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"limey" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" wrote in message >
>> "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
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>>>> 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.
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>> Dora.. what is a boonie?
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> Hi, Ophelia! It's a slang short form of "boondocks", which MW defines as;
> 1. a jungle or a wild, heavily wooded area; wilderness.
> 2. Any remote rural or provincial region; hinterland.
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> Item 2 covers where I am, although I sometimes I feel like I'm living in a
> jungle!
Thanks Dora  )
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