# Seafood
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 5, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342 "2015-05-05T23:16:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/21 "2015-05-06T02:12:00Z")
> [@Potestas](#):
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> If you swallow a caviar will it hatch in your insides? Ive always been leery of caviar for that reason
Just like watermelon grows if you swallow the seeds. And gum stays in your stomach for seven years.
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### Author:  [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/22 "2015-05-06T02:13:07Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> I lost the use of a bathroom because I had to convert the toilet into a fish bowl because I attended a fancy party at the Russian embassy once. It took six months of patient fishing and lots of seafood dinners to fix that problem. Never again.
Where’s that like button already? 😃
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/23 "2015-05-06T02:14:06Z")
I would recommend that, if you have never had seafood before and you are on a flight that flight that offers either steak or fish, choose the lasagna.
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### Author:  [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/24 "2015-05-06T02:16:09Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> I lost the use of a bathroom because I had to convert the toilet into a fish bowl because I attended a fancy party at the Russian embassy once. It took six months of patient fishing and lots of seafood dinners to fix that problem. Never again.
Best. Post. In. Thread.
I thought this thread would disappoint. It did not.
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### Author:  [@Potestas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potestas)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/25 "2015-05-06T02:17:15Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#):
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> Just like watermelon grows if you swallow the seeds. And gum stays in your stomach for seven years.
omg are you serious?? I’m freaked out to try caviar now but I will definately try other types of seafood soon. Ive always wanted to try puffer fish
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/26 "2015-05-06T03:01:43Z")
> [@Potestas](#):
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> omg are you serious?? I’m freaked out to try caviar now but I will definately try other types of seafood soon. Ive always wanted to try puffer fish
Caviar and puffer fish??? Steer clear of the delicacies for a while, and just concentrate on plain ol’ fish. McDonald’s is a good suggestion. Or go to the supermarket and buy some fish sticks.
And I still can’t believe you’ve never had any kind of seafood. How old are you?
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/27 "2015-05-06T03:08:59Z")
I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE caviar! Big spoonfuls of the stuff piled onto hot buttered toast points with a nice spritz of lemon juice! :o
It is indeed very salty, but it’s a _good_ salty! The very best caviar (Beluga, Ossetra, Sevruga) is outrageously expensive; I’ve had it, but only as someone’s guest. Other types of caviar (salmon, lumpfish roe) are not bad at all and much cheaper.
I can’t imagine there would be any problem with the eggs hatching inside you.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/28 "2015-05-06T03:10:17Z")
I like various kinds of fish, suitably prepared. But I don’t eat squid, octopus, shellfish, or any kind of crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Somehow, I can’t bring myself to recognize mollusks and crustaceans as food. I don’t eat escargot either. I don’t even know what caviar looks or smells like, but just the thought seems icky.
But salmon and mahi-mahi are double-plus-good!
PUFFER FISH ? ? ? :eek: That’s a close relative of [fugu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu) and equally poisonous, is it not? Or maybe even it IS fugu?
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### Author:  [@Potestas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potestas)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/29 "2015-05-06T03:14:13Z")
What kind of fish does McDonalds fry? Is it salmon?
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/30 "2015-05-06T03:15:19Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> **OP** ; you ever had a woman?
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> ETA: in the biblical sense.
Are you casting about for possible ways to describe for our fish-virginal OP what fish tastes like?
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### Author:  [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/31 "2015-05-06T03:17:46Z")
Methinks the OP is [fishing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_%28fishing%29).
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/32 "2015-05-06T03:24:57Z")
McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish is whatever the cheapest variety of fish is at the moment, which has never been and probably never will be salmon. Cod is a lot more likely. If someone’s serving salmon, they’ll call it salmon.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/33 "2015-05-06T03:28:37Z")
> [@Potestas](#):
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> What kind of fish does McDonalds fry? Is it salmon?
North Atlantic whitefish, they say, but I think that’s a generic term for fish like cod and pollock. Whatever it is, the flavor is very mild.
Salmon has pink flesh and a much stronger flavor. Trout is similar, but it’s exclusively a freshwater fish (I think). Both are delicious.
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/34 "2015-05-06T03:33:45Z")
> [@Potestas](#):
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> What kind of fish does McDonalds fry? Is it salmon?
You have to let us know now if you are being held hostage against your will somewhere. We can send help. In case you are serious, here is the ingredient list. No normal person thinks that McDonalds Filet O’ Fish might consist of salmon.
“FISH FILET PATTY: Ingredients: Pollock, Wheat Flour, Water, Modified Food Starch, Contains 2% or Less: Yellow Corn Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour, Salt, Whey, Dextrose, Dried Yeast, Sugar, Cellulose Gum, Colored with Paprika and Turmeric Extract, Spice Extractives.”
I find it extremely hard to believe that you have never tasted seafood unless you come from very exceptional circumstances.
Can you please explain how that happened to you in particular? This isn’t an especially good joke unless you are writing from Saharan desert or somewhere that seafood is a completely foreign concept.
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### Author:  [@Potestas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potestas)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/35 "2015-05-06T03:45:48Z")
I’ve never had fish, I am in my 20s and I’ve never had seafood because ive always been combination grossed out or simply not interested in it. I didnt think it was that surprising that someone has never had seafood before but I guess it is.
Now as ive thought more about it the more curious ive gotten about seafood
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### Author:  [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/36 "2015-05-06T03:54:59Z")
> [@zombywoof](#):
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> Methinks the OP is [fishing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_%28fishing%29).
Yes, and not with much skill.
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### Author:  [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/37 "2015-05-06T04:12:22Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#):
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> Yes, and not with much skill.
But it has been pretty entertaining, you have to admit!
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/38 "2015-05-06T04:40:46Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> I lost the use of a bathroom because I had to convert the toilet into a fish bowl because I attended a fancy party at the Russian embassy once. It took six months of patient fishing and lots of seafood dinners to fix that problem. Never again.
**Shag** , I like you so I’m not gonna tell the story about the time I had caviar _and_ Rocky Mountain oysters. In fact, even now I’m not sure I can talk about it.
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### Author:  [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/39 "2015-05-06T04:44:06Z")
For some really good seafood venture into the shellfish department… oysters, crabs, shrimp, lobstah, etc etc. Later in the season softshell crabs will be in season… they are the best of all seafood hands down.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2015, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seafood/719342/40 "2015-05-06T04:53:44Z")
There are so many different ways to cook seafood: Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, New England, Cajun, Creole, Japanese, Chinese, to name just a few…
It’s not only what you eat, it’s how you cook it. Sampling each cuisine will keep you busy for a long time!
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