On 3/8/2011 9:40 AM, Bryan wrote:
> On Mar 7, 11:12 pm, > wrote:
>> On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:00:34 -0500, James Silverton
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>>> On 3/7/2011 2:27 PM, sf wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:56:11 -0800 (PST), >
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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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>>>>> I think they taste like dirt...
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>>>> Some people here think catfish and beets taste like dirt too. The
>>>> rest of us don't.
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>>> Judging by what restaurants get away with selling, a majority ("the rest
>>> of us", perhaps) does not know what fresh fish tastes like :-)
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>> Why do we have to quibble over terminology? You have A, B, C... and
>> the rest of the alphabet. Apply it to what I said.
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> Seems to me that the freshest fish is that which is filleted and flash
> frozen within hours of being harvested.
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> --Bryan
Fresh ocean fish has special taste that some might say is reminiscent of
iodine but it goes fairly quickly. Sometimes, fish frozen at sea is
prepared sufficiently fast to retain the taste but not very often.
Strangely enough, the fish fillets served in a large government
cafeteria in DC often tasted fresh.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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