Rock & Chips

[Ken Davison South Wales]

my old man loved it ,i thought it too sweet.

he also bought after every millwall home game a pint of shrimps and one of winkles from a street vendor near the ground,shrimps seem to have disappeared from most places to be replaced by equal sized but tasteless prawns.

Saturday evening was bliss for him ,mind you things were different back then and coley was catfood not expensive human food.

 

I had my first fresh caught coalie a few weeks back and the cat never got a look in

[Cranfield]

Its funny how tastes change,( or perhaps its adjusting to supply) but once we would never think of eating coalfish, pollack, or wrasse, for example.

Now we eat them and they taste just fine.

[Elton]

Its funny how tastes change,( or perhaps its adjusting to supply) but once we would never think of eating coalfish, pollack, or wrasse, for example.

Now we eat them and they taste just fine.

 

I still don't eat fish

[Cranfield]

I have a friend who is a professional inshore fishing Guide in Louisiana and he doesn't eat fish.

He claims the flesh is too soft, "with nothing to chew on".

[WALCOTT]

I still don't eat fish

 

when people are on about ROCK from the CHIPPY it could be any of the Dog/Spur/Smoothound/Tope type of fish as they all cook up the same...we have tried it and sold it and nobody knows what it is once cooked..and for these lot of fish the meat is roughly the same...be it cooked or raw...very enjoyable fish...

[barry luxton]

Its funny how tastes change,( or perhaps its adjusting to supply) but once we would never think of eating coalfish, pollack, or wrasse, for example.

Now we eat them and they taste just fine.

 

Never thought about eating wrasse Cranfield, is it boney, what does it taste like, i.e. bream ,bass.?

Pollack has more of a taste than bland cod.

Edited June 23, 2007 by barry luxton

[Cranfield]

We usually eat it in chunks, as one ingredient of fish stew, together with prawns, etc (bouillabaise sp? ).

I have also eaten it stuffed and baked, which was very nice as the stuffing was a shrimp/crab/squid, other shellfish paste mix.

[barry luxton]

We usually eat it in chunks, as one ingredient of fish stew, together with prawns, etc (bouillabaise sp? ).

I have also eaten it stuffed and baked, which was very nice as the stuffing was a shrimp/crab/squid, other shellfish paste mix.

 

Thanks for that Cranfield, so it is simular in texture to bass,bream, even the emotive mullet. I never really tried fish stews, so it is food for thought. Cheers.

[Cranfield]

Thanks for that Cranfield, so it is simular in texture to bass,bream, even the emotive mullet. I never really tried fish stews, so it is food for thought. Cheers.

 

I do not recommend anyone to eat grey mullet.

Apart from the fact they are tasteless, you do not want Leon camping on your doorstep. :headhurt:

[Puffin]

Never thought about eating wrasse Cranfield, is it boney, what does it taste like, i.e. bream ,bass.?

Pollack has more of a taste than bland cod.

 

It's amazing how different people perceive the taste or lack of it in fish. I would have said exactly the opposite as you Barry, regarding pollack. To me it comes a fair way second to cod and a long way behind haddock for taste. IMHO wrasse is only worth considering as a filler in stews where the flavour comes from the other ingredients. It is virtually tasteless and bony as a very bony thing indeed. There is no firmness or flakiness to the flesh either.

 

Getting back to Rock and chips. I caught a couple of smoothhound a while back and kept one for eating. I offered some to my mother-in-law and she nearly had my arm off! She loves a bit of rock eel, as they used to call it when she was a youngster in Essex.