Fish!
Oct 15th 2014, 3:38 pm
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Re: Fish!
Flounder is one of the most usual (along with "scrod" which I understand is young cod) fishes to be served as fish and chips in New England. It's pretty good IMO although I have to agree with Pulaski that haddock is the best for fish and chips.
And don't get me started on the US's general failure to make proper chips ever.
And don't get me started on the US's general failure to make proper chips ever.
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Oct 15th 2014, 3:39 pm
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Re: Fish!
and againDon't worry though....its coming for you - on repeat!
Oct 15th 2014, 3:39 pm
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Re: Fish!
I wonder if flounder differs by location - I always categorized it with plaice in the UK and I really don't like plaice, but in New England it seems less "flat" and more like cod to me.
Oct 15th 2014, 3:40 pm
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Re: Fish!
Fish choice would be skate or plaice. As for shellfish, pretty much anything goes (apart from whelks).
Are you my hubby in disguise Yorkieabroad? He once told someone at the next table to us in a restaurant that all shellfish was wrong, using both your bogey and petri dish analogy!
Are you my hubby in disguise Yorkieabroad? He once told someone at the next table to us in a restaurant that all shellfish was wrong, using both your bogey and petri dish analogy!
Oct 15th 2014, 3:42 pm
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Re: Fish!
The only time I've had tilapia that I liked was from a Japanese katsu place around the corner from where I used to work in midtown NYC. They used to do it in breaded chunks as part of a bento. Sadly they refurbished and their new bento selection isn't a patch on what it was (and I don't work near them anymore anyway).
Oct 15th 2014, 3:43 pm
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Oct 15th 2014, 4:00 pm
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Re: Fish!
"Flounder" is a name applied to several only vaguely related fish species. I believe(d) that they are all flat fish, though I'm not sure how old they are when the eye flips over and they become "flat", so it is possible that small ones might still look like a "regular" fish
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Oct 15th 2014, 4:02 pm
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Re: Fish!
Thats sneaky...going back and editing after I've already replied, hoping I wouldn't notice.... and again
Don't worry though....its coming for you - on repeat!
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and againDon't worry though....its coming for you - on repeat!
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Sorry about that.
Oct 15th 2014, 4:17 pm
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Re: Fish!
"Flounder" is a name applied to several only vaguely related fish species. I believe(d) that they are all flat fish, though I'm not sure how old they are when the eye flips over and they become "flat", so it is possible that small ones might still look like a "regular" fish
Been there once, never again. FiL loves them. Weirdo.
Oct 15th 2014, 4:19 pm
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Re: Fish!
Not sure - Is he tall, dark, sophisticated and devilishly handsome with a presence that hushes the room when he enters? If so, its probably not me...
Oct 15th 2014, 4:20 pm
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Re: Fish!
Not a Brit but we used to catch fresh water rock, small mouth, and large mount bass and white crappie as a kid and I liked those more than any ocean fish or the bigger fresh water fish.
