In article >, keh6444
@ana.yahoo.com says...
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> "Portland" > wrote in message
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> On Mar 6, 3:27 pm, Bryan > wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> > > >http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=16...bsrc=tilapia&g...
> >
> > > That's an informative site. I also found
> > > this:http://fishcooking.about.com/od/meet.../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
>
> Sounds excellent. I'll omit the salt though; health reasons. Maybe
> black cracked peppercorn and a paprika rub? Blacken it somewhat?
> I don't know how much mercury it contains. One site I visited says
> that it can be eaten safely 4 times per week.
> >
> >
> I believe Tilapia is a freshwater fish farmed in salt water. If any have a
> food allergy to either fresh or salt water fish tilapia should probably be
> avoided. I asked an allergist about this once about cross sensitivity and
> she didn't think you could know other than trying it. The problem is that
> you can get angioneurotic oedema, a life threatening allergic response.
> Kent

It is a fish that is used as a filter for farms in the mid-west where
white bass (I think) are raised in ponds. Small Talapia is put in with
the bigger fish to clean the waste from the bigger fish. As the Talapia
grow bigger they are culled out of the ponds and sold for people food...
I suppose it's all sanitary and such, but some folks get queezy when
they realize what the fish are really used for before they are sold to
market...