OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

> Heh! It is an acquired taste I guess. ;-)
> I always, _always_ eat it with cream cheese on crackers or melba toast.
> The cream cheese cuts the saltiness considerably.

Makes sense. Like putting a potato into a pot of too salty something or
other.

> I only eat it once per year for New Years. It's kinda traditional.
> Even the cheap jarred stuff is expensive.

/thinking back
I believe it *was* on New Year's eve that I had this "treat"

> Central Market allows you to taste the various fresh caviar that they
> sell during the holiday season and I've just found that the less
> expensive ones are actually tastier than the really high priced ones.

I don't know where you are, Om, but by that time, I'll be in a little town
with a population under 700. No giving out of tastes of caviar there, more
than likely.. heheh

> Paddlefish is becoming very popular due to the price of Beluga.
> Paddlefish are also not a threatened species. They are actually being
> farmed for caviar.

That's cool. I wonder what the snobs think of paddlefish caviar?

-feverish