Fish.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice.

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.

For Cod's sake what is going on.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Brexit. 

[Varche]

As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice.

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.

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.

[Sir Tigger KC]

On forays into the Vietnamese countryside on a moped I've seen the fish farms where they raise Basa fish. 

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. 

I buy it from time to time as it's relatively cheap and quite tasty. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Brexit. 

This large fish is said to be found in deep icy European waters. Many in the North of England doubt that it even exists.

[Varche]

A lot of the fish we now eat is questionably raised. Even Salmon.

[Sir Tigger KC]

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.    

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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..........

[ronnyd]

Brexit. 

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.

[Lizzie Zoom]

As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice.

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.

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!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

As a boy 'fish on Friday' would mean a choice between cod, haddock, or possibly plaice.

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.

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!

Probably don't taste too bad. Nice and crunchy.

By the year 2100 I will certainly, in common with everybody else on OOF, be past caring. ...

[Sir Tigger KC]

So on Friday's Opti look forward to a plateful of locusts!

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!" 

He came back with a bag of deep fried locusts!   

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! 

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. 

[Bigron]

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.

[biggriffin]

On forays into the Vietnamese countryside on a moped I've seen the fish farms where they raise Basa fish. 

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. 

I buy it from time to time as it's relatively cheap and quite tasty. 

You are a well travelled wurzel, but should gentleman of a certain age be foraying in the countryside garden.

[Sir Tigger KC]

On forays into the Vietnamese countryside on a moped I've seen the fish farms where they raise Basa fish. 

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. 

I buy it from time to time as it's relatively cheap and quite tasty. 

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!