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Re: Living in Spain - the good things!

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Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 8437472)

I aint talkin about mud.
A few clarts never hurt anybody,.....but sewerage and the brown stuff,....their favourite diet... I'm not quite so sweet on that.
Never mind quick in the pan quick out,
Just make sure they're well cooked or you'll be the one quick in quick out of the bog on a regular basis for quite a while!..:(

Caught fishies in a river near my home town once. Put it on a barbie and know exactly what you mean. I had an altercation with my bowels half way to the pub. My underpants I believe are still in those bushes.. Fishes that eat it, make you do it..:blink: Quite unexpectedly.:o

As for shellfish, they're all scrummy.. My grandad wouldn't eat crabs though as he reconned they ate all the dead sailors..:scaredhair:

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Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 8438281)

None taken. IMHO the "ignore" button is there for a reason, whether you use it or not is entirely down to the individual. I'm sure I appear on someone's list, that's the nature of forums, it doesn't worry me. :) Forums are made up of a great cross section of people, we'll always have different opinions, but if I come across someone who's posts consistently have absolutely no interest for me whatsoever, rather than get into the usual slanging match, I choose not to read them.

Well, I don't.. I think sometimes the most annoying people can have a valid point. But if you are trying to ignore me, then don't pop up mentioning me when I'm not talking to you in a thread
(that's even more annoying than usual)http://britishexpats.com/forum/showp...&postcount=226. (I think sometimes he unignores me, just to have a peep):)

Re: Living in Spain - the good things!

An interesting point many seem unaware of is that frozen then thawed uncooked fish can be sold as `fresh` in the eu , and most of it is:eek:

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Originally Posted by Rotor (Post 8441447)

An interesting point many seem unaware of is that frozen then thawed uncooked fish can be sold as `fresh` in the eu , and most of it is:eek:

Agree, and there is nothing wrong with frozen fish, it's just that some would have us believe that fish and seafood eaten in Spain were all swimming a few hundred yards off shore in the Med a few hours before it ended up on a plate. Huge amounts of Scottish shellfish goes to Spain, and it goes in refrigerated trucks, and most are completely unaware of where it came from. Near me it's difficult to give away spider crabs, so it all ends up in Spain as centollo.

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i think unless you have caught it yourself you will never know if its fresh

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Originally Posted by pip001 (Post 8441787)

i think unless you have caught it yourself you will never know if its fresh

Or wait on the beach at Los Bolitches. :D

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we have a small fishing village near where we are at La Rabita so that could be good:)

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Due to some of my family going deep sea fishing a lot I know the routine. When the catch is in, the skipper of the boat is on his mobile to his contacts. Only the rubbish is left by the time they come ashore. Have been told that only the expensive restaurants buy fresh Tuna. The rest buy frozen or sub-standard.

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i know what you are saying but we will have to wait and see what we can get when we are out there

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Somebody who is used to eating and buying fish can tell whether it is fresh by looking at it. Fresh tasty fish looks amazing. The crappy stuff looks crappy, its simple as that.

And you can ask at the pescaderia, wild local fish is twice as expensive as the other stuff and you can definitely tell by the quality of the meat and the taste so they would be stupid to rip you off.

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yes you are right there and i do a lot of fish here in the uk and you can tell its not fresh as well

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Originally Posted by cricketman (Post 8441990)

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Originally Posted by pip001 (Post 8442008)

yes you are right there and i do a lot of fish here in the uk and you can tell its not fresh as well

Simple to work out. but some on here will try to convince you it`s not. :rofl::rofl:

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Originally Posted by jdr (Post 8442052)

Simple to work out. but some on here will try to convince you it`s not. :rofl::rofl:

Still going on about these fish.?
It doesn't seem to matter what you mention to be a good thing on here. It'll get slagged off no matter what it is. It's always better somewhere else. How funny. I bet the paella is crap in spain too is it..?:)

( Paella, no no that's not from spain, if you look at the statistics on where the rice was produced... blah blah blah... you will realize you are eating rats hair.. blah blah blah..):thumbdown:

If you like them fish, eat them, if I can eat them on my balcony in the sun and have strawberries after.. Lucky lucky me..:thumbsup:

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My diabolical wife came home from a shopping trip today with Mars bars, pork pies and chocolate Ã©clairs, after having her teeth polished at the dentists. Iâ€™ve now got toothache and tomorrow is the weigh-in day for our diets. Weâ€™re not on the Mediterranean diet, weâ€™re on the Iceland one.

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Originally Posted by HBG (Post 8442934)

Much prefer the seafood diet myself,.....if I see food I eat it...:rofl:

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i do a lot of cooking and will decide for myself thanks all for the coments though:)