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I miss the vacuum packed smoked haddock that they had in the supermarkets in the UK. Not sure if it was artificially flavored but it was artificially colored a bright yellow. Never seen it over here. I liked that with a bit of butter (salted of course) when i was in the UK.

Since being in the USA I have completely gone off salmon and gained a liking for rainbow trout which i will smoke in my smoker at home. I'll eat that with a bit of butter or break it up into bits for a salad.

When grilling a steak on the BBQ i will throw on a handful of little neck clams, not a fish i know but shellfish. Those little buggers are expensive now at $10 a lb, they used to be $5 a few years ago. Plus you might get a few open ones (dead ones). I might make a garlic white wine sauce to toss them in as well.

Also i like shrimp, tuna and anchovies on my pizza. A pizza that i discovered at an Italian restaurant in the UK.

I don't think I've seen canned pilchards over here, used to have them all the time on toast in the UK.

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Other than knowing they should be clear, bright and shiny otherwise the fish ain't fresh.

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I miss smoked haddock too, used to put it in my fish pie with salmon and prawns. I did get smoked trout at Trader Joes but it's not really 'chunky' enough and did find smoked haddock at Central Market once. Don't have a smoker sadly :(

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Grew up on the IOW and one of my fondest childhood memories was waiting for my dad to come home on a Saturday after he spent the day fishing with his mates. He would always return with fresh mackerel that he had caught that afternoon.

He would prepare it for tea, grilled with salt and pepper and some nice warm crusty bread. Still to this day one of my favourite things to eat especially when I go to visit my parents.

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You can get that round this way - I still do from time to time - lovely with a proper slice or two of brown bread and butter.

However, anchovies....:sick:
Still not sure why I love ceasar salad, cos they are in the dressing....

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Haddock. Prepared by someone else. Or, in more detail - beer battered, deep fried (in lard) and put in a paper wrapper with nice chunky chips, again fried in lard, then covered in lashings of salt and malt vinegar. I will also accept the American 'fish fry' version, using cod or perch as well. I still haven't made my mind up regarding catfish. My wife has made it a few times and I've eaten it quietly but I really don't think I like it much at all :unsure:

Failing that, I am partial to a nice salmon steak. I also don't mind sushi, or at least the versions that use tuna or salmon. Haven't ventured too far from that.

Also, kippers, smoked mackerel. Sardines in a tin, or tinned mackerel with mustard sauce. Mmmmmm.

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Dover Sole, with a bit of lemon.

Cod for fish and chips, ideally the localish fresh stuff, otherwise haddock as it seems to freeze better.

Maine cold water lobster, boiled and eaten with butter. Crabs aren't bad either.

Calamari, fried, with a spicy dip.

Baby scallops, lightly fried in butter.

A nice bit of grilled trout is lovely too, but I don't seem to find it all that available locally, fresh that is and when I do, it's usually like the cod, massively expensive.

Maine, cold water shrimp, they make the best rolls.

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When we lived in Maine, Duck Trap, fish place did some and it was yum.

They have stuff sold in Wholefoods down my way, but it's massively more expensive :(

Oh and those bags of claims, up in Maine, they're about a buck and some odd change for a pound bag off the coast, same bag is about $8 down my way.

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That takes me back....when I first started working in London back in the early 80's I would go out for dinner with Dad when he came to town - we always either went to Roules (if it was my turn to choose) or the Savoy (if it was his turn). Standard order at the Savoy was Dover Sole for both of us. Still makes my mouth water to think of it....haven't had one for donkeys...

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This thread made me hungry so i treated myself at lunchtime.
Haddock and chips with a battered sausage for good luck :)

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Sausage looks good, and the chips look like proper fish shop chips, but is that the "fish bits" rather than a full fillet? Looks a lot closer to the real thing than most of the stuff we get around here. Its getting me in the mood - 11.30 (UK) Saturday 25th I'll be sitting down to the real deal from Priory Fish shop in Guisborough.....can't wait!

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If its fried and served with chips then its got to be haddock.

Otherwise I like salmon, walleye, rockfish, yellow perch served with lashings of butter. Tuna is good once in a while too.
I make a good dish with little neck/manilla clams, which yes look like snots before they are cooked but taste delicious when steamed with some white wine. Same applies to mussels.
Shrimp are good but not so keen on lobster. I cannot stomach raw oysters, nasty ass taste and the feeling of a mouthful of snot to boot *blech*

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Mrs P suggested that sushi is the fish equivalent of an iPhone - it seems to attract a strangely obsessive/defensive following! :lol:

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:nod::amen:

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That's fhe cloest my tongue has been to my ipad, look at those chips mmm...

Were you at The Codfather? or is Phoenix blessed with more than one decent Fish n Chip place?