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Old Jun 28th 2007, 3:45 am
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How many people have heard the following, or variation of the following, in reference to fish..."Does it taste fishy?"

Does it make you want to go over to the person, slap them in the face and say "IT'S FISH FOR F'CKS SAKE, WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WILL TASTE LIKE? BISCUITS?"
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Chicken.
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I've come to except that where we come from fish is in abundance and so much cheeper, where as over here I have to pay twice as much more for a piece of Cod than I do for Steak
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True. I love salted cod. Seen the price of that?
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Originally Posted by Duncan Roberts
How many people have heard the following, or variation of the following, in reference to fish..."Does it taste fishy?"

Does it make you want to go over to the person, slap them in the face and say "IT'S FISH FOR F'CKS SAKE, WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WILL TASTE LIKE? BISCUITS?"
What brought this on?
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What brought this on?
When you hear it enough times, you snap. I heard it one too many times! "I don't buy fish because whenever I cook it it tastes fishy" was what did it.
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The expression was originally "smells fishy" meaning suspect or suspicious

This idiom alludes to the fact that fresh fish have no odor but stale or rotten ones do.
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When you hear it enough times, you snap. I heard it one too many times! "I don't buy fish because whenever I cook it it tastes fishy" was what did it.
I've heard similar from my OH family I have converted my Yank, he no longer has red meat every other day.
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I've heard similar from my OH family I have converted my Yank, he no longer has red meat every other day.
Meat only every other day? Why were you starving him?
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Meat only every other day? Why were you starving him?
Man but you've got a dirty mind for a septic!
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When you hear it enough times, you snap. I heard it one too many times! "I don't buy fish because whenever I cook it it tastes fishy" was what did it.
Give them my Portuguese Fish Stew recipe
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Man but you've got a dirty mind for a septic!
Ain't he just
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Do you ask someone who is trying on a pair of gloves "how do they fit?!?"
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In Cod we Trust.
Do you ask someone who is trying on a pair of gloves "how do they fit?!?"
OJ showed how they can be shown not to fit.....
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Originally Posted by britvic
I've come to except that where we come from fish is in abundance and so much cheeper, where as over here I have to pay twice as much more for a piece of Cod than I do for Steak
aye, fish in general ain't that cheap...but salmon, scallops, prawns and well up in maine, lobster is a lot cheaper...but sole, cod etc...ouch.
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