On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:15:05 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 1:31:49 PM UTC-4, The Greatest! wrote:
>> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>> > On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 6:11:57 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:43:38 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 4:19:48 PM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>> > > >> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 03:30:22 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> > Water quality in the Mekong delta. Pretty polluted.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Pollution in the Mississippi delta is worse than in the Mekong's and
>> > > >> Ganges (Sunderbans delta). So why pay the premium for muddy-tasting
>> > > >> American catfish when imported basa tastes better for half the price?
>> > > >>
>> > > >> -sw
>> > > >
>> > > >I don't eat any freshwater fish. They all, always, taste like mud
>> > > >to me.
>> > >
>> > > When's the last time you had freshwater fish?
>> >
>> > Can't recall. I live in Michigan. There's abundant freshwater fish
>> > from warm(ish) and cold waters.
>>
>>
>> Have you ever attended a "fish boil"? It's a Wisconsin (Door County) thang, maybe you've encountered them in Michigan.
>
>Nope. I'm a city girl, from the land of the Coney Dog. Nowadays, I prefer
>my fish barely cooked (if at all). That's another reason for me to shy
>away from freshwater fish: they have a lot more parasites that can harm me.
>
>> As for catfish, I remember muddy catfish from my childhood, catfish was a staple along the Mississippi and it's tributaries. Now, catfish is farm - raised, and thus has a "cleaner" taste. But a lot of this farmed catfish is now I understand from Asia, sooooo...
>
>Must be like tasting cilantro. If you're a mud-taster, no freshwater
>fish will be good. The last catfish I had was in Thibodeaux, LA, in
>1989, in a restaurant. I had a head cold, and it still tasted like
>I was eating mud.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

I was just going to suggest the cilantro conundrum as a possible
answer.
Janet US