when you remember Nemo was a prisoner before he became captain of the Nautilus.

[@stravinsky1300]

No one knows it yet by this point in the movie, but since Nemo is an escaped prisoner himself, he can't exactly deny Ned's remark that a prisoner has a right to escape.

[@JohnFleming-sw7hn]

I wonder how did nemo and his crew friends were able to find parts to build the nataulis submarine?

[@alanfoster6589]

@@JohnFleming-sw7hn Amazon.

[@davidwesley2525]

@@JohnFleming-sw7hn Nemo is a Genius , He found a way.

[@rorieb20]

" Eat your pudding Mr Land."

[@mkaplan1383]

😐 I ain't sure it's pudding....

[@rorieb20]

@@mkaplan1383 great film even better book

[@YTB4]

Brisket of blowfish with sea squid dressing basted in barnacles and saute of unborn octopus pudding. What exotic cuisine, mmmmmm, seafood lovers delight!

[@scitsalcoryp]

' I don't know captain ...a prisoner has a right to escape doesn't he ? '

[@joezilla0250]

That is correct 😑

[@JohnFleming-sw7hn]

Then I guess I don't need to!

[@waynemacfarland1546]

What's really flabbergasting is why Captain Nemo treats his captives as guests when he obviously considers them his prisoners, although I wouldn't mind being a prisoner aboard the Nautilus if this is the way Captain Nemo treats his prisoners.

[@jcortese3300]

"I'm indifferent to `em." I love Kirk Douglas in this, and I LOVE James Mason's subtle intimations that Nemo's enjoying f***ing with them. 🙂 Even when I read the book, I still see him and Douglas as Nemo and Ned Land.

[@ddmck1972]

I'm sure I would find this food appetizing and would love to try filet of sea snake. Everyone thought so until Nemo explains what they're actually eating. It's just like frog legs tasting like chicken.

[@alanfoster6589]

So does rattlesnake. Can't vouch for sea snake.

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

FANTASTICA ESCENA

[@scitsalcoryp]

We are grateful to be alive

[@JohnFleming-sw7hn]

No matter how bad things are getting always be grateful when you we are alive! Live today as you were to die tomorrow!

[@scitsalcoryp]

@@JohnFleming-sw7hn That is good .

[@jarodcarnarvon5198]

RIP Kirk Douglas RIP sea lion ( Obviously died way before Kirk did)

[@panzerfaust503]

What a dream to eat such high quality food ! The meat from the marine beings is know for being the best and most healthy food possible ! The way he acts , so elegant , so ferm , like a true gentleman , and the pristine food .... it get's me !

[@jondstewart]

The FDA wouldn’t have approved this back then. But they approve Spam, McDonald’s and KFC food today!

[@kenpoarniceguy1]

@@jondstewart Screw FDA! They can't tell the difference between canned fish and fresh caught

[@MarcoCaifan87]

2:10 I could’ve sworn when I first watched the film as a kid this part zoomed in on Ned as he asked “what is it?” Before switching over to Nemo. I’m guessing that was a pan-and-scan alteration from the VHS?

[@jpk2145]

MarcoCaifan87 you are right! I remember from the VHS

[@Garrettk41]

@@jpk2145 This is from a DVD copy.

[@mkaplan1383]

The DVD gives you the letterbox view.

[@nathancruz9172]

I loved eating the seafood 🦞 at any restaurants.

[@3dartistguy]

Nemo should have never told them what they were eating!

[@jondstewart]

3dartistguy Just out of curiosity, I’d like to really see what brisket of blowfish basted in barnacles tastes like. Blowfish is a Japanese delicacy and barnacles are parasites. And I’d doubt if octopus embryo tastes like tapioca!

[@3dartistguy]

lol

[@3dartistguy]

all that stuff he was serving to them would give me diarrhea!

[@fountaincap]

"If I tell you, I'm afraid you won't even try it." -Hannibal Lecter

[@Eidlones]

He will give you these gifts. if you choose to ask, he will tell you. If you don't eat, you will starve. He presents everything matter of factly, take his terms, or leave it. He doesn't care which.

[@Xexal01]

Dang. Those dishes would be worth a fortune on land. They all sound delicious.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I'm starting to see where Michael Douglas inherited his acting skills from.

[@Garrettk41]

Yeah, You can particularly see his dad in him in "Fatal Attraction".

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

@@Garrettk41 never seen that movie before.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

I wouldn't say so. Kirk's approach to acting was different, he was more of a stage actor. Michael was more understated, he was more of a film actor.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

@ricardocantoral7672 judging by this video, I'd say Kirk was both a film and stage actor.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

​@@marvinthemaniac7698Yes, he was a film actor but that doesn't mean he wasn't stagey. He has a tendency to do over the top gesticulations, what you call "playing to the back row".

[@stempo1]

James Mason is perfect as Nemo, And so very complex.

[@scitsalcoryp]

It's brisket of blowfish with seasquid dressing basted in barnacles haha it's very good !

[@jpk2145]

Is it sea squid or sea squirt?

[@scitsalcoryp]

@@jpk2145 hahaa omgosh

[@scitsalcoryp]

Gives new meaning to the term ' Down Unda ' they might be around Australia who knows besides Nemo

[@PlatonicPurplePanda]

I always thought he was eating clam chowder with a knife. 😂😂😂

[@Tsumefan2]

i would've enjoyed that dinner even if i found out what the food really is

[@camp14dogg]

Kirk Douglas is superb.

[@glitterboy2098]

given my allergies, i'd have real trouble at his table (allergic to fish and shellfish), but i always found this sequence to be fascinating for the way that nemo had fully adapted to living in the ocean, and the exotic ingredients used. imagine how tricky it must have been to get milk from a sperm whale for example. though i sometimes wonder if he was lying about exactly which sea creatures were used for each dish, to see their responses.

[@PhilMante]

"The cream of course is milk from the giant sperm whale." I wonder how it looked milking a sperm whale.

[@mkaplan1383]

And how do you think fish eggs are processed too?

[@h.r.gerrard2960]

All I can say is that it's "A Whale of a Tale!"

[@robertwnorrisii9143]

“ Are you going to write another book Mr. Dalio?”

[@SimonLeicester]

RIP Kirk

[@nathancruz9172]

Simon Mallinson 1916-2020

[@JoseBronxRican]

"Well, if we took the bones out, it wouldn't be 'crunchy', would it?"

[@arthurwong1738]

Snake meat tastes better than chicken. A little firmer but has a sweeter taste. If sea snake does taste like veal, I would like to try it. 😋

[@michaelnally2841]

While they weren’t 100% accurate with captain Nemo for me James Mason made this movie. Everyone else was good but Captain Nemo was definitely the most interesting character in this film in my opinion.

[@scitsalcoryp]

We tolerate no guests aboard the Nautilus...and we already know the fate of prisoners....... Nemo is going to know

[@scitsalcoryp]

Since we're nearing the Isle of Crespo there might be a Mc Donalds or a Popeyes fried chicken joint hahaa

[@kenpoarniceguy1]

You are just spamming this comment section nonstop aren't you?

[@scitsalcoryp]

@@kenpoarniceguy1 why not ?

[@kenpoarniceguy1]

@@scitsalcoryp It makes you look lame

[@scitsalcoryp]

@@kenpoarniceguy1 well , I apologize . I understand exactly what you are saying . I am alone most of the time ... and my socialization is mostly here . Even before the covid insanity I hung out with people here ... Thank you for your honesty ... it means more than you can know !!

[@gautammisra2741]

Land of rising sun Japan is undoubtedly had costliest restaurant due to excuisite sea foods even prepared from sea weed oil . unbelievable. My elder brother Debashis Misra is in Razabazar Sc college still I got the hint from him today. Sir was right dkb, off in Japan at nineties were them nouch available to calcutta University students , due to high standard of fooding and lodging there.

[@jeanculasec1466]

This scene made me hungry for seafood

[@georgeofhamilton]

That food all sounds delicious, to be honest.

[@Drixenol86]

It’s an acquired taste.

[@jakemake142]

If I were to sit down and have dinner with Captain Nemo I would ask him Why choose vendetta? And can never get over the trauma you have experienced 😢

[@warriorking0723]

Don't understand why they start to become reluctant to eat more when they start to hear what food really is. If it taste good what does it matter. Though I do get why ned spit out the pudding when it turn out to be from an unborn octopus.

[@Boskov01]

I want to try this food.

[@jondstewart]

Boskov01 In reality, Japanese use sea cucumbers and sea snake as delicacies that nobody else eats. See cucumbers are hardly anything close to being a fruit or vegetable. But how you can extract milk in the sperm whale is beyond me! The book was more realistic in what they ate. One thought he was eating stewed pork and it was dolphins livers, and veal cutlets that was actually fillet of sea turtles. And using see anemones as sugar or jam and seaweed for cigars doesn’t sound quite right.

[@kenpoarniceguy1]

@@jondstewart Don't forget jellyfish

[@remeyrune6009]

A bit different than the book but an excellent movie

[@scitsalcoryp]

Got any Grand Marnier hotshot...or Cointreau ? That'd get us all thrown back outside hhaaa

[@darrylrajamae4855]

I the captain's jacket

[@ryanphillips5688]

Doesn't Captain Nemo remind you of Kelsey Grammar somehow?

[@gardetto265]

Am I the only millennial that likes this movie?

[@jesseiese3976]

What drink is captain Nemo drinking

[@speedformercy]

what are they so upset about? Just eat the damn dinner!

[@jondstewart]

speedformercy Yes, in 1869, Captain Nemo and his chef knew you could make sea creatures sold in Japanese stores and restaurants later on taste like red meat and fruit and have no doubt if it would poison the crew.

[@googelle7555]

@@jondstewart DAMN if that wasn't an amazing run-on sentence!

[@kenpoarniceguy1]

Landlubber chickens that's them

[@karlkrump6634]

Ever since I saw Kirk Douglas eat with a knife, I have made a point to eat my mashed potatoes like that.

[@allisonbilbey1948]

Personally even if I knew what it actually was in still gonna eat it if it tastes like the actual thing or if it’s good

[@KMDragonS]

Captain Nemo: Yes my cook excels in preparing these products. Me: by any chance was your cook trained in Japan? Because experience Japanese Sushi chefs are the only ones that I know that can make Blowfish edible

[@jondstewart]

Brisket of blowfish at that! That should be maybe 2 bites of food at the most making it from the neck of a fish that grows no more than 2 feet long. And basting it with sea squirt and barnacles? 😒

[@arthurwong1738]

I had dolphin in miami in 1989 when I went to the Dolphins- Jets game on MNF. The dolphin tasted like beef liver and coat me &45.00.😝 However, the alligator for $14.95 tasted like pork with a fishy taste. 👍🏻I shoulh have had the Cajun Alligator with the alligator sliceopen for $50.00. I coud l have tried a marlin steak for 25.00. He said it tastesdlike firm tuna.I am getting hungry. Go Phins! And I am from Raider Territory.🏉

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

This is one instance where I wish I was ignorant and just enjoyed the food.

[@jondstewart]

Emperor Constantine 1. Same as eating conventional American food. If we saw how our meat is made from the time it’s slaughtered until it ends up on a dinner plate, we might be more repulsed than eating sea creatures passing as red meat, fruits, and vegetables.

[@kenpoarniceguy1]

@@jondstewart i saw how meat was made. And I still eat meat

[@arthurwong1738]

The very first Foodie gross out.

[@wilfridwibblesworth2613]

You would think Kirk Douglas' character as a sailor in the 19th century would be glad to enjoy such a fine meal! Instead he spits it out and yell _"Nothin' here is fit to eat!"_ and would enjoy eating hard-tac while having all his teeth fall out through scurvy than have a proper nutritious meal from the sea.

[@neftaliriverajr6767]

Hey if I was there I'll eat it, I mean why not? Most of us eat Sea food anyway an being trapped on the Natuelus for a lengthy period might as well eat the best from Nemo!👍👍👍☕

[@kenpoarniceguy1]

Yeah! Though sperm whale milk is the only thing that scares me

[@Gwaithmir]

I would have enjoyed that meal---exotic foods from the sea.

[@scitsalcoryp]

Brisket of blowfish hahahaha

[@scitsalcoryp]

Ned Land is a party animal

[@liamwatson5125]

Ned and Conseil were clearly against seafood.

[@kennethlamb378]

Jules Verne based the Nautilus on the notorious Confederate raider, the CSS Alabama. Please see the Raphael Semmes Wikipedia page.

[@scitsalcoryp]

what is it ? It's my own recipe...sautee of unborn octopus

[@quietman71]

Something tells me he was fed up with Ned's attitude and made that up just to gross him out.

[@scitsalcoryp]

@@quietman71 hahaha

[@DavidbarZeus1]

Recently I learned that people believe that Nemo has been 'white-washed' because he's usually portrayed by a white man and he's supposed to be an Indian. However, there is a problem with that: it doesn't fit the description in the novel. One of Arronax's points in his description is that he is "rather pale." How many Indians can be described as such?

[@jondstewart]

Wesley Molt The book portrayed Nemo as a total enigma. I’d say he was a Brit or of mixed British and Indian ancestry raised in India by aristocratic parents at home to be highly intelligent. Sort of a Bruce Wayne of the sea that knows how to construct a submarine with electricity and luxury living and how to make a gourmet meal that tastes like veal, lamb, cream, and tasty fruit out of otherwise supposedly inedible and forbidding sea creatures.

[@mish375]

His ethnicity was questionable because Verne made it questionable. Apparently he had Nemo as Caucasian at one point, but this was changed later to Indian. Probably the best solution to this - as Nemo is an Indian prince - is that he is biracial.

[@edible0pig]

in the sequel, Verne makes it clear that Nemo is indian. A Sikh, as a matter of fact, and they tend to be fair skinned. as far as indians go.

[@edible0pig]

@Red Pillar not sure if I'd go as far as calling them caucasian

[@joviemaco1888]

Nemo was a Polish aristocrat, hence there is a scene in the book where there are portraits of Polish national heroes in his cabinet. Poland was under the Russian Empire back then, and he is a survivor from an unsuccessful Polish revolution against the Russians where he loses his family. There is actually also a scene in the book where he destroys a Russian ship sent after him. Jules Verne's family also had Polish roots. His publisher warned him in the last moment to do some correction in the book so as not to piss off the Russians because of the fragile political relations between Russia and France back then. Therefore, all the evidence of Captain Nemo's Polish identity and his hatred of the Russian Empire was concealed and then he becomes Indian raja.

[@charliedallachie3539]

Weird, I love seafood I wouldn’t stop eating....

[@JimBeamFiend53]

How exactly does one milk a sperm whale? Also what is Nemo doing to that beverage?

[@garyford99]

He is messing with the beverage so he can continue talking without food in his mouth.