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> > "Boron Elgar" > wrote in message
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> > Buy either American Paddlefish or North Carolina Trout
> > caviar. Do not gulp them by the spoonful (damn!) as you
> > might good Beluga, but when taken with blini or crackers
> > and the appropriate dairy product, chopped egg or onion
> > etcetera they are remarkably decent for mere fractions of
> > the cost of the real stuff. BTW had a sampling of American
> > Sturgeon caviar last week, very disappointing, metallic
> > undertones, fishy with little redeeming characteristics. But
> > the above two are worth your investigating.
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> > pavane
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> I had some paddlefish roe recently and it was surprisingly good. I also
had
> some American Sturgeon caviar, bought through Petrossian, and it was very
> good, but not particularly cheap!
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Yes, Petrossian is sort of a gold standard. Glad to hear that it was
good, I will have to try more; don't know the packer of the batch that
I had. Darn, must eat more caviar, sigh...

pavane