Pilchards are great - anyone who doesn't like them is a proper wrong 'un

[WouldBe]

this is from 2010 but it suggests we quite like fish compared to other western countries.

That's over a pound per week per person.

 

[8ball]

That's over a pound per week per person.

Includes oysters, whelks, squid and octopus, though.

 

[WouldBe]

Includes oysters, whelks, squid and octopus, though.

Traditionally fish is only eaten on Fridays. That's one heck of a portion of fish and chips.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

danny la rouge did and reported that even the Purveyor of the Pilchard Puff thought it was rank...

We all know danny la rouge is not a reliable witness on anything related to food.

 

[danny la rouge]

Traditionally fish is only eaten on Fridays. That's one heck of a portion of fish and chips.

“Traditionally fish is eaten on Fridays” =/= “Traditionally food is only eaten on Fridays”.

 

[Elpenor]

Traditionally fish is only eaten on Fridays. That's one heck of a portion of fish and chips.

Sort of proves my point, as a very general rule British people eat battered white fish which has no bones, served with chips and don’t like “fishy fish”!

 

[WouldBe]

“Traditionally fish is eaten on Fridays” =/= “Traditionally food is only eaten on Fridays”.

I know. But a pound of fish per week still seems a lot.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I know. But a pound of fish per week still seems a lot.

Thats probably only a box or two of fish fingers - I could definitely get through that each week although I've not had any for years.

 

[danny la rouge]

Thats probably only a box or two of fish fingers - I could definitely get through that each week although I've not had any for years.

There’s your next breakfast! Two boxes of fish fingers.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

There’s your next breakfast! Two boxes of fish fingers.

When I used to buy them I'd cook a box at a time so its entirely feasible.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Fish finger and potato waffles (as the bread) - lovely stuff.

 

[Elpenor]

When I used to buy them I'd cook a box at a time so its entirely feasible.

Before or after you moved onto eating a dozen eggs at a time?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Before or after you moved onto eating a dozen eggs at a time?

Well, I could have some boiled eggs with the fishfingers I suppose.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

I know. But a pound of fish per week still seems a lot.

before i went veggie i used to eat, weekly, a box of fishfingers, 1 portion of fish and chips, 4/5 tins of mackerel, a tub of jellied eels, and occasionally even more than that. I never really considered myself a big fish eater but i probably ate getting on for the national average of sea food.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I am suspicious as to that being a meaningful average figure. I suspect there are just some people who eat an entire tuna every week.

 

[RubyToogood]

A pound of fish isn't really all that much over a week, when you think that a pound is about one big baked potato or 3-4 apples, and fish is probably heavier. You could account for that by having 1 large cod and chips and maybe a tin of tuna in a week.

Our consumption of fish is probably heavily boosted by it being our most common traditional takeaway food.

 

[8ball]

A pound of fish isn't really all that much over a week, when you think that a pound is about one big baked potato or 3-4 apples, and fish is probably heavier. You could account for that by having 1 large cod and chips and maybe a tin of tuna in a week.

Our consumption of fish is probably heavily boosted by it being our most common traditional takeaway food.

I think a pound of potato and a pound of fish are probably very similar in weight, if not exactly the same.

What with potatoes and fish sharing a fair chunk of evolutionary history in common…

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I think a pound of potato and a pound of fish are probably very similar in weight, if not exactly so.

no, fish are weighed in pounds avoirdupoisson

 

[8ball]

no, fish are weighed in pounds avoirdupoisson

The difference between that and the avoirdeterre scale is small fry.

 

[dessiato]

I know. But a pound of fish per week still seems a lot.

We usually eat that, fish is our main source of protein.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

no, fish are weighed in pounds avoirdupoisson

You should be ashamed of yourself for that.

 

[dessiato]

You should be ashamed of yourself for that.

Put him in his plaice

 

[likesfish]

you can probably walk from the old inner german border to the rhine on decompinsing tins of pilchards buried by BAOR they were in ten men ration packs never met anyone who liked them even royal marines who found something perverted to do with tins of sausages had nothing to say about pilchards!

 

[danny la rouge]

no, fish are weighed in pounds avoirdupoisson

Everyone knows fish scales are different.

 

[RubyToogood]

I think a pound of potato and a pound of fish are probably very similar in weight, if not exactly the same.

What with potatoes and fish sharing a fair chunk of evolutionary history in common…

I meant the fish is a bit denser than the veg obv
Less bulky.

 

[not henry]

Nobody has pointed out (or I have missed the post) that sardines pilchards etc. are all different sizes and recipes for herring. Herring itself is a wonderful fish (chust sublime; P Handy) and as i worked my way up the west coast of Scotland camping, would be able to buy these and breakfast on them.

 

[8ball]

Nobody has pointed out (or I have missed the post) that sardines pilchards etc. are all different sizes and recipes for herring. Herring itself is a wonderful fish (chust sublime; P Handy) and as i worked my way up the west coast of Scotland camping, would be able to buy these and breakfast on them.

Recipes?

 

[not henry]

Recipes?

Simply split them and fry. if you buy them cleaned and filleted coat in oat meal and fry.

 

[8ball]

Simply split them and fry. if you buy them cleaned and filleted coat in oat meal and fry.

Does that recipe turn a herring into a sardine or a pilchard?

 

[not henry]

Does that recipe turn a herring into a sardine or a pilchard?

No packing them tightly into containers does that