Omelet > wrote in
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>>
>> *Every* time, no exception, that I go to buy prawns, I ask for a
>> taste first. If they don't want to give me a taste, I don't buy.
>>
>> *Every* batch of prawns is different.
>
> You eat raw prawns???


LOL!!!


Most of the prawns we buy here are already cooked.


But you knew that..... go back to driving your Mac Truck!!



>
> With fish, I ALWAYS ask for a smell is all.


I can see, before I have to smell.

99% of the time, I buy whole fish and have them clean and fillet it in
front of me.


(I'm sick of getting snapper spikes stuck in my finger joints!!!)


>
>>
>> From the area they are caught in, to the way they are cooked.
>>
>> I've had some that are as sweet as honey...... and the next day the
>> same sized prawns are as salty as anchovies...... because they were a
>> different batch, off a different boat, cooked differently.
>
> I've had to give up on scallops. :-(
> That damned preservative they use on them is as bitter as aloe.


Bugger!!

But then, the rule of thumb applies......... if you live in a desert,
don't buy seafood!!



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

You will travel through the valley of rejection;
you will reside in the land of morning mists...and you will find your
home,
though it will not be where you left it.