On 2008-11-23, SteveB <toquerville@zionvistas> wrote:

> considering this was done on a dare and that I grew up with a very
> negative view of these fish. You folks on the mainland don't have this
> handicap - the best I can say about this is that tilapia is not too
> awful and somewhat less repulsive than catfish. :-)

All total nonsense. Talapia and catfish and orange roughy all have the same
basic physiology, one that doesn't keep whatever they feed on in the system
as some sort of dirty lurking toxin. Mainland Americans attach this same
stigma to carp, a fish revered in the orient. It's all bullshit.

Hopefully, we will overcome this stupid bias and start eating carp. Silver
carp in the Mississippi-Missouri river basin, which have become an
ecological nightmare as well as a serious safety hazard, will finally find
it's way to US dinner tables and will then, no doubt, be on the brink of
extinction within a decade.

nb