The Banter Cafe

[quintessentone]

Why I am going on and on about methylmercury ? because our bodies cannot effectively remove it and it ends up accumulating and causing health problems.

[quintessentone]

I would say I eat eel maybe 2 times a year?
Tuna a  lot more though. We get those big tuna steaks. Maybe 6 times a year?

Same here about 2X a year maybe a little more when I go with certain family members out to dinner at sushi restaurants, which is rare.

One family members goes specifically for the eel and seems to crave it regularly (?)

[Oldcarpy2]

I'll stick with Monkfish then?

[quintessentone]

I'll stick with Monkfish then?

I just don't know any more Oldcarpy2?

Maybe everything is poisoned and beyond salvation.

[Oldcarpy2]

Same here about 2X a year maybe a little more when I go with certain family members out to dinner at sushi restaurants, which is rare.

One family members goes specifically for the eel and seems to crave it regularly (?)

I like smoked eel.

Best sushi was fresh caught mackerel and sea bass, caught on rod and line, on the boat off of Exmoor.

I like plaice fillets marinated in lemon juice in the fridge overnight.

Comes out like cooked.

[quintessentone]

I like smoked eel.

Best sushi was fresh caught mackerel and sea bass, caught on rod and line, on the boat off of Exmoor.

I like plaice fillets marinated in lemon juice in the fridge overnight.

Comes out like cooked.

Lately, I just buy wild ocean caught salmon, halibut and cod and more rarely, tuna, sardines and smelts.

I love baked smelts but feel guilty because they are such a small fish and so many have to be killed/eaten for one meal; same with sardines. I shouldn't feel that way because those two smaller fish are sustainable, so they say.

Seafood, is a whole other research endeavour...stay tuned.

[quintessentone]

I like smoked eel.

Best sushi was fresh caught mackerel and sea bass, caught on rod and line, on the boat off of Exmoor.

I like plaice fillets marinated in lemon juice in the fridge overnight.

Comes out like cooked.

That's supposedly how the Hawaiian people prepared their fish; perhaps not with lemon but an acidic component. I learned that somewhere a long time ago.

[Oldcarpy2]

Lately, I just buy wild ocean caught salmon, halibut and cod and more rarely, tuna, sardines and smelts.

I love baked smelts but feel guilty because they are such a small fish and so many have to be killed/eaten for one meal; same with sardines. I shouldn't feel that way because those two smaller fish are sustainable, so they say.

Seafood, is a whole other research endeavour...stay tuned.

Wild? They were livid.....

[ARM1968]

my first time in an English pub i was maybe between 7 and 9. and i ordered a ploughman's lunch. it was really good
i think it was hunk of crusty bread, stilton, apple.  do they still have those?

Yes some still serve ploughman’s. Funny story. Back in 1996, on my way to the Oasis gig at Knebworth, my brother and our friend stopped off at a pub. Glorious day. We joined a table in the beer garden, all oasis fans. The waitress can out and shouted ‘ploughmans’. I held my hand up and shouted ‘over here love’. She came over about a monsters plate of food in front of me. Biggest ploughman’s I’d ever seen. My brother asked ‘when did you order that?’ My response was ‘I didn’t’. Laughter erupted. Hands shot out and that plate was empty in seconds. Bants.

[sahgwa]

Yes some still serve ploughman’s. Funny story. Back in 1996, on my way to the Oasis gig at Knebworth, my brother and our friend stopped off at a pub. Glorious day. We joined a table in the beer garden, all oasis fans. The waitress can out and shouted ‘ploughmans’. I held my hand up and shouted ‘over here love’. She came over about a monsters plate of food in front of me. Biggest ploughman’s I’d ever seen. My brother asked ‘when did you order that?’ My response was ‘I didn’t’. Laughter erupted. Hands shot out and that plate was empty in seconds. Bants.

noice
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