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Where I am, most restaurants post prices, but I was walking with a friend past a restaurant that had a grilled fish displayed under glass with no price. ‘How much,’ I asked. ‘Zis feesh only $27.’
My friend said, ‘I know where we can get a big plate of fish, more than this, for $2.99.’ ‘But zis is ze fresh sea bass. It is not ze cheep feesh.’ My friend answered, ‘Fish is fish.’ All over the world, fish is mislabelled, since most people pay for the name. When it’s time for eating, ‘fish is fish’. And now, starting with Europe, ‘quadruped meat is quadruped meat’.
I’m sure you’ve heard that croc tastes like chicken, x tastes like chicken, etc. Well, tilapia tastes like everything. :-|
I sometimes pick up frozen fish with the ambiguous " fish from …" instead of its bloody name. Never mind mislabelling, here they sometimes don’t bother with a label at all.
Passive subjunctive of “screw”. Visitor to Boston asks the taxi driver, “Do you know where I can get scrod?” Taxi driver says, “You rarely hear the passive subjunctive…”
A couple of years ago, a woman went to aan expensive local restaurant and ordered grouper. When the meal arrived, she said it didn’t taste like grouper. The waiter assured her “It is definitely grouper, it says so on the box.” She said “Box? My fish shouldn’t come from a box.” I think it came from Thailand. This launched DNA fish testing all around here. Most often mislabeled are snapper and grouper. Most correctly labeled is salmon.
According to veteran Ohio cartoonist Stahler, the most satisfying part of his job is "those days when I can load my ink cannon with fodder faster than I can fire it."
Small World by Tom Briscoe
Scott Stantis by Scott Stantis
Comments (25) (Please sign in to comment)
braindead08 said, 4 months ago
The unregulated free market in action.
Radish
said, 4 months ago
Whatever they can get away with.
Michael wme said, 4 months ago
Where I am, most restaurants post prices, but I was walking with a friend past a restaurant that had a grilled fish displayed under glass with no price. ‘How much,’ I asked. ‘Zis feesh only $27.’
My friend said, ‘I know where we can get a big plate of fish, more than this, for $2.99.’
‘But zis is ze fresh sea bass. It is not ze cheep feesh.’
My friend answered, ‘Fish is fish.’
All over the world, fish is mislabelled, since most people pay for the name. When it’s time for eating, ‘fish is fish’.
And now, starting with Europe, ‘quadruped meat is quadruped meat’.
omQ R said, 4 months ago
I’m sure you’ve heard that croc tastes like chicken, x tastes like chicken, etc. Well, tilapia tastes like everything. :-|
I sometimes pick up frozen fish with the ambiguous " fish from
Clark Kent said, 4 months ago
Become a Vegetarian or even a Vegan. Why should we murder cattle, hogs, chickens, fish, etc to cook and eat them?
Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago
@Clark Kent
I’m a vegan. And I eat meat because it’s tasty.
Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago
@Clark Kent
Tell me again how come you never reproduced?
ossiningaling said, 4 months ago
@Ms. Ima
If you eat me you are NOT a vegan
Jon Ormsbee
said, 4 months ago
The fine retailers of fish in Boston decided the name ‘whatever’ was not descriptive of the catch, so they call it ‘scrod’.
lonecat said, 4 months ago
@Jon Ormsbee
Passive subjunctive of “screw”. Visitor to Boston asks the taxi driver, “Do you know where I can get scrod?” Taxi driver says, “You rarely hear the passive subjunctive…”
DrCanuck said, 4 months ago
This fish scandal is off the scales.
Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago
A couple of years ago, a woman went to aan expensive local restaurant and ordered grouper.
When the meal arrived, she said it didn’t taste like grouper.
The waiter assured her “It is definitely grouper, it says so on the box.”
She said “Box? My fish shouldn’t come from a box.”
I think it came from Thailand.
This launched DNA fish testing all around here.
Most often mislabeled are snapper and grouper.
Most correctly labeled is salmon.
zekedog55
said, 4 months ago
@DrCanuck
For gills and buoys alike, by crackey! Har!
Uncle Joe said, 4 months ago
Parts is parts…
Uncle Joe said, 4 months ago
@Michael wme
“And now, starting with Europe, ‘quadruped meat is quadruped meat’.”
What a brave new world we live in! Next it’ll be meat is meat… quadruped, biped… whatever, I’ll take a pound & a half of the soylent green, please..