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So if it's a fish from china it will have slanty eyes.. I get it.. I'll keep a look out. But I will not check the prawns. Too many eyes in one kilo. Nor will I check sardines either, I know they are local. The lady sardines have massive arses.. Remember;)

(Sorry, you were wrong with the guess but you did get a word right in my job description)... 'Job' as in my 'job' is.....:rofl:

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Well that's your problem, you buy fish from Mercadona. No wonder its rubbish! :rofl:

Fish should never be bought because it is cheap. Fresh and local fish is always better and there are loads of places why you can buy and eat it.

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Did you not read what I posted...as usual! I said perhaps I don't eat fish. Just because I see the fish doesn't mean I am buying the frigging crap:huh:

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How do you know it doesn't taste nicer than freshly caught local fish then..??
(You only said 'perhaps' so people can only guess that you might eat fish)

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Well again I seem to be the odd one out here.

I don't eat much fresh fish and don't like shellfish, so can't really comment on that, other to say that the hake I had from Mercadona was really nice.

However, people are always commenting on the quality and taste of tomatoes. TBH I think they are tasteless and watery. And these are fresh ones that our neighbours grow! (They are those huge ones, the smaller ones are slightly more tasty).

Fresh fruit and veg in general I find to be of poor quality and on the whole average. And I DO eat a lot of fresh fruit and veg.

Again - I sem to live in a different place to everyone else!

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When I was left in charge of the kitchen yesterday while she went off on yet another shopping spree to faraway places, Elche, this time; I got some fresh cod from Mercadona and put on my chef’s hat.

I greased the large tray with expensive olive oil, inserted the said cut-up cod, added onions, peppers, tomatoes, leeks, broccoli and cauliflower (all from Mercadona), covered the lot with foil, stuck it in the oven and went for a long walk.

I keep forgetting the word, it’s not mesmerised but close to it, not metamorphic either, but it’s when your cooking produces something that looks like slush, that’s what I came back to. It did smell nice, but I soon gave up trying to find something without lethal cod bones.

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It metamorphosed into something that looked like slush!

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:lol::lol: You are a tease I was waiting for the bottom line of how nice it was!

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That's the very reason panga has been so popular, why it has become the most eaten fish in Spain, simply because it's cheap. (En septiembre habían llegado 483.000 toneladas de panga al mercado español, ) That's a lot of fish! :) It might not be for you, but obviously many thousands of Spanish are eating it. And I bet many others are in restaurants without realising it.

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What I have noticed is that although there has been less people around off-season for the past few years the shops haven't changed the amount of fresh stuff. If you happen to be there when newly arrived then the potatoes and veg are OK. As they aren't selling as much it lingers ....soft sprouting potaoes, Broccoli gone to seed etc. Sometimes sort amongst the fruit and all little black flies pop out!

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Hey! This is sort of thing i moved to spain for! You would be advised to turn your speakers up loud and this lasts for 5 or so mins. Ejoy!

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Was that the finale of Franco's fracas, or the beginning of the Bush & Blair bust up? Either way you need to go to Oz for a real firework wonderland. Don't you just love a little alliteration?

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Stop going on about panga, just because you have found a new word to annoy everyone with. Stop using it. Go to Vietnam and order some panga, not Spain. And stop semi droning in spanish, it's quite pompous of you. It makes people like me think people like you think your better than me when you don't even know me. If you don't like spains fish then don't eat them, but don't try to tell me I'm eating a singapore sardine when you don't know for a fact that I am. I wouldn't care anyway. Them are the best, apart from those pot bellied vietnamese panga fish.:) He can't read this anyway. If someone would kindly paste it and post it to him.:rofl: Love from lushdaddy.

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I like Panga
Whats wrong with that! :D

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Nothing wrong with it. It's great. (WTF is it?):confused: