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Post by percyplum on Mar 26, 2009 20:12:58 GMT
I can't actually imagine wanting to eat salmon fish fingers.
The whole idea, for me anyway, is they're an easy kind of fun food.
But then, I don't like "proper" fish much anyway!
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Post by Patrick on Mar 26, 2009 21:25:08 GMT
I haven't had a fish finger since the late eighties. I gave them up 'cos the packs would take up too much space in my little freezer bit. I graduated onto those cod steak things in batter or breadcrumbs that they do. Before I learnt to cook properly that is.
Anyone remember the frozen fish things covered in breadcrumbs with cheese in the middle? They were nice!
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Post by jacbunny on Mar 26, 2009 23:06:49 GMT
I used to love fish fingers before I was veggie. But now I have veggie finger sandwiches instead which are nice too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2009 0:50:26 GMT
I JUST AD A FISH FINGER SANDWICH just NOW. not salmon thou, but the non-slutty cod fish-fingers. i had it with salad cream n loads of butter and it were right lush so it was  |
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Post by jacbunny on Mar 27, 2009 1:49:25 GMT
I was gonna have a banananana sandwich but then i remembered i'm out of banananananas, and then i remembered that means i can't take one to work tomorrow so there goes breakfast  |
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Post by Flatypus on Mar 27, 2009 2:16:09 GMT
Nanaba and Panda chocolate-vanilla ought to make a good sambo. I see fish goujons on sale now - that's like fingers except more expensive. I do not understand salmon fishfingers, but then I don't like salmon except smoked (with avocado and tomato and and .. ) I do not understand why decent fish is so hard to find outside of a chipper (maybe they buy it all?) or a can. I nearly gave a supermarket attendant the heaves by asking if a small conger (about 4 foot) they had on the fish stall (such as it is) was for sale. It wasn't. I suspect he thought it was some sort of snake from his reaction. Why can I get Alaskan pollack but not mackerel and herring? I don't like it but skate and dogfish are popular in the chipper - but you rarely see them for fresh. (Fresh dogfish makes source sandpaper I'll admit). This island seems to have barely heard of fish except in the West. It makes me wonder how they came to starve in the Potato Famine when they were surrounded by seas full of fish and rocks full of carrageen and dulse. Hellz bells, you can even stew limpets if you're desperate enough - and in 1944 my grandparents were. Recommend: Gurnard. It looks prehistoric reddish angular thing up to a foot long but usually half that with a great erectile dorsal fin with spikes like sharp knitting needles and a gob like a frog, walks along the bottom on fin ribs that have lost their fin. I think they frequent Cornwall so watch what you tread on. But, almost no guts in a little pocket underneath ideal for Kieving with garlic and butter, white, flakey and bakes a beaut in tinfoil.  |
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 27, 2009 7:13:35 GMT
"Why can I get Alaskan pollack but not mackerel and herring?"
Mackerel doesn't keep, and perhaps the same applies to herring. We eat mackerel on the say it is caught, or at the very latest the next day, otherwise smoke it.
Mackerel is seen on our southern shores but not herring, which we southerners can usually only buy in the form of kippers, or in rollmopp (sp?) jars.
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Post by Patrick on Mar 27, 2009 11:31:03 GMT
I have a great fishmongers, they know their stuff, and know their fishing grounds. I remember buying some fish once and they said something about it being caught in the South Pacific ocean - Quick as a flash I said "Wow! All that way eh? S'not very fresh then!"  Well, they liked it. |
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Post by Flatypus on Mar 30, 2009 0:37:49 GMT
There's no such thing as fresh fish. It's all been iced up on a trawler for days anyway. Sparrow has something of a point. Oily fish don't keep and mackerel is smoked like herring to keep it. All the same, I suppose they don't keep just as much in the Baltic and they manage marinated herring even better than rollmops. I find their sauces a bit too strong, but I suppose all their food tends to be strong and sour balanced against a lot of boiled potato. Whatever did they eat before potatoes? Black bread maybe, beetroot?
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Post by Patrick on Mar 30, 2009 8:26:55 GMT
When we lived within spitting distance of the South Coast you could always pick up fish caught that morning. You have to be in the right place at the right time really.
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 30, 2009 9:23:58 GMT
up at my parents we go out of an afternoon in the boat, catch some fish (on a line not a rod), mostly Mackeral or sythe (?) (we call them 'pueughky' or something, which I think is the Gaelic word for this fish type, my Dad being an Ileach).
We take the fish home. We cook it. We eat it.
That's pretty fresh if you ask me Piffle!!
Also lobsters. My Dad has a couple of creels (kreels?) down and he gets a lobster or big crab every couple of days, which he then eats. I'm not keen on lobster myself, but my Dad never seems to get sick of it.
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Post by percyplum on Mar 30, 2009 15:00:15 GMT
We're only a few miles from Rye so we can get very fresh fish here.
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Post by Patrick on Mar 30, 2009 17:01:38 GMT
We're only a few miles from Rye so we can get very fresh fish here. Funnily enough - that's where I was thinking of! There used to be this shed on the beach where you could buy fresh - well - everything nearly! |
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Post by Flatypus on Mar 31, 2009 3:30:04 GMT
Sure Riot, but you have to do it for yourself like so many good things. You don't get it in the shops much. No chance that I'll be down digging sandeels out and bugger-all chance they'll be in the shops either. Things with shells are too sweet for my taste but given their price, if you can catch them for yourself, good luck to you! I had occasion to get diverted into some fishery laws yesterday though. We wouldn't be allowed to put the old wicker pots down now, especially prawn pots, because they wouldn't allow undersized lobsters and crabs to get away.
We should be encouraged more back into fending for ourselves and trading on the small barter scale - but if you were growing green beans in your back garden and catching fish with lines too simple to risk overfishing, where would the commercial providers be?
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 31, 2009 7:01:43 GMT
We're only a few miles from Rye so we can get very fresh fish here. Funnily enough - that's where I was thinking of! There used to be this shed on the beach where you could buy fresh - well - everything nearly! As one who also lives not too far from Rye - and Hastings - may I issue a word of warning about buying fish straight off the beach. You may be lucky and get something off the boat that day - or you may get the stuff unsold from the day before - and not stored very well overnight.  (The "net shops" at Hastings are usually fine, BTW)* Jack Sparrow has taken the day off to is off to sea with his rod today, so it will either be fresh fish or beans for tea. *Buying off the beach in Rye may be fine too for all I know! |
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Post by percyplum on Mar 31, 2009 10:53:29 GMT
Funnily enough - that's where I was thinking of! There used to be this shed on the beach where you could buy fresh - well - everything nearly! As one who also lives not too far from Rye - and Hastings - may I issue a word of warning about buying fish straight off the beach. You may be lucky and get something off the boat that day - or you may get the stuff unsold from the day before - and not stored very well overnight. (The "net shops" at Hastings are usually fine, BTW)* Jack Sparrow has taken the day off to is off to sea with his rod today, so it will either be fresh fish or beans for tea. *Buying off the beach in Rye may be fine too for all I know! Hastings is good too. Lots along Rock-a-Nore. There's a little shed near the river in Rye that sells great shellfish. |
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Post by Patrick on Mar 31, 2009 12:10:42 GMT
S'alright H/S - It was a shop! It just resembled a shed on the beach! Or on the car park next to the Beach - we used to buy our teatime Dab there (before it had anything to do with digital radio!).
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Post by jean on Mar 31, 2009 13:16:43 GMT
There's nothing more frustrating than watching them unload box after box of langoustines at (say) Crinan and carting them straight off to London or even France .
But if you're in Dublin, you only have to go to Howth for really good fish.
The only problem with doing everything locally is that it's fine if you live close to a source of interesting foodstuffs, not much fun if you don't.
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 31, 2009 13:21:32 GMT
Jean, I'm all right then, what with living near to the original source of the deep fried Mars Bar!  |
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Post by Patrick on Mar 31, 2009 13:51:55 GMT
Jean, I'm all right then, what with living near to the original source of the deep fried Mars Bar! I notice that the Beeb is looking at the "Other" G20 today.......... |
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(The "net shops" at Hastings are usually fine, BTW)*