So, is this marketing of Carp gonna work?

if done correctly. sure.

Tilapia, Sea Bass, even Catfish owe their success in large part to marketing.

It's nasty. I've had it and I won't have it again.

I don't eat sea bass either because it is the same as striped bass and I don't care for it.

Tilapia only in a pinch and forced upon.

I will eat Mississippi catfish though. I think they have really gotten better over the years. Not near as good as wild Amite River catfish but nevertheless pretty good.

Pretty much anything Phillipe touches turns to shite over a not so long period of time.

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I think people will be eating carp long before they're wearing nutrias.

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uh.. they were wearing nutria for a long time...

And I'm sure over the years lots of poor Asian people ate the carp. But the question is whether consumers today will buy those things, not whether their ancestors a hundred years ago did.

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It's nasty

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So it didn't taste like crab or scallops?

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Phillipe

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Parola?

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Saw a thing about this huge place in Omaha on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, whose house specialty was fried carp (big goldfish). They supposedly served tons of it daily.

Looked pretty damn disgusting.

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i saw that too....the thing was huge, and reminded me of a bloomin' onion. And yes, it looked gross. But, i also thought, "that would really sell in Louisiana at any half arse fry shack".

so does a lot of the crap that people eat at awful fry shacks across the state....greasy, salty, overseasoned shite. Season it, give it a sauce to dip, and pile on some mushy fries.

Not everywhere is churning out nice, crisp, lightly battered fresh seafood.

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Pretty much anything Phillipe touches turns to shite over a not so long period of time

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But just look at what he did for the nutria market....It's what makes Johnny's Pizza Famous.

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I mean a lot shite we eat was once considered trash.

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True, when I was a kid redfish were considered trash. I think most of the problem with carp is it's too boney. But if a processor is gonna filet it and it tastes OK fried and it's cheap, it might sell.