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La Mirada

On 6/19/2015 4:02 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 6/19/2015 11:42 AM, La Mirada wrote:
>> On 6/19/2015 3:38 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On 6/19/2015 11:23 AM, wrote:
>>>> On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 2:41:18 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 8:33:48 AM UTC-10, mkr5000 wrote:
>>>>>> There's a nice Asian market near me with live fish and a selection
>>>>>> of fish on ice but I'm a babe in the woods on buying this way. My
>>>>>> concern is safety I guess and wonder where the fish comes from? I
>>>>>> suppose the live fish is from US fish farms? The fish on ice? Don't
>>>>>> want fish from anything even close to toxic environments. great
>>>>>> prices and variety -- going there today I think to buy something.
>>>>>
>>>>> I love Asian markets but I'm too scared to buy fish there. Most of
>>>>> them are unfamiliar to me and god know where the heck they came from.
>>>>> OTOH, eating the stuff probably won't kill you - which is my main
>>>>> criteria for choosing foods.
>>>>
>>>> Wait, what? You live on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
>>>> Where *do* you get good seafood from if not local Asian markets?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can get great seafood at the local supermarkets and fishmarkets. The
>>> Asian markets sell fish for FOB Korean, Samoans, Filipinos, Vietnamese,
>>> and others. Most of them look like fish you'd catch in a river. The
>>> locals wouldn't know what to do with these products. The only fish we'd
>>> be familiar with would be tilapia but we hate tilapia!
>>
>> May I sign in and say, right on!
>>
>> It could be the most tasteless trash fish ever to make the big time.
>>
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> The only problem I have with tilapia is looking at, or eating them.

Lol, choosing your poisons or not..

> Otherwise, if folks on the mainland will eat them promiscuously, I will
> be grateful. OTOH, I think that tilapia raised in salt-water might be
> tasty. I'll let you know if I ever find out. :-)

Give me barracuda any day of the week@!