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My wife is on a real fish eating mission at the moment. We now have to eat it twice a week.

She grew up near the coast in Dublin and some of her family worked in fish shops so there was always loads of good fish around for eating.

I never buy it from Supermarkets as I find you can smell the fish before you see it in most of them

I get mine here https://thecornishfishmonger.co.uk/?gcl ... 0wodqYULoQ

As long as you go for in season UK caught stuff like Cod then the fish is superb, it comes of the boats the day before its sent to you.

Its expensive compared with Supermarkets, I paid £20 a kilo for Cod vs £12 in Tesco. For this I got full boned fillets which I could cut up myself. When you cut from the thick end the fish is so good like eating a fillet steak in some respects.

Used to get a lot of Salmon from them as well, but that's gone from being very good to average over the last year, also the price is mental now £24 a KG vs £5.50 in Tesco.

Monkfish has also gone mental, my dad told me in the 70's fisherman used to throw these fish to seagulls as nobody wanted it, now its insane money, £20 per KG but by the time you have it filleted and portioned you loose 30% of the weight in waste, real shame as this is my favourite fish

So anyone else eat fish regularly or does price\ quality put you off?

I eat fish and chips now and again... With tomato sauce... That I keep in a cupboard.

Yeah I eat fish. I didn't used to be that into it, but since moving to a town by the sea I've gotten into it a lot more. It really is better when it's fresh.

There's lots of fried fish around like this, usually around $2.50. It's lovely and crispy on the outside, and fluffy and light on the inside, and it's been left to marinate for ages. Also lots of squid, usually barbecued, and it's delicious.

I had a run in with some dodgy oysters and was ill with the worst food poisoning I've ever had for about 10 days. I have been meaning to try frying some though.

I'm not much into crab or shrimp.

I have a couple of times gone fishing on a little boat, just using a line wrapped around an empty bottle. Usually go with a group, load up on booze then go out to sea, chucking fish onto the bbq pretty much straight out of the sea.

I don't touch any kind of seafood. Every time I've tried fish or shellfish I've felt ill. I was dragged to a 'world famous all you can eat' catfish café near Shiloh in Tennessee and whilst the others were gobbling down catfish like there was no tomorrow I struggled to get through two.

Cephalopods fascinate me but freak me out a little. I think I have an agreement with these scary sea monsters: I don't eat them or visit their deep domain and they don't eat me or come to the Shire.

Shrimp is awesome, foo.

As is squid. And the way you can disguise squid rings as onion rings and catch out your unsuspecting housemate.

I do have fish and chips, but more than often i have a bit a salmon.

I don't buy fresh fish, more frozen or cured.

I eat all kinds of fish, squid, prawn & shrimp too.

I make sure to eat as much oily fish as I can since my heart attack as it's very good for me (and everyone else really). So make sure you have sardines, herring, anchovies, salmon, trout, tuna* and mackerel.

*steaks/fillets rather than tinned as the process takes out the Omega oils.

It helps a lot that I live in a fishing town.

I can only really stomach white fish. Salmon literally makes me retch and any sort of shellfish.... no thanks.

Although I am intrigued by lobster and crab, but not served in the shell. I mean seriously, you don't have to skin a steak, do you?

My Mum grew up in Whitby so she loves all sorts of seafood. Strong memory of her eating winkles from the shell with a pin. Look a lot like bogies, they do.

You might like lobster and crab, DP. Try the claw meat as it's closer to white fish than the darker body meat.

As for mussels and oysters - every time I've had them my body has spent the night constantly reminding me that I've had them. Not just physically, but in my dreams too. Gah.

I don't mind prawns and also scallops, although my wife hates these so I don't have them very often.

I can't eat Lobster though, just can't bring myself to choose a live one from a tank and kill it. Odd as I don't have any issues about meat etc and where that comes from.

Love Whitby, we lived in Grosmont for a while until 1976, remember being that for the hot summer of that year.

I also dislike all shellfish. I like salmon though.

Pretty much what Kern siad.

As teenagers a friend and I once gathered a small bucket of mussels off the beach when we were drunk/stoned and boiled them up at his house. We ate most of them and became violently sick.

Not had them since.

Not a fan of them at all, my companies head office is in Belgium and I travel with people who love them.

Sat at restaurant table with 3 others eating buckets of them does nothing for my appetite!

Generally any fish or seafood. Or pretend seafood (such as snails) are OK by me.

With 2 exceptions. Oysters and tinned fish.

Tinned fish is evil.

Even tinned tuna?

We used to have a 'Cockle man' who came round the pubs selling small pots of cockles, mussels etc.

I sometimes bought cockles after I'd had a few pints but would never have them sober. They'd often have a gritty bit in the centre and any flavour was overpowered by the vinegar they were drowned in.

Can't understand people who eat snails either.

Do you eat slugs too, Dave?

Especially tinned tuna.

I tend to eat fish once or twice a week, price permitting. Being in the city affords us certain luxuries as well, so I can get sushi for lunch from Itsu at a reasonable price (usually under £5).

At home, we tend to keep it simple and buy whatever is on offer on Ocado. They have a bag of 5 individually wrapped salmon fillets for less than £10 (600g) which we freeze, and do offers on prepackaged fillets of sea bass, sea bream, haddock, cod, etc. for around £5 (200-400g depending on the fish) which usually comes with a sachet of sauce or butter. With some greens and potatoes, it's usually enough to feed Gary and I dinner.

I have never seen then for sale.

I'll do you a tub for £2.

Pretty much nothing fishy I don't/won't eat. Also snails.

If it doesn't have legs and lungs I won't eat it.

Frogs?

Probably.

Whuuuuut?

It tastes of nasty rotting fish. And stinks too.

It really shouldn't. I've never had any tinned Tuna that did.

We eat a lot of this as my son loves it with mayo. Always get the fish that is tinned with water as a pose to oil or Brine

It shouldn't stink though

The only fish I will tolerate is battered fish from the chippie.

Everything else can get to fuck.

Get in the sea... oh.

I eat most fish and try and eat some variety at least once a week.
Not a huge fan of shellfish and particularly dislike oysters.
I won't eat octopus or lobster on principal that I think a) octopus is a marvellous creature and b) lobsters are pretty bonkers as well. Once I found out that they basically don't age, they just keep getting bigger I thought, "hell, we should be researching the fuck out of them, not eating them"
Don't really like crab either

Bone Apple Tea!

Octopus eyes are pretty much the same as human eyes which is a lovely example of evolution solving a problem the same way twice.

Octopuses themselves are Agents of Evil and are Not to Be Trusted.

That stinks.

I love fish and I'd love to try oysters, never seem to have gotten around to it though.

I don't like fish with fins and stuff - except tinned tuna. Everything else is horrible. I do like shellfish though. Mussels in tomato, chilli and garlic sauce are lovely. I like scallops and prawns and things like that too. I can't stand crab though! Or oysters Had an oyster once, fresh from an oyster bed in France. It was vile and felt like it was trying to slime it's way back up my throat.

Perhaps it's because I didn't like fish when I was younger, it'd be battered or greasy or rubbery and awful so I've never wanted to try it again. Various people used to insist I liked fish fingers, like it was something all children liked so I had to as well.