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There is a continuum of salmon.* At one end you have a salmon steak, cooked on an open fire after being pulled from the Columbia River earlier in the day (which I had years ago). Somewhere in the middle you have salmon in the supermarket deli or packaged in the freezer as filets. At the other end you have Chicken of the Sea canned salmon, which I had just now.

Ew. Maybe it was because my expectations were too high but it strikes me as the nastiest canned fish option. Words cannot describe it. It's a little like tuna--if tuna were grey and had bits of skin and bone in it.

*I expect this is the case with other foods--beef, pork, tuna, but in this case it was salmon.
 
Thanks brain, sleepy time is the exact time to get annoyed that over 25 years ago some people you wrote an ongoing star Trek fiction with decided to blow up your shuttle wile you were on holiday, because their team of a Soong type android, a Vulcan, a half betazoid half romulan, thought the only human character having a modified shuttle made them OP.
 
"Unforgiven" on Outlaw tonight. It really highlights how the brilliant thing about "Gran Torino" is, in that kind of film, for the last act, Eastwood's character is supposed to ride in like righteous vengeance and kill all the Bad Guys. So if you're used to watching Clint Eastwood films, you miss all the cues about what's going to happen and think they're just the big "he's getting ready to go kill all the Bad Guys" stuff.
 
Volpone said:
There is a continuum of salmon.* At one end you have a salmon steak, cooked on an open fire after being pulled from the Columbia River earlier in the day (which I had years ago). Somewhere in the middle you have salmon in the supermarket deli or packaged in the freezer as filets. At the other end you have Chicken of the Sea canned salmon, which I had just now.

Ew. Maybe it was because my expectations were too high but it strikes me as the nastiest canned fish option. Words cannot describe it. It's a little like tuna--if tuna were grey and had bits of skin and bone in it.

*I expect this is the case with other foods--beef, pork, tuna, but in this case it was salmon.
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I have always felt like an imposter, because I was born and raised in coastal New England... but I have never liked seafood. I can take canned tuna, or a shrimp cocktail, or a crab cake, but a big slab of fishy-fish? Or sucking the gross 'meat' out of a claw? It turns me off.

A nicely grilled swordfish steak is okay, because the flavor is mild rather than fishy. But I don't even like lox on my bagels (which makes me a traitor in NYC too, my adopted home). So salmon is a no for me as well.

But occasionally, I'll try something fishy just to see if my taste buds have changed. The last time I tried salmon, it was in a delivery order from my local diner, and it was a dry, rubbery, dark pink blob, about the size of a Roku remote. So I'm good for another few years...
 
Heathen! So, a related note: Being disappointed in canned salmon, when my initial experiences with salmon are further up the fresh continuum: My first experiences with tuna are canned tuna. So maybe fresh tuna is the Food of the Gods. And I can't definitively say that because I think...no, I was probably in my 30s when I first had sushi. Anyhow, I still would put fresh salmon above fresh tuna and canned salmon below canned tuna. That said, I lived in Hawai'i in my mid 30s and they have something called "poke'" there, that is generally raw cubed tuna with seaweed and soy sauce and it is so yummy. Especially after a day of trying to surf. (I learned to surf in SoCal and Oahu arguably has better surf but the locals don't want you at the good surf spots--and even if I found one it was still too crowded for my surfing skills. By the time I was ready to catch a wave there'd already be 3 people up on it and I had to let it go because I wasn't good enough to avoid crashing into someone.)
 
Never been to Hawaii (or surfing), but you've just put me in the mood to watch The Descendants with George Clooney.

Not much surfing in it, but lots of talk about locals/indigenous vs. non-locals...
 
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