Weebray, I recently encountered the changing of a fish-name that frankly made my tummy turn. Was in a sushi restaurant in Las Cruces NM, and one of
my orders was 'snapper' nigiri. At least, that's what I thought it was; kind-of looked like snapper, but before I chomped into it one of the
non-English speaking 'chefs' pointed it out and mentioned the word, "Tilapia". I questioned in Spanish (not a Japanese person in sight) and then
asked the (I assume) manager. Yup, they were substituting Tilapia for red snapper!
First, Tilapia is a fresh-warm-water raised fish, most notably used for "cleaning the bottom of large commercial fish farm tanks", notably white bass
and striped bass farms in SoCal and Arizona... cleaning, as in eating the fish turds of the larger species, so once the bass are harvested, the
Tilapia crop comes next.
Needless to say, I returned my order, and won't be dining there again. |
"All you can eat for a dollah, not an houah !! You big boy, you go home now !"
