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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 26 May 2019, 13:12:45
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As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice. :y
This week I have eaten Pollock in fish fingers, and Basa, which google tells me is a bottom-dwelling catfish from the Mekong delta that can grow up to 5 feet in length. :o
For Cod's sake what is going on. :)
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Brexit. :y :D
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As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice. :y
This week I have eaten Pollock in fish fingers, and Basa, which google tells me is a bottom-dwelling catfish from the Mekong delta that can grow up to 5 feet in length. :o
For Cod's sake what is going on. :)
Bottom feeder? I saw Basa too in Tesco yesterday. Thought it might be a new name for that awful Panga.
Try hake. Lovely fish.
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On forays into the Vietnamese countryside on a moped I've seen the fish farms where they raise Basa fish. :y
Forget the image of a little man with a straw hat fishing from his dugout on the Mekong River, the reality is vast man made ponds/lakes where they rear the fish. :) The fish farmers still wear straw hats though. ;D
I buy it from time to time as it's relatively cheap and quite tasty. :y
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Brexit. :y :D
This large fish is said to be found in deep icy European waters. Many in the North of England doubt that it even exists. :)
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A lot of the fish we now eat is questionably raised. Even Salmon.
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A lot of the fish we now eat is questionably raised. Even Especially Salmon.
FTFY Varche! ;)
There are lots of reports of Salmon farms in places like Norway, Scotland and Canada where the fish are diseased, full of parasites and kept in poor conditions. :-\
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A lot of the fish we now eat is questionably raised. Even Especially Salmon.
FTFY Varche! ;)
There are lots of reports of Salmon farms in places like Norway, Scotland and Canada where the fish are diseased, full of parasites and kept in poor conditions. :-\
Fish was on the menu tonight but now.......... :-\
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Brexit. :y :D
This large fish is said to be found in deep icy European waters. Many in the North of England doubt that it even exists. :)
Well loved by politicians of all persuasions so i hear. ;)
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As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice. :y
This week I have eaten Pollock in fish fingers, and Basa, which google tells me is a bottom-dwelling catfish from the Mekong delta that can grow up to 5 feet in length. :o
For Cod's sake what is going on. :)
I sympathise with you Opti as I will only eat cod fish fingers or in batter. But the sad fact is that cod has been overfished for decades, so the fishing industry has come up with viable alternatives.
Just think though, the experts are reckoning that in the future, to boost the world's food stocks in view of a possible, according to some projections, 11 billion population by 2100, we will be eating many insects that currently, in the west - not the east - we find rather disgusting.
So on Friday's Opti look forward to a plateful of locusts! :D :D :-* :-* :y
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As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice. :y
This week I have eaten Pollock in fish fingers, and Basa, which google tells me is a bottom-dwelling catfish from the Mekong delta that can grow up to 5 feet in length. :o
For Cod's sake what is going on. :)
I sympathise with you Opti as I will only eat cod fish fingers or in batter. But the sad fact is that cod has been overfished for decades, so the fishing industry has come up with viable alternatives.
Just think though, the experts are reckoning that in the future, to boost the world's food stocks in view of a possible, according to some projections, 11 billion population by 2100, we will be eating many insects that currently, in the west - not the east - we find rather disgusting.
So on Friday's Opti look forward to a plateful of locusts! :D :D :-* :-* :y
Probably don't taste too bad. Nice and crunchy. :y
By the year 2100 I will certainly, in common with everybody else on OOF, be past caring. :)... :-* :-* :-* :-*
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So on Friday's Opti look forward to a plateful of locusts! :D :D :-* :-* :y
During a night out with a mate in Kampala, Uganda a few years ago, as he got up to go to the bar he asked me if I wanted a packet of crisps, to which I replied "Yes please!" :y
He came back with a bag of deep fried locusts! :o
We were with a couple of Ugandan guys who urged me not to eat them as I would probably be sat on the loo for days, and although I got the feeling that they wouldn't have touched them with a bargepole the challenge was on! ::) :)
So I ate the whole bag and survived to tell the tale! :y
Washed down with a nice cold bottle of Nile Special they weren't too bad actually, a bit like the batter scraps we used to scrounge from the chippy. :)
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Oh, I remember batter scraps from my childhood: sadly, they don't do them any more - due to the Safety Elf, or people being more affluent? :(
Ron.
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On forays into the Vietnamese countryside on a moped I've seen the fish farms where they raise Basa fish. :y
Forget the image of a little man with a straw hat fishing from his dugout on the Mekong River, the reality is vast man made ponds/lakes where they rear the fish. :) The fish farmers still wear straw hats though. ;D
I buy it from time to time as it's relatively cheap and quite tasty. :y
You are a well travelled wurzel, but should gentleman of a certain age be foraying in the countryside garden.
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On forays into the Vietnamese countryside on a moped I've seen the fish farms where they raise Basa fish. :y
Forget the image of a little man with a straw hat fishing from his dugout on the Mekong River, the reality is vast man made ponds/lakes where they rear the fish. :) The fish farmers still wear straw hats though. ;D
I buy it from time to time as it's relatively cheap and quite tasty. :y
You are a well travelled wurzel, but should gentleman of a certain age be foraying in the countryside garden.
Forays into the garden should always be carried out even at your age BG! :y
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Oh, I remember batter scraps from my childhood: sadly, they don't do them any more - due to the Safety Elf, or people being more affluent? :(
Ron.
All of our chippies do scraps.
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We've just got back from the Wetherby Whaler, beautiful cod in a light, crispy batter. Then I had sticky toffee pudding with custard, can hardly move now.
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We've just got back from the Wetherby Whaler, beautiful cod in a light, crispy batter. Then I had sticky toffee pudding with custard, can hardly move now.
I'm jealous. I have always loved having fish and chips up North. Last time was at an award winning chippy, with resturant, in East Yorkshire, near Scarborough. Boy the cod was the best I have ever tasted and the chips were spot on! Mmmmm, I feel hungry!! :P :-* :-* :y
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We've just got back from the Wetherby Whaler, beautiful cod in a light, crispy batter. Then I had sticky toffee pudding with custard, can hardly move now.
I'm jealous. I have always loved having fish and chips up North. Last time was at an award winning chippy, with resturant, in East Yorkshire, near Scarborough. Boy the cod was the best I have ever tasted and the chips were spot on! Mmmmm, I feel hungry!! :P :-* :-* :y
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I've had the luck of eating fish n chips from all around the country, have been in weathby whaler in Wakefield,, found it over priced, but they do have overheads,, best fish n chips we're at a chip shop in Arbroth near the lifeboat station. Next would be in Brechin, and for pie n chips chippy in Lowton near Wigan.
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As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice. :y
This week I have eaten Pollock in fish fingers, and Basa, which google tells me is a bottom-dwelling catfish from the Mekong delta that can grow up to 5 feet in length. :o
For Cod's sake what is going on. :)
I sympathise with you Opti as I will only eat cod fish fingers or in batter. But the sad fact is that cod has been overfished for decades, so the fishing industry has come up with viable alternatives.
Just think though, the experts are reckoning that in the future, to boost the world's food stocks in view of a possible, according to some projections, 11 billion population by 2100, we will be eating many insects that currently, in the west - not the east - we find rather disgusting.
So on Friday's Opti look forward to a plateful of locusts! :D :D :-* :-* :y
We have plenty of insects to go round, there are roughly six ton to every person on earth apparently :o oh and I love Hake.
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..... Next would be in Brechin, and for pie n chips chippy in Lowton near Wigan.
They only eat pies in Wigan ::) ::)
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The much-vaunted Harry Ramsden chain of chippies was a disappointment, and over-priced: at least, the one in Bournemouth was.
If I must go up north, I would choose the chippy in Matlock opposite the park. I cannot remembet its name, but the walls were adorned with Bamforth comic postcards, so you also get a good laugh when you eat!
The Rolls-Royce of chippies has to be Emiles, at the Barbican, just outside Looe in Cornwall - divine!!! :y
Ron.
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There are decent fish and chips up and down the country. The queues outside The Magpie in Whitby can stretch the full length of the street and people will wait for up to two hours to be seated. I certainly would not wait that long, no matter how good they are.
Big Griff...concerning the Wetherby Whaler in Wakey.......it depends what you mean by overpriced. We went to the restaurant, not the takeaway (there is a marked difference) and paid £47 for fish and chips for three, with bread and butter and a pot of tea each, and three puddings. Slightly more than macdonalds, but certainly less than a bowl of soggy pasta at Jaime Olivers or the like. I guess it depends on whether your willing to pay for good food with good service or want proper food at greasy spoon prices.
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Pollocks to all this. Mine's a steak. :y
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There are decent fish and chips up and down the country. ....
But mostly up the country ..... ::)
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Enjoyed my cod'n'chips on the sea front in Hornsea on Saturday-why do they always seem to taste better at the coast than they do further inland?
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TB's Rule No 1.
Never eat stuff that comes from the sea. The number of times I've pissed in the sea should put anyone off, and I am one of 7bn. I've also been known to crap in the sea.
Enjoy.
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Pollocks to all this. Mine's a steak. :y
She did me a fantastic steak the other night. No idea why it was sooooo good, esp as it came from Tesco :o
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Pollocks to all this. Mine's a steak. :y
She did me a fantastic steak the other night. No idea why it was sooooo good, esp as it came from Tesco :o
Had a great one off the barbecue the other night. :y
Went out for a meal last night and everything on the menu was fish apart from the Lamb and the Vegan / rabbit food option. Lamb came with anchovies. :(
Luckily, they were happy to leave that sh1te off mine, otherwise I'd have removed myself from the premises pretty sharpish. ;D
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Pollocks to all this. Mine's a steak. :y
She did me a fantastic steak the other night. No idea why it was sooooo good, esp as it came from Tesco :o
Had a great one off the barbecue the other night. :y
Went out for a meal last night and everything on the menu was fish apart from the Lamb and the Vegan / rabbit food option. Lamb came with anchovies. :(
Luckily, they were happy to leave that sh1te off mine, otherwise I'd have removed myself from the premises pretty sharpish. ;D
Sounds like the sort of place where the food is served on a log or Marley roof tile. ::) ;D
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Pollocks to all this. Mine's a steak. :y
She did me a fantastic steak the other night. No idea why it was sooooo good, esp as it came from Tesco :o
Had a great one off the barbecue the other night. :y
Went out for a meal last night and everything on the menu was fish apart from the Lamb and the Vegan / rabbit food option. Lamb came with anchovies. :(
Luckily, they were happy to leave that sh1te off mine, otherwise I'd have removed myself from the premises pretty sharpish. ;D
Sounds like the sort of place where the food is served on a log or Marley roof tile. ::) ;D
No it was proper plates, silverware, the works. Had the roof tile experience in Crewkerne on Friday. Half of it ended up on the table cloth. ::)
I thought roof tiles hadn't been invented in Dorset yet? ;)
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SWMBO had a overpriced burger at a pub near Northampton about three years ago. That came on a piece of floorboard and was tasteless rubbish. Some guy up at the bar took umbridge at her comments regarding the quality of the meal until he was politely told to mind his own business. Turned out he was the "chefs" dad. ;D Needless to say we haven,t been back. ;)
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Pollocks to all this. Mine's a steak. :y
She did me a fantastic steak the other night. No idea why it was sooooo good, esp as it came from Tesco :o
Had a great one off the barbecue the other night. :y
Went out for a meal last night and everything on the menu was fish apart from the Lamb and the Vegan / rabbit food option. Lamb came with anchovies. :(
Luckily, they were happy to leave that sh1te off mine, otherwise I'd have removed myself from the premises pretty sharpish. ;D
Sounds like the sort of place where the food is served on a log or Marley roof tile. ::) ;D
No it was proper plates, silverware, the works. Had the roof tile experience in Crewkerne on Friday. Half of it ended up on the table cloth. ::)
I thought roof tiles hadn't been invented in Dorset yet? ;)
Roof tiles are shipped in for grockles. :)
Proper people eat soup off of thatch! :y
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Proper people eat soup off of thatch! :y
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I very nearly wished I was wearing those lady pants they advertise on the telly for weak bladders, ya bastid.
What is the reason for this current trend of using anything but plates? Stupid bloody idea.
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Fish'n'chips always tasted better when eaten from the newspaper they were wrapped in :y