Posted on 09/28/2017 7:01:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
How can fish in water take over a town.
They are a species of carp ... so yeah they taste like carp.
So when’s PETA gonna run around in circles naked and flailing their arms in panic?
“Up next, on Insomniac ‘Theatre, The Fish that Ate Toronto.’”
Nuthin’ better than fried catfish.
> So, how do they taste?
Carp, once you get past the plethora of bones, actually tastes pretty good. It is a sought after delicacy item in many oriental restaurants where they seem to have mastered separating the meat from the bones for their patrons.
Don’t tell the salmon.
I did a quick internet search and did get the feeling that the “dark meat” and bones are the problem. Mostly the bones.
It’s kinda weird. I remember during the first 25 years of my life that bones were always an issue with fish (except for salmon). I haven’t thought about bones in fish for decades. I wonder what happened...
They kneel at the national anthem..................
Domestic carp have long been regarded as “trash fish” in many parts of the country because they’re bottom feeders. Some object to wild catfish for the same reason, god only knows what they’ve been eating and they taste like river mud in their native wild state. But, farm-raised catfish in clean, clear water fed cornmeal taste just fine, very mild nice flavor. I suppose the same could be done with carp. And, giant goldfish are just fancy carp.
[They need to import some blue herons from Florida and the Gulf coast.]
Taradactyl birds love them.
Filleted catfish does not have any bones to contend with.As far as the dark meat is concerned, that should be cut out and disposed of.
The fish of today are coming from the same place where they get the boneless chicken wings.
“I’ve also heard that either alligators or crocodiles are essentially immortal...”
Cajuns with .22 rifles & gator tags might disagree.
;^)
I must disagree with you on the wild catfish, especially the flathead. They are big time predators and are not bottom feeders as a rule. Some of the biggest catfish I have caught have been on live bait. Want to catch a big catfish, use a one pound carp. A really big catfish, use a 2 pounder.
If they got into the wild when people flushed them down the toilet that would mean they don’t process their sewage.
They never stop growing so a really huge one is pretty ancient as far as reptiles go. I wouldn’t say they’re immortal but old age isn’t the death of them.
Zackley.
There’s a pond out back.
My kid won 3 goldfish at the fair. We got them out of the bags and into the bowl. On day 1, first goldfish dead. On day 2, second goldfish dead. For the next month, the last goldfish started to grow. We took it out of the small bowl and put it into a larger bowl. A few weeks later it went into a larger bowl and we added a catfish to eat the goldfish crap. Eventually we had to buy a tank for 1 goldfish and 1 catfish.
The fish (named Dorothy) lived for a few of years. When it looked sick (it had something called ick) I asked a friend who had fish what to do. He told me there are a bunch of remedies, but he suggested aspirin. So I put aspirin in the tank. Fish gets better. I get a couple of new fish to go with the goldfish, as well as another catfish. Within a week everything is dead except Dorothy and the original catfish.
I wake up one morning and see Dorothy laying on its side, floating around the tank. It’s dead. I’m ready to flush it, but instead run cold water through its gills out of curiosity. My wife looks at me and asks me what the heck I’m doing. I give a muhahahahaha and say I am bringing the dead fish back to life. She shakes her head and says “grow up.” The fish starts moving. We both freak out.
I put Dorothy back in the tank to see what happens next. The fish lived another two years.
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