Most carp I’ve eaten taste like mud.
These carp aren’t bottom feeders and taste fine.
BUT fishing for them will not prevent them from getting into the great lakes. The fed needs to fill in the canal. But Bongo will listen to Chicago of course, and there goes the fishing industry on the great lakes.
Talapia is carp. I won’t go into what they grow them on, but let’s just say they are raised downstream of other fish. (D*mn you Mike Rowe!)
That being said, they don’t taste bad at all.
Supposedly, the Asian carp are tasty. It’s the bones though - very boney. There are some folks who claim to have worked out a method for boning them out, so...
Bon appetit!
Will take your word on what mud tastes like. But carp is not all that bad, better than yard bird.
Carp are a bottom dwelling trash fish. When I lived and fished in Cleveland many years ago, the suggested recipe for preparing carp was to gut it, skin it, filet it, cook it on a wooden plank and baste it with a quart of bourbon. After 16 hours, throw away the carp, eat the plank and drink the gravy.
We have a recipe for Susquehanna River Carp here in the Twilight Zone....Get a cedar board, filet the carp and rub with seasoning....prepare an indirect charcoal fire, roast until flaky and done, then throw away the carp and eat the board.