notbob wrote:
> 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.

You have good points. I too hope the folks here lose their ridiculous
prejudices and start making all those Ala Wai tilapia extinct soon.
Hopefully, they won't miss my contribution to the cause too much. :-)


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> nb