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Overview
Pirates won't care if they ever see land again when they're presented with a positively perfect pirate party featuring some tasty pirate food. Don't fret, you don't have to scour the seven seas to bring back the food booty. There is a treasure trove of pirate themed party foods from which to choose.
Considerations
To get the full kick out of the food selection, hook up little signs to place near each serving dish. Use ragged bits of cardboard and a black marker to label the feast the pirates are about to eat. The signs can be placed in front of the dish or bowl and even include little drawings of skulls and crossbones or other pirate themed illustrations.
Seaweed Stew
Cook up a dish of green spinach noodles. Linguine works well, as do spiral noodles. For best results, mix a batch of several green types together. Add a dash of lemon, chopped cilantro and sliced almonds or walnuts. Label your seawood stew, adding a line about having rocks in it, if you choose to add nuts.
Albatross Limbs
No seafaring party would be complete without eating that dang albatross. Known for hanging around the necks of seafaring guys as an omen of gloom and doom, it only makes sense to devour these critters. Frozen chicken wings work well as albatross parts. Hook up a selection of fried and hot and spicy wings and leg pieces.
Eel Links
Steam or boil hot dogs and slice them up into bite-sized pieces. Present them next to a plate of melba toast, which are labeled bark wads, and you've got yourself an instant appetizer. Use colored toothpicks to add a little flair. Label the mustard and ketchup yellow puffer fish juice and crimson whale oil, respectively.
Goldfish
Goldfish crackers are a perfect snack for a pirate's palate. Since they are already small, tasty and shaped like fish, you don't even have to doctor them at all to make them fit the menu. These could probably go without a label unless you wanted to describe how you had to dangle off the side of a sea cliff to net them. Serve out of a low, shallow goldfish bowl for best results.
Desserts can also be enhanced by another fishbowl full of those red, chewy Swedish fish candies.
