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La Mirada

On 6/19/2015 5:09 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 6/19/2015 12:26 PM, La Mirada wrote:
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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@!
>
> I've had some smoked barracuda - it's good stuff.

Like chikin'!

> I used to have a 67
> Barracuda - that was good stuff too!

Long fast back glass roof, oh yeah...