Miche wrote:

In article ,
Mark Thorson wrote:

On the contrary, I don't miss tobacco or peanuts
at all. I did miss beef, until I discovered the
Australian beef and checked out the Mad Cow
situation in AUstralia. Then, for about 3 months
I was eating half a steak just about every day.
I've since slackened off a bit, having had my
fill and discovering the very nice wild turbot
and orange roughy also sold by Trader Joe's.

I'd lay off the orange roughy for the species's sake. It's in danger
from overfishing -- it's a slow-maturing, slow-reproducing fish.

I'm aware of that. It's my goal in life to eat the
very last orange roughy pulled from the ocean! :-)

My main concern is mercury. I've been eating lots
of fish recently, and I know it's not healthful
to eat fish every day because of the mercury.
But I feel that the risk is outweighed by fish
being soooo delicious, when properly prepared.
I certainly don't feel that peanuts can meet that
standard -- peanuts are very risky. I wouldn't
take that risk unless it was for something really
good, like bacon. Butter is where I draw the line.
I stopped eating butter over 20 years ago, because
it's deliciousness did not sufficiently exceed
its danger.

I recently discovered that the combination of
fish and broccoli works very well. That's not
obvious -- brocolli hardly goes well with anything
except butter. But I discovered that combining
fish with broccoli makes for an excellent soup.