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hunter

(38,264 posts)
9. People eat some really ugly fish because someone thought up a good marketing name...
Wed Dec 28, 2016, 11:46 AM
Dec 2016

... or mislabeled the fish entirely.

But probably the worst fish commonly sold is escolar. The flesh of these fish contains an indigestible waxy substance. If you eat more than a few ounces of this fish "...symptoms range from stomach cramps to rapid loose bowel movements, occurring 30 minutes to 36 hours following consumption."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escolar

My dad loves fishing. My parents had a mess of kids Catholic style, and there were always a few more kids and odd adults at the dinner table. My parent's income wasn't quite high enough to feed everyone grocery store meat. But we always had a freezer full of fish that my dad had caught, every kind, including carp.

A quick google search found this:

"If you have any trepidation about eating carp for the first time, try deep-frying pieces of fillet cut to the size of dominoes. Eat the golden tidbits with beer and french fries. There's no one on earth who doesn't like this."

https://www.nps.gov/miss/learn/nature/carpreci.htm

Beer and french fries... yep, that's how you do it.

And when your pants don't fit anymore:







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