Fresh mackerel is lovely. Fair hard to go angling in the west and NOT catch a heap of the cunts
You know the Billy big bolloxes when they have monkfish on the wedding menu
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Lobster was once a peasant dish. The cockroach of the ocean
I just had some lightly smoked Orkney salmon fillets with teriyaki sauce for breakfast. They were beautiful
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Correct. On the east coast of the USA they used to do two things with it.
A. Mash it up and use it as fertilizer and
B. Feed it to convicts.
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The other issue with it was that it is a ferociously ugly fish and some fishermen consequently thought it was possessed by demons and fucked it over the side. Fishermen are understandably very superstitious.
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Great if eat right away from the boat
Tis grand .
Decent whiting is relatively cheap but lovely
Itās nearly as dear as the monkfish now
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Fish was cheaper in the olden days largely because it was cheaper to fish than to farm and fish were plentiful. Fish was also not as fashionable as it is now. It was a penitential dish and we ate it grudgingly. My mother would go down the town on a Friday and buy a few bits of plaice from an owl wan with a stall on Arundel Square. The fish would be sitting there all day and refrigeration wasnāt a thing. You wouldnāt see it in the wet market in Wuhan these days.
Fish is now considered heathy and has become fashionable at the same time as it has become scarce leading to the classic supply and demand dynamic = expensive.
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The lobster used to be significantly bigger also, the cunts are immortal sure
Thereās a couple of lovely documentaries on the Blasket Islands on YouTube and they often went fishing for lobster
Monkfish is old hat at this stage. Twas all rainbow trout before the covid
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Love a plate of sardines me ā¦the blue fish is packed full of goodness ā¦
the other day I had some lovely black rice , from squid ink ā¦ Delish but it comes out of you like 10 pints of Guinness ā¦
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A lot of the Eastern European lads love the coarse fish like bream and pike.
Is it not all bones
I had the real deal a few years ago. It was very nice. Must try and make it at home.
An observation after being in Limerick for an hour, is it a thing that the ānon-residentsā of Limerick register their cars in Clare?
Week booked in Kenmare in September. Bar the Ring of Kerry any other activities recommended for South Kerry/West Cork or tips to avoid being caught by Yerrahs in vans?
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