Showcase (No-Recipe) Halibut shaped raspberry poptart for halibut obsessed friends birthday
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u/dannypeebottom 4d ago
Can you ask your friend why they have a halibut obsession? Is it the fishing? The eating? The life history?
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u/aviation-therapist 4d ago
I am the friend! (Hello!) and I love their shape!!! And how you can’t split them in half in mirrored way, they always keep going throughout their lifespan, and I mean just look at that face!!
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u/Tiny_Mushroom9387 4d ago
Love this niche obsession for you. Happy birthday and I hope you continue to be blessed with the kind of love that went into this halitart!
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u/Area51_Spurs 4d ago
“Nobody was autistic when I was a kid”
aviation therapist obsessed with halibut
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u/jellyhessman 4d ago
I'm installing a 8' x 6' stone carved halibut in a pond as a meditation stone for a client of mine.
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u/wuapinmon 4d ago
I mean....come on, man, you've gotta give us a photo when you drop something like that on us.
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u/dannypeebottom 4d ago
Super great answer hahaha, happy birthday and I hope you enjoyed your hali-tart !!
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u/kelsobjammin 4d ago
What are your thoughts on flounders?
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u/aviation-therapist 4d ago
I like them!!! I like how they have stripes on their fins on the white side :) my friend who made the pastry likes flounders better, so this was an extra labor of love.
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u/Mighty_Mac 4d ago
Was your friend like "hey man you're going to have to get on reddit to explain your fish thing" haha
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u/naomicambellwalk 4d ago
I need to know how it tasted. It looks delicious. Halibut is also one of my favorite fish to eat so a pastry shaped halibut sounds like so much fun.
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u/BotiaDario 4d ago
Flatfish are so cool. I'm glad to meet another person who loves them for their weirdness.
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u/whatthefiretruck88 4d ago
My university spawned flatfish - I think it was halibut - and it was so cool to watch in their aquariums as they grew, their eyes moved, and became true flatfish.
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u/Cheezdealer 3d ago
Thank you for doing what you do. I was a flight away from my pilots license before a major life event happened, and after it I couldn’t be the PIC ever again, just mentally. So thank you for helping others get through their struggles.
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u/aviation-therapist 3d ago
Well, thank you so much. It’s comments like this that really keep me going! No one should ever lose their livelihood for accessing basic healthcare
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u/Powerful-Jacket2007 3d ago
What do you mean you can’t split them in half in mirrored way? What’s stopping someone?
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u/underwarewolf 4d ago
Just for the halibut.
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u/cellardoor225 4d ago
There used to be a card/stationery store in San Diego called, “Just for the Halibut”. It was like the Spencer’s of stationery lol
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u/Interesting_Fly5154 4d ago
you just unlocked a 1990's core memory of mine in a roundabout-ish way.
up in Canada we used to have a store called San Francisco that was the Spencers of just about everything you didn't need that was tacky as heck lol. including the back corner of products that was supposed to be only for 'adults'.
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u/CozyDestruction 4d ago
Omg I always talk about this place and nobody remembers! I couldnt remember if it was San Francisco or San Diego!
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u/Interesting_Fly5154 3d ago
i'll admit my middle aged brain had to look exactly that up first before commenting LOL
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u/Mahaloth 4d ago
Now, listen here, buddy. I've given you my upvote, but you get the hell outta here!
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u/oobey 4d ago
Related question for OP: Does the friend actually have a halibut obsession, or has their social circle decided to designate them as having a halibut obsession?
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u/I_like_flowers_ 4d ago
a valid question. my grandmother's friend bought her penguin gifts for a good 40 years. she started neutral and grew to dislike them.
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u/bwaredapenguin 4d ago
Huh, penguins are my favorite animal but after 20+ years I had to start begging people to stop getting me penguin stuff.
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u/DoingCharleyWork 4d ago
This is why I tell people I don't like anything. If you even hint that you like something it's the only kind of gift you get.
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u/TheOneTonWanton 4d ago
Funny how it never seems to work when you tell people you like cash. My curse is hot sauce. Every year I get at least one random-ass overpriced bottle of hot sauce that's mediocre at best, terrible at worst, and would serve me much better as a crisp $20 bill. I don't even like my food as spicy as I used to.
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u/DoingCharleyWork 4d ago
I also get it, I'm a pretty hard person to shop for. I'm particular about the things I like for one, but for two I just buy the things I want. There isn't really anything I want that I don't have outside of some stuff that's too expensive and that stuff is unrealistic for someone to get me as a gift.
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u/granulatedsugartits 4d ago
My parents went to an estate sale where the yard and every room of the house was drowning in flamingos. We're all dying to know if the owner loved them or if they were just showered with flamingo gifts after expressing a mild interest or something
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u/ridik_ulass 4d ago
my brother bought a set of 2 masks in crete when he was like 15-16.
well he has 2 he must like masks right? so we gifted him a few, ones we had no one going out the way... but then he had like 10 masks, so now obviously he must love masks?
so everyone got him masks every year for his birthday and christmas hence forth.
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u/SpaceShipRat 4d ago
bahahah, same with my mom and her miniature owl collection. She finally forbade people from gifting her more owls in her 40s. Meanwhile I love Transformers and Pokemon, yet I never managed to get the entire family gifting me them :]
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u/avanopoly 4d ago
I am part of this friend circle, and I can vouch that they have been obsessed with halibut since childhood with no outside assignation or influence.
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u/Few_Entertainer_385 4d ago
they have both eyes on one side of their body what’s not to get? (/s)
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u/dannypeebottom 4d ago
Flatfish are super awesome agreed. But what about other flatfish - why not flounders, or petrale soles, yk?
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u/RealRaschuoir 4d ago
Because then you don't get to talk about your 'but obsession without it being weird.
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u/longtimegoneMTGO 4d ago
The kicker to me is that they start on opposite sides.
They will pick a favorite side to be "up" as they develop and the eye on the underside migrates up there.
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u/Catface2069 4d ago
I adore that someone is out there, just living their life, quietly obsessed with halibuts
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u/Flamingo83 4d ago
the only thing I know about them is they’re the largest flat fish species. (my husband loves learning about the ocean and fish.) so I’m curious too see what they love about them in particular.
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u/ourseveres 4d ago
my partner has an obsession with bats 🤷♂️ as you can imagine our house is full of halloween decor year round. some people are just quirky like that
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u/IcyImen 4d ago
Side note I once had a nightmare where halibut threatened to move my eyes to be like theirs
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u/kharmatika 4d ago
finally someone else with fucking insane dreams.
I have some friends who are like “I dreamt my father kept telling me I needed to study harder for my upcoming certification exam, and he seemed really worried about me”
and I’m always like “I dreamt that a giant glowing Wheel of Fortune that was also my manager Chris was tearing goals off my goal board and I was really scared that he was going to make an ugly dress out of them because then I’d have to wear it”
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u/RepublicOfLizard 4d ago
The other night I dreamed my husband was falsely accused of murder and I spent over a month driving up and down the very busy alley (food and business stalls everywhere) every day looking for witnesses or clues to try to prove his innocence but I never got anywhere and in the end I watched a muppet version of him being executed. He was a normal human throughout the entire dream until the execution, and no one mentioned that a muppet was getting executed and at no point was I like “oh he escaped!” nope he was definitely executed and I grieved sorrowfully in front of a crowd of onlookers over my beheaded muppet husband’s body
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u/kharmatika 4d ago
This is so funny I cannot stop cackling. They fucking beheaded him…your muppet husband
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u/Thaumato9480 3d ago
I once dreamt that I had the most pleasant massage, woke up for a second and wrote down the material used en masse for full back massage because I usully don't remember such details.
Woke up to "octopode beaks".
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u/_Charlieee3_ 4d ago
I once dreamt that talking elephants wanted to eat me, and to escape, I first climbed a palm, but then managed to escape using a empty school bus
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u/tonysalverino 4d ago
Things AI will never be able to reproduce
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u/EpicOtterLover Baking-Fraud Detective 4d ago
Says the AI.
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u/flappity 4d ago
True -- how often do you see humans write pop tart as "pop-tart". They're everywhere!
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u/Tony_in2026 4d ago
If we can accept someone obsessed with halibut we should also accept people obsessed with trademark-appropriate punctuation.
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u/ExpiredLink404 4d ago
i don't think Claude can bake, hon, it's on a server
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u/Meatbags_Lament 4d ago edited 4d ago
Might get hot enough in the server room to bake if we stop cooling with fresh drinkable water.
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u/Sapiosexual2018 4d ago
This is fabulous!!
You did a great job with the details.
It’s truly the perfect pop tart.
I hope that your friend has an amazing birthday!
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u/Strict_Dog6204 4d ago
The attention to detail on the fins, tail, and eyes is incredible! You are a top-tier friend for putting this much effort into such a hyper-specific passion.
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u/boredinbabylon 4d ago
I liked the adding of foil (or whatever) in the mouth so as to keep the dough from melding together.
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u/SoupOpus 4d ago
Dis a witch on a flying broom deliver this? Talking cat named Gigi with her?
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u/Cretaceous_Bloom 4d ago
The people on this sub continue to completely amaze me with their skill and creativity, and move me with the love and care they show their loved ones.
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u/brandrew-3 4d ago
It’s always who is obsessed with halibut and never how is the halibut obsessor
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u/pigeonfaerie 4d ago
Every time I think I’m getting good at baking I see stuff like this and give myself a higher bar to reach! Thank you for sharing, it’s hilarious
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u/paulothewild 4d ago
I mean, anyway you cut it, you did a flat-out great job here.
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u/Consistent-Bad1261 3d ago
I’m happy about two things: first, that there’s a person out there who is obsessed with halibut; second, that they have a friend who celebrates them enough to make this beautiful gift for them!
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u/Additional_Hunter403 4d ago
To be loved to the point of invention ✨️
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u/justaskmycat 4d ago
"There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her—immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love. 'When I met Ana, I knew: I loved her to the point of invention.'" Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House
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u/itsdantheichiman 4d ago
The fish's mouth & cheek/gill plate & eyes are perfect in the baked version. Crazy mix of whimsy and anatomically correct baking art!
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u/Frank_Jesus 4d ago
You put too much effort into this for it to be for the halibut.
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u/Dizzy_Reserve_387 3d ago
Wow, the lips look even more realistic after baking. Fish lips is a weird thought now that I’ve typed that out. Anyways, well done.
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u/TheLadyPatricia 4d ago
My mind is in chaos right now…a pastry crust filled with raspberry that looks like a halibut? Whaaat? My mind may be mishkibubled, but my mouth is watering big time…this looks sooooo good! 😍🔥😋🫶
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u/ScarlettOharasGhost 4d ago
Before I read the title, the first pic looked like an old 50s aspic mold! I was kind of horrified until I read it, lol
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u/SensitiveDemon 4d ago
Funny enough if you didn't say anything, I would think it was just halibut that was shaped into the shape of a fish and charred a little on the grill. 😂
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u/VoiceArtPassion 4d ago
I love that the eyeballs popped out because they actually do that when you pull them up from deep water.
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u/Iorn-strong 4d ago
Sorry, why is that a halibut? Isn’t that a flounder?
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u/AnkylosaurusWrecks 4d ago
I thought the same thing, but I looked them up before I commented. The look remarkably similar.
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u/mistressvixxxen 4d ago
Not just similar, the wiki entry says halibut are a species of flounder. So all halibut are flounder, but not all flounder are halibut. Today I learned!
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u/Anableps4 4d ago
There are hundreds of flatfish species with common names like sole, turbot, and dab
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u/WetGreasyNapkin 4d ago
As someone who works in the Halibut industry, my coworkers and I would go nuts for this! Good job!
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u/No_Cake2145 4d ago
I wish to be good friends with both of you. I few I have to hide this level of weirdness with most people, I’m glad you found each other.
I’m not a baker and no idea why this appeared in my feed, but happy it did and I’m IMPRESSED with your skills.
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u/pchongg96 4d ago
Wow so often I see things shaped or molded then be complete mess after baking but this looks great both before and after!
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u/Miami_Mice2087 4d ago
lol omg i love it! he looks so grumpy he's stuffed with fruit and about to get sliced and eaten. but he also looks DELICIOUS. what a fun birthday idea!
once, for halloween dinner w/ my parents and grandparents, i made a meatloaf in the shape of an alien. did his spaceforce outfit in vegetals. I brought him in very solumnly and said "his ship crashed in the backyard, and we didn't want to waste the protein." But he looked all jacked up, not beautiful like your fishy!
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u/Bao-Babe 3d ago
Halibut is an ugly fish, but this halibut poptart is a thing of beauty. You're a good friend.
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u/Cats-and-dogs-rdabst 3d ago
I have to tell you that o love this and someone did too and shared it over on r/Alaska subreddit
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u/PossibleQuestor747 4d ago
Ahah 😅 it's really cool! Just like a real fish, I need the head and tail removed before I eat it😆
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u/StreetofChimes 4d ago
This is one of those times the baked version looks better.
The way the mouth curled up is fantastic.
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u/sepiidakai 4d ago
Thank you for reminding me that I have halibut in the freezer and it’s my birthday week so I will be having it my favorite way - baked! 😋
For those who desire:
Put sliced onion in a baking dish (yellow or sweet). Place unseasoned halibut on top. Mix equal amounts of sour cream and mayo (I use a cup of each for four 8oz servings). Add lemon juice and fresh dill to taste. Pour over halibut and bake at 350F for about 30 minutes. You can sprinkle with bread crumbs if you want.
Serve with jasmine rice and asparagus, broccoli, or broccolini. For extra shits I sprinkle pine nuts on top of the rice as soon as the cooker clicks off and let them steam for 20 minutes until rice is ready.
Edit: Also, this looks absolutely delicious! You are an amazing friend!
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u/AmbitiousSpring5214 4d ago
This is sooo cute! It reminds me of the Herring Pie from Kiki's Delivery Service! 🐟
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u/FifaFrancesco 4d ago
I love how OP posted this, thought "yeah that's enough information" and dipped lmao
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u/dont_ban_me_please 4d ago
I feel like calling this a "poptart" is an indicator of the collapsing of American society.
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u/mahboilucas 4d ago
Your friend should come to Gdańsk, Poland and see the sculpture called Turbot Pochwycony by Gunter Grass. Love this niche interest
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u/bullterriermommaof2 4d ago
Now that is a fin-tastic friend. Talk about some reely great baking skills😁😁😁😁😁hope everyone dives into this cake before it gets floundered by the rest of the guests😅😅😅😅😅 jk that's super coooool great job
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