Why doesn't fish taste like fish anymore?

Maybe it's what else is in the North sea?

Questionable practices at your local fryery!

Why is the vast majority of Bass sold in the UK 'undersize' and all look like peas from a pod - they are farmed.
Haddock & cod are also farmed (though not to the extent of Bass)- your's possibly was. They all taste the same as they are fed on pellet diets. I personally wont touch farmed fish unless nothing else is available as I dont like the taste - you simply cant beat fresh from the boat fresh - and I dont mean boats that have been out for 7 weeks and freeze their catch.
Even better caught by youself and eaten within hours.

The jumbo haddock I had at the famous Magpie in Whitby (best chippy in the country) the other day certainly tasted of fish to me.


P

Yep, we don't mess about with our fish and chips in Yorkshire!!!

The only place I have enjoyed fish was in Norway!

My grandmother was horrified by what I thought was a fishy smell in the wet fish shop [used to be called - unofficially - Fishy Gardiners, and now closed on the retirement of the owner] in Hereford. In King Street, and now a lamp shade emporium!

She informed that this was the smell of fish Norwegians would call "rotten." No Norwegian fish shop would get custom smelling of what we Brits think is a normal fishy smell.

The best fish I have eaten was caught by myself, my grandfather, or my grandmother and eaten with hours, or on occasion bought from a proper fish shop ...

Steve is quite right ...

George

Thinking back many moons to a time when chicken was no longer a dish for high days and holidays and available to the working man whenever he wished the price to be paid was that it tasted of fish as using fish bits as food was the only way to put a chicken in every pot at a price most could afford to pay. Today it seems that the price for what I would consider undersized "line" caught bass is once more the taste of chicken. Does anyone know if the Waitrose New Forest Barramundi taste of chicken?

So the fish are not eating fish any more, that's why they don't taste of fish! Now they taste of chicken.

And chicken used to taste of fish because the chickens ate fish!

So if we feed fish that tastes of chicken to the chickens and chicken that tastes of fish to the fish then the problem is solved! Oh but wait - then the chicken will taste like chicken again and then if we feed that to the fish they'll taste like chicken again!

Doh!

If you want to recapture the taste of fish - eat pork. Which seems to have gone seriously out of fashion since I was a lad and the Boers were giving us some trouble. (Pish, more like)

Eating fish man is like sooo cruel. You must eat lentils and wallpaper paste flavoured and shaped like fish,plastic protein that looks like bacon and chicken that tastes of fish.

As we grow older, we have fewer taste buds. By the time you are 90, fish will taste like cardboard. Enjoy it while you can.

Jim

I'm just glad it doesn't taste like rhubarb.

I used to eat pencils at school, so no doubt loosing my taste buds will not much matter!

George

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Originally posted by Jim Lawson:
As we grow older, we have fewer taste buds. By the time you are 90, fish will taste like cardboard. Enjoy it while you can.

Assuming there are any fish or humans around in 50-odd years that is

I'm one of those weird people who HATES the taste, smell and texture of fish. The only fish I'll eat are prawns, scampi, and MRM'd stuff like fish fingers and fish cakes. I got forced to eat some trout once though and it was almost OK.

I blame my mum; I've never got over seeing her boil a crab to death in a large cooking pot when I was four!

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Originally posted by Jim Lawson:
As we grow older, we have fewer taste buds. By the time you are 90, fish will taste like cardboard. Enjoy it while you can.

Jim

I ate some cardboard the other day that tasted of fish...

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:

Have just had some Haddock & chips and I can't understand why sea fish doesn't taste of fish anymore.

Fresh fish should smell of the sea, & of course taste of fish.
Was the fish frozen &/or processed Jamie?

Frozen bit of haddock fillet. But it seems the same whether it's fresh or frozen North Sea/Atlantic fish. As opposed to some of the more exotic/tropical fish now available or freshwater fish like trout which certainly still taste of fish. Clearly a mystery to most then...

Just had a brilliant dinner with my family and some friends at a Sushi Bar.
The fish tasted like fish to me.
David

I want mutton to make a serious come back.

garyi,
I have been told that mutton can taste a bit fishy but only when dressed as lamb.

Roy T - life is always stranger than fiction!

In Orkney there is a breed of sheep on the island of North Ronaldsay which feeds on seaweed, so the mutton tastes of the sea.
The sheep are kept on the beach by a dry stone dyke, which surrounds the whole island.

smells a bit fishy to me...

I bet they eat a few Baaaa- nicles too!

I find that Boreray taste better when accompanied by soay rather than mint sauce.