Americans do not appreciate good food...

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My favorite fish is Mahi. ... I like grouper and snapper.. buff Mahi is on the menu, that's my dinner. Basic broiled with a little lemon and a bun. A good friend of mine says I need to try Wahoo as that is his favorite.

I don't care that much for dolphin (aka Mahi) it has to be super fresh...but I totally agree about the Wahoo...it is by far the tastiest of all the pelagic fishes known for table fare...Also one of the funnest to catch...they are as fast as sailfish...

 

[Tomtint]

I don't care that much for dolphin (aka Mahi) it has to be super fresh...but I totally agree about the Wahoo...it is by far the tastiest of all the pelagic fishes known for table fare...Also one of the funnest to catch...they are as fast as sailfish...

A couple years ago we were in Key West and went fishing. ..Came back with 40 pounds of Amberjack ...first time I had that.. It was definitely good.. Also caught Mahi in Maui..as fresh as you can get and yes..it's better than 3 day old that you find at the market or 1 -+ week old frozen that the restraints have.

 

[bunyip]

Monkfish is popular in Europe as a firm white flesh, we don't get it so don't know what it is like.
What we hate is cheap Asian fish being passed off as barramundi, and travelling several hundred kilometres inland you see a place advertising fresh seafood

 

[/pine]

A couple years ago we were in Key West and went fishing. ..Came back with 40 pounds of Amberjack ...first time I had that.. It was definitely good.. Also caught Mahi in Maui..as fresh as you can get and yes..it's better than 3 day old that you find at the market or 1 -+ week old frozen that the restraints have.

IMO Amberjack is good for cat food... the only ones I ever found palatable were less than 24"...I think the minimum legal size is 34"...until there was a huge craze for "blackened amberjack" hit the Atlanta-NY eatery market they sold for less than a $1/pound...Now I think they may have game fish status...but IMO the meat is course and grainy...smoked is another popular way of cooking...

True story:...Once when we were well offshore bottom fishing a school of big dolphins (mahi mahi) came through chasing a big school of flying fish...one dolphin hit one of our flat lines (surface bait) that was rigged for sails...the dolphin was horsed into the boat and in no more than 40 seconds two fillets were removed from the fish and the carcase was tossed back and actually tried swimming off...the fillets were skinned, fingered and iced and fried for lunch within the next hour or so...!

 

[Tomtint]

IMO Amberjack is good for cat food... the only ones I ever found palatable were less than 24"...I think the minimum legal size is 34"...until there was a huge craze for "blackened amberjack" hit the Atlanta-NY eatery market they sold for less than a $1/pound...Now I think they may have game fish status...but IMO the meat is course and grainy...smoked is another popular way of cooking...

True story:...Once when we were well offshore bottom fishing a school of big dolphins (mahi mahi) came through chasing a big school of flying fish...one dolphin hit one of our flat lines (surface bait) that was rigged for sails...the dolphin was horsed into the boat and in no more than 40 seconds two fillets were removed from the fish and the carcase was tossed back and actually tried swimming off...the fillets were skinned, fingered and iced and fried for lunch within the next hour or so...!

Last summer we were at a friends house warming party. They had a group of guys from their local rod and gun club outside frying fresh haddock. Big tubs of it cut up into thin paying card side pieces. Basically finger food size. I don’t know what their recipe was for the light batter/breading or what type of oil they were using but it’s the best haddock I have ever had. Those guys were pros.

 

[bunyip]

Another abomination is the chicken parma, essentially a chicken snitty covered with a slice of 'quality' ham and cheese then grilled, served with the ubiquitous chips pre salted so you have to buy a drink.
They range from acceptable to awful depending up[on the venue, just about every pub in the country serves this, they are also huge, about the size of a dinner plate, I can't eat a whole one then they always ask what was wrong with it.
Pizzas are another lottery, a lot have way too much on them and more cheese than can be good for you, a soggy greasy offering, the franchises are the worst offenders but it seems that more cheese is a better product.

*Snitty, local term for schnitzel.

 

[Tomtint]

Another abomination is the chicken parma, essentially a chicken snitty covered with a slice of 'quality' ham and cheese then grilled, served with the ubiquitous chips pre salted so you have to buy a drink.
They range from acceptable to awful depending up[on the venue, just about every pub in the country serves this, they are also huge, about the size of a dinner plate, I can't eat a whole one then they always ask what was wrong with it.
Pizzas are another lottery, a lot have way too much on them and more cheese than can be good for you, a soggy greasy offering, the franchises are the worst offenders but it seems that more cheese is a better product.

*Snitty, local term for schnitzel.

As I said in this post earlier..I'm a very simple eater.. what's on my plate is easily identifiable by any passer by. I have a local Bar/restaurant where we can be found 2 or 3x a week. Good clean fresh food, nothing with special glaze or drizzle etc. By now I have had basically everything on the menu at least once. Only 2x I got something I was less than happy about. One was a seafood platter... it looked good as it went by going to another table so I signed up for it....big pile of fried stuff....killed my stomach and I couldn't eat 1/2 of it. .. second going was some Mexican chicken wrap thing... it sounded good at the time...but had a few bites and covered the rest with my napkin. ..pizza...as I get older I find I eat less of it and now really don't like the Greak style that so many places have.. I'm more of a small thin bar style fan ...Well done and not too much red sauce on it.... red sauce = heart burn at bed time.

 

[bunyip]

Many moons ago I was in a motel and hungry, a KFC ad came on for hot and spicy, people eating it bit into the chicken and there was a crunch and then they felt the effects of the 'hot and spicy', now, I like anything hot and spicy and although I should have known better I went out and bought some, it looked OK but when I bit into it there was no crunch, just a squishing noise like squashing a semi deflated whoopee cushion followed by a stream of grease running down my chin, as for the hot and spicy, I'm still waiting for the kick.
That was in about 2004 and I haven't been back since.

 

[Tomtint]

Many moons ago I was in a motel and hungry, a KFC ad came on for hot and spicy, people eating it bit into the chicken and there was a crunch and then they felt the effects of the 'hot and spicy', now, I like anything hot and spicy and although I should have known better I went out and bought some, it looked OK but when I bit into it there was no crunch, just a squishing noise like squashing a semi deflated whoopee cushion followed by a stream of grease running down my chin, as for the hot and spicy, I'm still waiting for the kick.
That was in about 2004 and I haven't been back since.

I don't eat fast food. ....I think those places should give you a roll of Charmin instead of napkins with your meal....seams like it would get more use.

 

[Oaktree]

This comes across as more of a regional bias than an educated palate...!

But that can be said about most of the opinions expressed here. Lots of regional favorites that don't travel well if you weren't raised with them. Most southern dishes fall in that category for me. Rocky mountain oysters, brain sandwiches, poutine, and Moxie aren't exactly mainstream items either (I do like Moxie, the other stuff not so much).