"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "limey" > wrote in message
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>> "Charles Gifford" wrote in message >
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>>> "aem" wrote in message
>>> >> But that farm-raised stuff is bad news.
>>>> Even if they claim to have stopped using antibiotics and hormones, the
>>>> fish is kept penned where the water is shallow and warmer, resulting in
>>>> mushy flesh from lack of enough exercise and less flavor from less fat.
>>>> They add coloring to the food near the end of the growing cycle, for
>>>> chissakes, to make it look better!
>>>>
>>>> -aem
>>>
>>> You got that right! I love wild Atlantic salmon. The farmed stuff isn't
>>> even
>>> close. It is nasty.
>>>
>>> Charlie
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>> I know, I know. (sigh) - but what to do when the farm-raised is the only
>> game in town and you have a hankering for salmon? I agree it's bland
>> and mushy. As I see it, I need to move to the West coast, preferably in
>> the Seattle area - or to Alaska, where I can catch my own. Confound my
>> neighbour, who went from Maryland to Alaska in order to go salmon fishing
>> and gave me my longing for the "real thing" ;-( I *never* see it in
>> the markets here, but then I'm in the boonies.
>
> Dora.. what is a boonie?
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It means out in the middle of nowhere... out in the country...several miles
from a town/city.

Does that help?

Cyndi