Barbecue Mermaid

I've built a small reputation for coming up with rather silly questions some of those being; "what would you do if you found out your husband of 3 years was an alien?" or "would you charge the government for your services if you were a super hero?". Recently i've been asking my friends if they would eat a mermaid and you would be surprised at the number of people that would do it if they were hungry. What's even stranger is that the funniest response i've got from this question was from a vegetarian friend of mine called Kurt. This is the conversation we had at work:

Kev: Do you like fish Kurt?
Kurt: No...yes...well i don't eat fish but they are nice animals.
Kev: Why don't you eat fish?
Kurt: I don't eat all types of meat. I'm vegetarian.
Kev: is it from religious reasons or do you not like the taste of it or are you an animal lover?
Kurt: animal lover, i think it's wrong to kill all animals.
Kev:(smiling) You'd love it in Kenya then. Coz we really love animals...especially with some salt.

Kev: Anyhoo, if the water crisis in WA deteriorated beyond repair and you were starving, you walk along the beach and meet a mermaid that dies in your arms, would you eat the fish part?
Kurt: (laughing) What the hell?
Kev: Seriously. IT'S FISH and not only that but it's fresh fish coz the mermaid just died.
Kurt: It's raw.
Kev: You don't like sushi? Fine there's a sudden bolt of lightening that strikes a tree near you and you have fire.

Kurt: i still wouldn't eat it. I don't eat meat.
Kev: but you're starving! i.e. eat the fish or die.
Kurt: i guess if i'm starving i'd eat the whole thing. including the human part.
Kev: (laughing) Thought so, YOU MONSTER. (now that i had got the response i wanted i change the subject) What do mermaids eat though?
Kurt: Kev, mermaid's don't exist.
Kev: Yeah but if they did what would they eat? I mean if they eat fish it's half cannibalism and if they eat humans it's also half cannibalism? What did they eat in "The Little Mermaid"?

Kurt: maybe they are vegetarian?
Kev: Not everyone's vegetarian Kurt, just you are.
Kurt: (laughing)they probably eat seaweed of some type of sea vegetable. Maybe when some ship carrying livestock hits an iceberg they celebrate by eating the cows that fall into the water.
Kev: Probably. They guy who finds them calls all his pals over for a barbecue. I wonder how they'd barbecue it under water though...