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Ride It Like You Stole It!
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Going to pop to the local cafe for a coffee and a snack. Going to kick the old folk out !!!
Us 'workers' need a break - first time since lockdown. 


I don't think it has been banned, it is just called Swai over here, to avoid it being confused with catfish, which it was being sold as. Actually, testing revealed that people preferred its' taste to Catfish. Catfish farming has powerful friends in government, though, so Basa gets called Swai. I think tariffs may be higher as well. For me, if I want to eat Cod, I buy Cod. Accept no substitutes.The other one to watch out for is Basa aka river cobbler a type of catfish from Vietnam which can be passed off as cod. I believe the USA have banned it.
I think @Reynard had some a while ago. Not for me.
Thought you might like to see the boat l used to help out on from time to time when l was a youngster.The other one to watch out for is Basa aka river cobbler a type of catfish from Vietnam which can be passed off as cod. I believe the USA have banned it.
I think @Reynard had some a while ago. Not for me.
Never noticed any pinkish colour but I suppose it may depend on their feeding ground. I got the info about dying with cochineal from somebody who lived around Newcastle somewhere.Must admit I've never seen dogfish dyed, there flesh is naturally a light pink colour.
Yuk.And yellow dyed haddock to imitate proper smoking.
Never noticed any pinkish colour but I suppose it may depend on their feeding ground. I got the info about dying with cochineal from somebody who lived around Newcastle somewhere.
Shocking!Morning tea tipplers.
I woke from a very vivid dream in which I'd had my wallet stolen. I had to check that it was only a dream. So, I lost all my cards and around £300 cash in dream money but won £25 premium bonds in electric money.
Got dogfish mainly in creels when fishing for prawns {langoustine to you}. A few years ago there was an English guy with an ancient French trawler who had set lines off the entrance to Loch Sunart and seemed to catch enough to make it pay when selling to an English market. At the time I was for my sins effectively piermaster of the Fisherman's Pier and I had to keep shifting him off as I was frightened the boat would sink and block the pier. He eventually abandoned it on the non working side of the pier and one of the larger boats here towed it out to deep water where it accidentally sank.Interesting, I'm a Geordie myself, but never caught a dogfish when I lived there. But now they are everywhere. The Bristol channel is full of them.
Should you be elsewhere?
The cover all name for such a fish used to be a "flatty" or maybe "flattie" ...... maybe thats not a good selling name tho'![]()
Difficult to say without a picture. Might have been a flounder, they can have dark spots. Could also have been a brill, but they are more rounded, or even a baby turbot.
The other one to watch out for is Basa aka river cobbler a type of catfish from Vietnam which can be passed off as cod. I believe the USA have banned it.
I think @Reynard had some a while ago. Not for me.
It's a bit late in the day for a picture.It was the wrong shape for a flounder, closest would be a brill, except it wasn't, because the fins were wrong for a brill. Definitely not a turbot, it wasn't fugly enough.