Gilly -
Why is it weird to eat calamari? Squid is delicious ... don't think I've met a lot of people who don't like it.
I will say that I don't like Atlantic mackeral. Maybe because of the strong oily taste of the red meat, maybe because I've spent a lot of time on boats and beaches cutting up putrified macks for chunk baits. I just won't touch it anymore. I'll take a nice piece of the milder Spanish Mackeral sashimi - if there's a hot cup of sake lying around.
Silversides? Heck, you'll see them offered in Chinatown supermarkets. I know a lot of eyetalian folk in the NY area who fry them up whole in olive oil and garlic. Yum.
Eels of all sizes have long been a delicacy in European and Asian cultures. I don't eat them (and crabs) any more because of their high cholesterol content.
I've seen people eat sand eels
, but have yet to witness someone happily slurp down some sand or bloodworms or dig into a mossbunker filet.
