Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/ma...atfish-t.html?
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>>
>> October 12, 2008
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>> NYT "Magazine": The Food Issue
>>
>> A Catfish by Any Other Name
>
> <snip small book>
>
> Blinky loves basa. I've mentioned it in here more than once, calling
> it the best deal in town on tasty fish (the fillets I had last
> weekend were $4.49US per pound; they were $3.99 for ages, but people
> seem to be discovering them). I couldn't make it through that entire
> article, but
> I read somewhere a while back that it's called basa here because when
> it first started being imported it was called "Vietnamese catfish"
> and the US catfish industry went a-whining to Uncle and got that name
> banned. Call it what you will, it's yummy.


I saw "Basa" at the grocery store the other day and it sure wasn't cheap.
Hell, farm raised U.S. catfish (and it's farm raised all around west TN, AR
and MS) isn't cheap anymore; it hasn't been for quite a while. When it
starts showing up on the menus of restaurants topped with cream sauces,
that's when the price goes up. Remember when no one had ever heard of
Tilapia? LOL

Jill