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Default Tilapia; what's it like?

On Mar 6, 1:41*pm, Portland > wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2:21*pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
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> > On Mar 6, 11:19*am, Portland > wrote:

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> > > What is Tilapia like? *I'm not a big fish eater, but they sell them
> > > from a tank at the nearby supermarket, and I was thinking of giving
> > > them a try. *So they shouldn't, since they're so fresh, they shouldn't
> > > taste fishy at all?

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> >http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=16...bsrc=tilapia&g...

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> That's an informative site. *I also found this:http://fishcooking.about..com/od/mee.../p/tilapia.htm
>
> This is what I might like about this fish: (Nice and boring; doesn't
> taste like fish.)
> One thing I don't like about tuna is it's richness. *I must be
> allergic to it or something, because I don't feel very well after I
> eat a tuna steak.
> {
> What does tilapia taste like? Well...not much. It is very lean, very
> white and very high in protein. And it has almost no flavor of its
> own. Personally, I find it boring. Give me a rich, fatty tuna or even
> an anchovy any day. Tilapia doesn't "taste like fish," which is why it
> is so popular in the United States.
>

I love it. It's what's for dinner, salted, peppered, dredged in corn
meal and fried in peanut oil with fresh lemons to squeeze on.

--Bryan