"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
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> "Dean" > wrote in message
> news:RXUjh.15575$sz5.5770@trndny03...
>> Yeah, in regard to renaming, IIRC, "Chilean Sea Bass" used to be called
>> something else, a rather unappetizing name, something like "Garbage
>> Fish", which is how real fish gourmets thought of it.
>>
>> Then the marketing people thought up a name, the yuppies fell for it, now
>> Garbage Fish costs $9 a pound.
>>
>> Don't care for it by any name.
>>
>> Merry Christmas!!
>>
>
> Did the same thing to catfish a while back. when I was growing up, only
> poor people at catfish as it is a bottom dweller that eats waste products.
> They caught and sold the other fish, keeping the cats for themselves as no
> one would buy them.
> -ginny


"Waste products" is a myth, disproven through actual observation many years
ago.
http://www.floridaconservation.org/f...s/catfish.html