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Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: samintx
Date: March 27, 2012 06:57PM
During WWII we had salmon croquettes with cream peas and I loved it (canned salmon no ration points and about 25 cents a can). I know salmon is good for you but I almost want to heave when I eat it. Tonight I had seasoned cream chez wrapped in salmon and puff pastry. All I could do to eat half of it.

I have lime grilled salmon I pretty much swallow whole to finish the fillet. Fresh, fried or whatever...just isn't for me. Altho I can sanction raw salmon in sushi better than cooked.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: March 27, 2012 06:58PM
Maybe you're pregnant. grinning smiley


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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: $tevie
Date: March 27, 2012 07:01PM
That's just really hard for me to relate to, because I love salmon!


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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: haikuman
Date: March 27, 2012 07:04PM
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N-OS X-tasy!
Maybe you're pregnant. grinning smiley

ooops and how would Dan know . . . ?

Perhaps it relates to a bad Salmon experience devil smiley

But seriously salmon/fish not well cared for or prepared well can be nasty.
Try it wrapped in bacon *(:>* Or smoked . . .


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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: 3d
Date: March 27, 2012 07:12PM
Try it cooked rare. Is smoked salmon ok?
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: samintx
Date: March 27, 2012 07:17PM
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haikuman
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N-OS X-tasy!
Maybe you're pregnant. grinning smiley

ooops and how would Dan know . . . ?

Perhaps it relates to a bad Salmon experience devil smiley

But seriously salmon/fish not well cared for or prepared well can be nasty.
Try it wrapped in bacon *(:>* Or smoked . . .

Dan is a blabber mouth. Now the secret it out. Thanks a lot. Cereally, bacon might be good, turkey bacon I'll try that and some of the other suggestions. I've never had a bad experience with salmon that I know of. My daughters love it.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: lafinfil
Date: March 27, 2012 07:28PM


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/27/2012 07:30PM by lafinfil.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Thrift Store Scott
Date: March 27, 2012 07:29PM
I'm with you, Samintx- I've tried to like or at least tolerate salmon because I know it's good for me, but I just can't stand the taste of it. I have, however, found smoked salmon to be slightly less repugnant than other varieties, especially when each piece is buried under a pile of capers.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Go To Top
Date: March 27, 2012 07:31PM
Salmon Lox /Onions /Tomatoes /Cream Cheese /Bagel or Rye.

Or scramble it all in eggs.'

Yummy


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(Paul Valery)
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: space-time
Date: March 27, 2012 07:32PM
you need some good some wine to go with all that fatty salmon smiling smiley

cheers
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Racer X
Date: March 27, 2012 07:34PM
Hey, I live in Seattle. We have available some of the best salmon on the planet. But even I sometimes have issues with some salmon depending on how its cooked, or seasoned, or whatever. Sometimes it's a crapshoot.

I can tell you that at my sportsman's club/shooting range when we do impromptu fish fry nights, the little breaded salmon nuggets that get cajun seasoning are like crack-sprinkled salmon flavored donut holes to me. When I drive p to the range, and there is a deep fryer going in the parking lot, I get all sweaty and excited. yeah, that tasty. Like crack I tell you.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Bill in NC
Date: March 27, 2012 07:34PM
Smoked or wild salmon please, no dyed farm-raised.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: freeradical
Date: March 27, 2012 07:40PM
Combat Fishing for Salmon in Alaska...



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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Linda2
Date: March 27, 2012 08:01PM
I absolutely adore salmon croquettes. Why don't you try them with bacon bits sprinkled in the mix? So good that I actually dream about them when I haven't made any for a long time. BTW, if you use canned salmon, make sure it's red salmon. The pink salmon is pretty nasty.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: WHiiP
Date: March 27, 2012 08:02PM
Just needs to be grilled with a light dusting of sea salt and then served with a splash of garlic butter.

YUM!


Bill
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Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: March 27, 2012 08:14PM
I like it, but it is pretty iffy sometimes. Linda, what is your recipe for salmon croquettes? I bought a can of WalMart's GV salmon and it wasn't bad for canned salmon.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Chakravartin
Date: March 27, 2012 08:16PM
I don't usually enjoy salmon. I think it might be genetic. Like the genes that code for hating broccoli or enjoying alcohol. It usually tastes kind of like fishy, bitter spoiled milk to me.

Every once in awhile, tho, I'll be sitting at a restaurant table, a waiter will walk past with a stinky salmon dish and suddenly I'll be okay with salmon just for that night.

Weird.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: March 27, 2012 08:24PM
Childhood overexposure to foods definitely causes avoidance in an adult. I will only willingly each Zucchini if it's properly baked into bread, or sliced paper thin and fried so it's indistinguishable from bread. Much for the same reason.. it's all the damn garden seemed to grow for two years.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Grateful11
Date: March 27, 2012 08:31PM
There's very few types of seafood I don't like and so far I have yet to have a good piece of Salmon. Trying grilling it
and just didn't like the way it turned out.


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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: MacArtist
Date: March 27, 2012 08:35PM
I love salmon.

But I want to hurl when I think of eating mackerel.

My mom (divorced raising 7 kids) bought lots of canned mackerel. I hate it to this day.


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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: March 27, 2012 08:44PM
Canned mackerel is awful. When you go fishing or hunting, everything tastes good. Or so I thought. I couldn't eat canned mackerel.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: davester
Date: March 27, 2012 08:57PM
It could be just that you don't like salmon. However, there is a lot of unfresh, bland variety, overcooked salmon in this world and it could be that the place you live doesn't have access to decent and well-cooked salmon. Like all fish, it is critical to have the freshest fish you can get, preferably wild king salmon (though there are one or two farmed varieties like Loch Duart that aren't too bad), and for it to not be overcooked. If you're getting salmon in a chain restaurant like Red Lobster or the like, that just ain't gonna happen. There are a lot of parts of the US where the fresh seafood is unobtainable and the skills for cooking it are not in evidence.

For the record, I loooooooove salmon (fresh, wild, properly cooked that is).



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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: March 27, 2012 09:02PM
I had a sublime piece of wild king salmon a couple of months ago. Mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm!


RIP, Greg the DogSitter. You are missed.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: davester
Date: March 27, 2012 09:10PM
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N-OS X-tasy!
I had a sublime piece of wild king salmon a couple of months ago. Mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm!

The absolute best piece of salmon I ever had was a wild king that I bought off the boat just after he pulled in. I went home and barbecued it immediately. Heaven on earth!



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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Wags
Date: March 27, 2012 09:16PM
Here's my salmon story, slightly OT.

I was down at the coast with my former wife. Its about a 2 hour drive from home. As was our custom, we stopped before heading back and got some smoked salmon and a few other things to snack on while we drove back. Both of us were big fans of the local salmon, in all its various iterations.

Anyhow, about an hour into the drive back she turns to me a says, "I don't feel right, my tongue feels fat." Of course I immediately attribute this to hypochondria. OK, let's just say there was a historical basis for this, and I said, "Oh, you're fine. We'll be home in a hour."

Another 5 minutes go by and she turns to me and says, "Ew thwenk ews gwethen woosh, mewh tronghwth uhss swoolenght!" Then her eyes roll back in her head and she sort of nods forward. Meantime, we're out in the middle of nowhere, about 15 minutes past McMinnville. I flip a uturn in the middle of the highway and floor it.

We get back to the outskirts of McMinnville in about 5 minutes and miraculously see one of those blue hospital signs. I do a 4 wheel slide into the ER driveway and carry her in, screaming, "She can't breathe!" OK, she was still breathing, but barely conscious. They gave her a shot of something that brought her around, watched her for a hour or so, then sent us on our way. She slept all the way back.

A couple weeks later she went in to an allergy clinic to get tested. When they gave her a teeny hit of salmon she had such an extreme reaction to it she had to lay down for a couple hours before she could leave. Strange, because up until the incident on the trip we had eaten salmon often, with no problems. From then on she's had to carry around one of those injection kits everywhere she goes.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: davester
Date: March 27, 2012 09:23PM
I hate it when that happens! I bet that she refuses to cook you nice salmon dinners now.



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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: anonymouse1
Date: March 27, 2012 09:44PM
Strongly agree with the fresh, wild salmon point.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: billb
Date: March 27, 2012 09:53PM
I can't stand salmon, either.

Nor lobster.

Nor shrimp.

In fact if there are too many in a restaurant eating shrimp , I'll have to leave.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: iaJim
Date: March 27, 2012 10:06PM
I love most seafood, but I too have trouble liking salmon. My wife loves it, and she won't eat shrimp, or lots of other shellfish.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: bruceko
Date: March 27, 2012 10:16PM
being from Seattle I still don't like most Salmon.
I used to fish alot and if I caught it that day it could be pretty good.
these days my wife buys that farm raised colored Atlantic crap because it is Healthy for me. All I say is yuck.
I do seem to think that most of the store bought Sockey is pretty good.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Grace62
Date: March 27, 2012 10:24PM
I think it's fine not to like salmon. Until I moved to the Seattle and got the good stuff super fresh, I didn't care for it either.

Life is short, eat the healthy things (and occasional unhealthy things) that you enjoy and that make your taste buds smile.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: haikuman
Date: March 27, 2012 10:29PM
Gawd I love Salmon I could eat it 8 daze a week . I like it smoked, sauteed, grilled and especially raw.
The key is fresh well cared for fish. Using a paper towel to dry the fish also is important before cooking it.

My dad loved fishing but only liked to eat smoked fish.

Naturally if salmon or seafood doesn't work for you choose something else *(:>*


“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"The quality of Congress is not strained. It droppeth like a fetid cow patty from a bovine cloaca." cbelt
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: PeterB
Date: March 27, 2012 10:45PM
All the suggestions here are really good, especially the grilling aspect.

It does really depend on preparation-- there's a sushi place here that also makes a mean salmon teriyaki. They know just how much to cook it-- not too much, not too little. Their salmon as sushi is also quite excellent.

Look here for some recipe ideas: [allrecipes.com]



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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: lazydays
Date: March 27, 2012 11:00PM
My wife loves salmon and we have it once a week. I always use a rub to flavor the salmon and when I have time I like to smoke it. Having salmon every week does get a little tedious for me though so I will frequently add teriyaki to mine or put a little honey glaze on it.

I use the traeger salmon rub
[www.traegergrills.com]
and mix with their sweet rub
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Btw, when I smoke the salmon I use my brand spanking new traeger grill.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: March 28, 2012 12:11AM
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billb
I can't stand salmon, either.

Nor lobster.

Nor shrimp.

Life wouldn't be worth living.


RIP, Greg the DogSitter. You are missed.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: rich in distress
Date: March 28, 2012 12:48AM
Try cooking salmon with one aromatic spice... cilantro, celery, red bell pepper, any other kind of pepper... and just a splash of olive oil.


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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: freeradical
Date: March 28, 2012 12:49AM
Poach it. devil smiley
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: March 28, 2012 02:51AM
Don't like seafood. Never have. I don't hate it, either, but I never eat it. I agree that there must be a genetic aspect to it.

I do like cold shrimp with a good, spicy cocktail sauce, but the shrimp mainly serve as a vehicle to get the sauce to my mouth. Without the sauce - meh.

And lobster? I think people really like the butter, not the lobster!

And I like canned tuna. But I'm sure most seafood lovers would say that canned tuna is not seafood, so I am consistent there, at least. winking smiley
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: DP
Date: March 28, 2012 07:08AM
Fish tastes fishy. Some of it that I've had is good-fresh caught permit off the ragged Keys south of Turkey Point and put right on the grill-but that's it. There would be no shortage of some fish stocks in the world if it were up to me!
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: March 28, 2012 08:31AM
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Wags
Here's my salmon story, slightly OT.

I was down at the coast with my former wife. Its about a 2 hour drive from home. As was our custom, we stopped before heading back and got some smoked salmon and a few other things to snack on while we drove back. Both of us were big fans of the local salmon, in all its various iterations.

Anyhow, about an hour into the drive back she turns to me a says, "I don't feel right, my tongue feels fat." Of course I immediately attribute this to hypochondria. OK, let's just say there was a historical basis for this, and I said, "Oh, you're fine. We'll be home in a hour."

Another 5 minutes go by and she turns to me and says, "Ew thwenk ews gwethen woosh, mewh tronghwth uhss swoolenght!" Then her eyes roll back in her head and she sort of nods forward. Meantime, we're out in the middle of nowhere, about 15 minutes past McMinnville. I flip a uturn in the middle of the highway and floor it.

We get back to the outskirts of McMinnville in about 5 minutes and miraculously see one of those blue hospital signs. I do a 4 wheel slide into the ER driveway and carry her in, screaming, "She can't breathe!" OK, she was still breathing, but barely conscious. They gave her a shot of something that brought her around, watched her for a hour or so, then sent us on our way. She slept all the way back.

A couple weeks later she went in to an allergy clinic to get tested. When they gave her a teeny hit of salmon she had such an extreme reaction to it she had to lay down for a couple hours before she could leave. Strange, because up until the incident on the trip we had eaten salmon often, with no problems. From then on she's had to carry around one of those injection kits everywhere she goes.

the same thing happened to a friend of mine, at around 40 years of age. she had eaten all types of seafood up to that point.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: LaserKun
Date: March 28, 2012 08:50AM
If it is FRESH and crawls, swims, or otherwise lives in the swamp, river, lake, ocean, etc. - I like!
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Go To Top
Date: March 28, 2012 10:51AM
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mrbigstuff
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Wags
Here's my salmon story, slightly OT.

I was down at the coast with my former wife. Its about a 2 hour drive from home. As was our custom, we stopped before heading back and got some smoked salmon and a few other things to snack on while we drove back. Both of us were big fans of the local salmon, in all its various iterations.

Anyhow, about an hour into the drive back she turns to me a says, "I don't feel right, my tongue feels fat." Of course I immediately attribute this to hypochondria. OK, let's just say there was a historical basis for this, and I said, "Oh, you're fine. We'll be home in a hour."

Another 5 minutes go by and she turns to me and says, "Ew thwenk ews gwethen woosh, mewh tronghwth uhss swoolenght!" Then her eyes roll back in her head and she sort of nods forward. Meantime, we're out in the middle of nowhere, about 15 minutes past McMinnville. I flip a uturn in the middle of the highway and floor it.

We get back to the outskirts of McMinnville in about 5 minutes and miraculously see one of those blue hospital signs. I do a 4 wheel slide into the ER driveway and carry her in, screaming, "She can't breathe!" OK, she was still breathing, but barely conscious. They gave her a shot of something that brought her around, watched her for a hour or so, then sent us on our way. She slept all the way back.

A couple weeks later she went in to an allergy clinic to get tested. When they gave her a teeny hit of salmon she had such an extreme reaction to it she had to lay down for a couple hours before she could leave. Strange, because up until the incident on the trip we had eaten salmon often, with no problems. From then on she's had to carry around one of those injection kits everywhere she goes.

the same thing happened to a friend of mine, at around 40 years of age. she had eaten all types of seafood up to that point.

One day Honey Badger was eating a live python. When he ate the poison sac he passed out. When he awoke he continued eating snake with gusto.


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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: haikuman
Date: March 28, 2012 01:03PM
The biggest problem is the Dawg Salmon they bite *(:>*
But they never can sneak up on you because you hear them barking down stream before you see them devil smiley


“Stay Hungry Stay Foolish"
"There are only two mantras yummm and yuk "
"There is a fine line between a rut and a groove"
"The quality of Congress is not strained. It droppeth like a fetid cow patty from a bovine cloaca." cbelt
"I got to that part and I knew there was going to be some weapons grade stupid to follow"Lux Interior
"When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then
will you discover you cannot eat money."
~ Cree Prophecy




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/2012 01:03PM by haikuman.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: Bill in NC
Date: March 28, 2012 03:23PM
Love all those, can't stand the taste or even smell of canned tuna.

Want to love it because it is a cheap fish, but taste even in casseroles is just too strong for me.

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billb
I can't stand salmon, either.

Nor lobster.

Nor shrimp.

In fact if there are too many in a restaurant eating shrimp , I'll have to leave.
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: freeradical
Date: March 28, 2012 05:41PM
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Bill in NC
Love all those, can't stand the taste or even smell of canned tuna.

Want to love it because it is a cheap fish, but taste even in casseroles is just too strong for me.

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billb
I can't stand salmon, either.

Nor lobster.

Nor shrimp.

In fact if there are too many in a restaurant eating shrimp , I'll have to leave.

Add some capers to the dish...
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Re: Why don't I like salmon? I keep trying
Posted by: billb
Date: March 28, 2012 07:19PM
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Bill in NC
Love all those, can't stand the taste or even smell of canned tuna.

Want to love it because it is a cheap fish, but taste even in casseroles is just too strong for me.

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billb
I can't stand salmon, either.

Nor lobster.

Nor shrimp.

In fact if there are too many in a restaurant eating shrimp , I'll have to leave.

I can eat bumble bee solid white albacore packed in water in a gold can, but that's about it. If it smells looks or has the texture of cat food it's cat food. I'll eat it if I have to. I won't like it.

Fish is OK if it's not oily ( like flounder ) or Cod if it's a young one not caught after say May or June.
Scallops I used to pass on, but can eat if they are fresh.






My grandfather owned a fishing trawler so I ate lots and lots of all kinds of fish when I was a kid.
I got tired of it. I would dream of well done hamburgers........ :-)
I hated it then, didn't realize how lucky I was to have had so much really fresh fish until I was older.
Lucky and a little spoiled. Aged and spoiling fish really doesn't taste very good.
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