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re: How do you feel about LA restaurants that serve basa catfish?
Posted on 11/12/16 at 2:19 pm to I am GLORIOUS
Posted on 11/12/16 at 2:19 pm to I am GLORIOUS
No thanks....no swai, tilapia, basa or imported shrimp for me. Domestic seafood producers need my dollars. Not frequenting cheap ACE fish joints or chains that sacrifice quality and local producers on the altar of profit.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 2:29 pm to hungryone
tonys seafood in baton rouge has great FRESH catfish..
Posted on 11/12/16 at 3:16 pm to I am GLORIOUS
Hymels and nobiles both use basa. And both are fricking awesome
Posted on 11/12/16 at 3:19 pm to GregMaddux
I used to really like them both, but since they've switched, I refuse to go to either one.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 3:27 pm to I am GLORIOUS
I understand the anti-basa stance. But I like it. It's just as good.
Mainly just wanted to shoutout to the two best fried fish joints I know of.
Mainly just wanted to shoutout to the two best fried fish joints I know of.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 3:29 pm to I am GLORIOUS
As I understand, Mississippi legislature passed a law a few years back that states you must display a sign telling the public where your catfish comes from. This was pushed by the MS catfish industry and makes perfect sense to me. Most catfish restaurants I have been to have a sign somewhere around the cash register provided by the vendor saying something like "We proudly serve Simmons Catfish". or at least, "Proudly serving Delta Catfish"
The bulk frozen fillets you buy at Sam's clearly show the vendor here also. In our area, they are almost always a MS delta processor.
I like the clean flavor of farm raised and would rather eat Mississippi Farm raised catfish than river catfish, but I'm sure that is just me. To me, most river catfish has a muddy aftertaste and to me, the Asian catfish has an aftertaste like Asian body waste.
Off topic, but Chinese crawfish has a muddy ditch taste to me. Something about the idea of harvesting my crawfish tails from a ditch in China turns me off because I know what is in their ditches over there.
The bulk frozen fillets you buy at Sam's clearly show the vendor here also. In our area, they are almost always a MS delta processor.
I like the clean flavor of farm raised and would rather eat Mississippi Farm raised catfish than river catfish, but I'm sure that is just me. To me, most river catfish has a muddy aftertaste and to me, the Asian catfish has an aftertaste like Asian body waste.
Off topic, but Chinese crawfish has a muddy ditch taste to me. Something about the idea of harvesting my crawfish tails from a ditch in China turns me off because I know what is in their ditches over there.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 4:18 pm to I am GLORIOUS
I have to question anyone who states that "you cannot taste the difference." The taste is night and day different in a bad way. It is an oily fish as well. Any place that serves this or "white fish" instead of catfish is simply doing it as a cost savings.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 5:01 pm to MeridianDog
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Something about the idea of harvesting my crawfish tails from a ditch in China turns me off because I know what is in their ditches over there.
I feel the same way sometimes about south Louisiana crawfish from ponds filled with runoff from chemical plants and rice field fertilizers.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 5:13 pm to 81Tiger
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ponds filled with runoff from chemical plants
Please tell us more about this chemical plant runoff.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 5:54 pm to Nawlinsboyinbossier
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Any place that serves this or "white fish" instead of catfish is simply doing it as a cost savings.
Exactly.
And people are telling me that I can't taste the difference between fresh catfish from Tonys and a frozen basa fillet?
Posted on 11/12/16 at 11:16 pm to I am GLORIOUS
Friends don't serve friends basa swai tilapia. If they serve this to you they are not your friend! Nasty! I would close before I served anyone that crap. If you want to serve that crap then call it what it is. Don't make me ask you if you serve REAL catfish or the fake shite. Don't make your waitress or waiter look like a dumb arse when I ask them if this is American catfish or not. Um well I think so. Lying through their teeth. There should be a fine for lying about what you serve period.
This post was edited on 11/12/16 at 11:17 pm
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