What does Britain do which is the Envy of The World?

lostinrates

Afriend wrote: »

Plus NZers can't say 'Fish and Chips' properly. Too short on the 'I' vowel.

Fushuntchups.

lostinrates

Really2 wrote: »

or where they ended up living
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Thats all quite cool.


So, to be british, do foreign born eels haveto pass one of those English competancy tests?

I have t admit, although I'm a fairly adventurous eater eels just don't do it for me. I can't bring myself to try them. My family tell me I'd love them, but....you know...ther is a lot I love already...I'm not sure I need more...and I hate savoury jelly, cold consomme with a fork makes me gag.


Brixham mussels are pretty fab. And those HUGE British oysters they sell at Borough Market............... HUGE!

Really2

lostinrates wrote: »

Thats all quite cool.


So, to be british, do foreign born eels haveto pass one of those English competancy tests?

I have t admit, although I'm a fairly adventurous eater eels just don't do it for me. I can't bring myself to try them. My family tell me I'd love them, but....you know...ther is a lot I love already...I'm not sure I need more...and I hate savoury jelly, cold consomme with a fork makes me gag.


Brixham mussels are pretty fab. And those HUGE British oysters they sell at gheBorough Market............... HUGE!

Un-seasoned eel and much like many bottom feeding fish taste like where they live, (the bottom of a river or lake) very earthy.

Best eating fish is always predatory fish IMO. Pike is nice, and is quite like predatory sea fish.

LydiaJ

lemonjelly wrote: »

I have always, for some reason, been under the impression that our scientists (& as alluded to earlier engineers) have been/are envied in the world? Ismbard kingdom brunel et al, the inventiveness of so many things on a shoe string? John Logie Baird, Alan Turing, Abraham Darby & the industrial revolution, George Stephenson, the discovery of naming clouds, the invention of the tin can, Michael Farady, the jet engine, the fax machine, the gas mask, lightbulbs & the davy lamp, Alexander Fleming & penicillin, the steam engine, thermos flasks, radar, inventing the periodic table, and lets not forget, viagra!

Good thread generali! Felt quite proud reading it.

If we're listing scientists then we should include Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, James Clerk Maxwell, Joseph Lister, Francis Crick & Paul Dirac. And how about that Harrison bloke who invented the chronometer for solving the longitude problem? However, I thought the periodic table began with Mendeleev - who was Russian, wasn't he?

Davesnave

Oddly, coarse fish smell nicer than game fish (salmon, trout etc) IMO. Nice, fresh smell.

Where I used to fish, there were chub living alongside the trout, most of which were farmed fish, released into the river. The chub ate much the same diet as the trout & would be caught in the same way, so what made the chub 'coarse'?
I am only going on someone else's description of chub as 'tasting like soggy cotton wool full of needles.'

Tried eel once. Chopped into 5-10 cm pieces, the biggest problem was getting these to stop wriggling in the pan! :eek:I didn't really enjoy it after that. Quite a rich, oily taste from what I remember.

Really2

Davesnave wrote: »

wriggling in the pan! :eek:

Catching an eel is a nightmare (well getting the blighter off the hook is), the fellas don't do death in conventional terms.

If other animals did the same a butchers would be bedlam.

Davesnave

Sorry Lydia, never heard of Mendeleev, though I'm as familiar with his table as I am with the wheels on D'Oyly's cart.:rotfl: (Old Morecombe & Wise script)

As a pet owner, my vote goes to James Dyson.

lostinrates

I was thinking that an ''easy'' way to try eel would be smoked? Is that recommended Really?

Really2

lostinrates wrote: »

I was thinking that an ''easy'' way to try eel would be smoked? Is that recommended Really?

Pass, you can smoke anything really. I am sure it would taste better that way, I would think it may be a bit too firm for cold smoking, but I may be wrong.

Never tried it, but would say there are better things you could stick in a smoker.

I would leave eel as a "if I have too" fish, I don't plan on trying it a gain that is for sure.

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Not sure if it can be cured (like sushi) either say in lemon juice. Can't say I am going to try either.:)

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

I was thinking that an ''easy'' way to try eel would be smoked? Is that recommended Really?

mmmmmmmmmm grilled eel japanese style (unagi). yum yum yum