Thread: Dinner

Originally Posted by Bonecollector

^^ Joe, a cod in London is more expensive than buying a cod piece.

£6.25 for cod and chips at Phils Famous Chippy!

13 quid for a cod at my local

3.99 for standard chips

1.50 quid for a coke

Since Covid 99% have doubled their prices, outrageous.

We'll be paying for covid for a generation.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Since Covid 99% have doubled their prices, outrageous.

We'll be paying for covid for a generation.

I'll be in a winged armchair complaining and reminiscing to my grand children about covid one day

Wife and I made the trek up the coast about 40Km from the resort we are staying at to have a late Sushi lunch/dinner. Always top quality food.

^ spicy salmon salad, one of my favourites, with shredded diakon

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Wife and I made the trek up the coast about 40Km from the resort we are staying at to have a late Sushi lunch/dinner.

The whole experience looks great, but why fuck with that farm raised shit salmon? The tuna looks splendid, you grew up fishing for real salmon, so why do you eat that crap?

Originally Posted by bsnub

The whole experience looks great, but why fuck with that farm raised shit salmon? The tuna looks splendid, you grew up fishing for real salmon, so why do you eat that crap?

Its all weez got round these parts Snubs. Its not bad but not like what we know and enjoy in the Pacific Northwest. The Tuna is always top quality.

Originally Posted by bsnub

but why fuck with that farm raised shit salmon?

Snubs, I may be a 'cheap bastard' but I know a little bit about the Norwegian farmed salmon. Not only are they a complete environmental disaster, and not only due to the pollution around the salmon farms, the transfer of lice to wild salmon and the interbreeding with wild salmon that destroys their natural breeding instincts, it has also been an environmental disaster in the Baltic Sea where sand eels were hoovered up to provide food for the salmon farms. I say 'were' because they are all gone now... with the obvious knock-on effects for sea birds, fish populations, etc.

Also, the farmed salmon meat has around 35% more fat (I think, or it may be a lot higher) than wild salmon meat.

But... farmed salmon has brought the food to the masses, and also is VERY big money in Norway and the salmon farm monopoly is pretty much untouchable.

The salmon farming industry is incredibly unpopular among the local fishing communities, because once a salmon farm is set up an exclusion zone for fishing of around 200m (I think) is set up, destroying historical local fishing community grounds. It is so unpopular that the (salmon farming industry) vessels testing water flow, O2, chemical composition etc for new salmon farms no longer turn on their AIS (broadcasted positioning info) because as soon as locals know that an area is being considered for a salmon farm, they come out and destroy all the monitoring equipment

But is is very big money and it's here to stay.

I can absolutely taste the difference between salmon here and wild Salmon we enjoy from the Pacific Ocean off the California, Oregon and Washington coast. No comparison which is why I do not eat it much here. It very bland and fatty.

But as Mendy noted, farming Salmon along with Oysters, crab etc is here to stay to feed the masses. I only eat seabass fish here typically when I have fish. Forget that pond raised Tilapia junk you see at every market and Makro. It's awful.

This is why you see me eating nice aged steaks, fresh pork and chicken dinners.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Forget that pond raised Tilapia junk you see at every market and Makro. It's awful.

That ain't 'pond' raised Stumpy, that's 'tank' raised.

If you want some organic, naturally pond raised tilapia then just give me a shout.

I can sort you out.

Originally Posted by Bonecollector

13 quid for a cod at my local

3.99 for standard chips

1.50 quid for a coke

I'm currently sat in a beer garden on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border and have just paid 5 pounds 50 for a pint of Moretti and thought "Oh, that's cheap."

Regularly paying 6 to 7 pounds does that to you.

^ overprice Ital shite, get some ale in ya you minkie poof

I was on the ale yesterday, but it's too warm today for that!

^ What, it's above freezing again?

Tonight, I transformed this...



... into this...



No training, no recipe books, no nothing.

Just natural instinct.



I may even make up a pudding later.

Oysters, curried squid and fish cakes.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

I only eat seabass fish here typically when I have fish.

That's what we use for our fish n chips in the bar and mrs buys them fresh, fillets them and freezes.

Only we call it barramundi, cos it sounds more exotic and classy

Anyway, that's exactly what it is:

Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) is the Australian aboriginal name for Asian seabass; a term that means “large scaled fish.” Barramundi spawn in estuaries are able to live in both fresh and saltwater environments.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Wife and I made the trek up the coast about 40Km from the resort we are staying at to have a late Sushi lunch/dinner. Always top quality food.

That looks fucking great. My trip to Lao in december when all this covid nonsense slowed down
All i wanted to do was eat asian food and japanese was at the front of my mind. Vientiane didnt disapoint. In fact i was blown away by the quality

Mendy, those are some serious sausages, how were they? Big fan of Sloane's

The kip had depreciated so i was left wondering how they turned a profit?

Originally Posted by Stretchy

Pat pong garee, loverly.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Tonight, I transformed this...



... into this...

Isn't that the shirt you had on yesterday?


Men:

Too clean for the washing basket.
Too dirty for the wardrobe.
Welcome to.... 'The Chair.'


Respect.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Patpong garee, loverly

I've always preferred the ones at Nana to be honest with you.





















Ba dum tsss!

Originally Posted by Edmond

garee, loverly

^ a classic