"notbob" > wrote in message
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> 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

I have eaten carp from flowing clear water, and it was good. I also had
tilapia with sautéed shrimp sauce this evening, and that was good, too.
Catfish is delicious, and look what they eat.
Where would the Jewish nation be without gefiltefish? (sp?)
STeve