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I just saw what an actual monkfish looks like…

79 replies

MillyGoat · 04/12/2024 05:57

… and found out it’s also a bottom feeder, I don’t think I can ever eat it again. 🤮

What have you found out that, years after you started doing or eating something you liked, has put you off forever??

OP posts:
CalicoPusscat · 04/12/2024 06:32

I am not going to google

rockingbird · 04/12/2024 06:34

Wow I googled it 🤢

SallyWD · 04/12/2024 06:37

Someone told me that the cow's milk we drink is 25% pus, because they are so over-milked their udders are covered in scabs and pus. Made ne question why were drinking the breast milk of another animal, designed for baby cows. I drink oat milk now!

TimeForATerf · 04/12/2024 06:38

Did you also learn that it’s only the tail you eat, so the big ugly head and body is not what you eat?

NINP · 04/12/2024 06:39

Cow’s milk isn’t pus - that’s a militant vegan myth. We drink it as it’s so very nutritious.

AlbertCamusflage · 04/12/2024 06:45

I don't think being a bottom feeder is a problem. It's not actual bottoms. But, yes, they aren't really lookers are they.

Years ago I thought tuna must be small because they come in a can. I still feel that they should be small and get briefly surprised whenever I see that they are not.

Devilsmommy · 04/12/2024 06:47

SallyWD · 04/12/2024 06:37

Someone told me that the cow's milk we drink is 25% pus, because they are so over-milked their udders are covered in scabs and pus. Made ne question why were drinking the breast milk of another animal, designed for baby cows. I drink oat milk now!

I've been saying this for 20 years. Been on soya that long. The stuff in cows milk is horrifying 😬

EVHead · 04/12/2024 06:48

Haggis

Black pudding

🤢

Deathraystare · 04/12/2024 06:49

@AlbertCamusflage
I thought that as well! That is until I saw one on the tv and thought it was a shark!!!

Rainbow321 · 04/12/2024 06:50

I looked , because I've never eaten it . It's a ugly bugger !

MiddleClassWomanOfACertainAge · 04/12/2024 06:54

Monkfish.......mmmmm....delicious.

MrsSethGecko · 04/12/2024 06:58

When I was younger we had a fish van at our local market and the fishmonger would set up big monkfish heads along the front of the display. Then when people walked past he'd pull a tendon or something in the heads and make the jaws snap.
I loved it but my mother was terrified.

Shardlake63 · 04/12/2024 07:02

It won't win any beauty contests, that's for sure! Very tasty though.
Quite a lot of the things we eat are not especially pretty though when you think about it.🙂

rzb · 04/12/2024 07:08

TimeForATerf · 04/12/2024 06:38

Did you also learn that it’s only the tail you eat, so the big ugly head and body is not what you eat?

Monkfish cheeks are delicious.

Jostuki · 04/12/2024 07:12

Deathraystare · 04/12/2024 06:52

Anarhichas-lupus-Atlanterhavsparken - Atlantic wolffish - Wikipedia

I remember Ester Rantzen on tv showing people a 'Scarborough Woof' and people recoiling!

You've reminded me of when she got arrested

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MillyGoat · 04/12/2024 07:14

rzb · 04/12/2024 07:08

Monkfish cheeks are delicious.

Yes I know it’s the tail, now I’ve seen the fish I realise why it’s so much meatier than others! It’s like the bulldog of the ocean floor!

OP posts:
Twattergy · 04/12/2024 07:15

I love how ugly it is!!! Nature is cool.

BunfightBetty · 04/12/2024 07:17

Devilsmommy · 04/12/2024 06:47

I've been saying this for 20 years. Been on soya that long. The stuff in cows milk is horrifying 😬

Yes, and when we have a baby and get mastitis, we’re advised to let the baby carry on feeding, in the knowledge they’re drinking our pus and blood 🤮 It turned my stomach at the thought I’d let my newborn do that, but it seems it’s medically ok to do so, so I guess that’s why it’s ok with cow’s milk 🤷‍♀️

RedRobinGoesBobbing · 04/12/2024 07:18

Most of the fish that we eat are bottom feeders (cod, haddock, sole, plaice,halibut,bass)

RedRobinGoesBobbing · 04/12/2024 07:20

Mine was finding out what they do to male chicks in the egg industry. Big old blender or gas chamber.

TheYeaSayer · 04/12/2024 07:21

I think they’re cool!
Why does it matter what they look like alive if it’s dead, cut up and cooked before you eat it?

Thevelvelletes · 04/12/2024 07:22

Shardlake63 · 04/12/2024 07:02

It won't win any beauty contests, that's for sure! Very tasty though.
Quite a lot of the things we eat are not especially pretty though when you think about it.🙂

Some people only eat the ugly animals and can't do the cute ones.

TheYeaSayer · 04/12/2024 07:23

I don't think being a bottom feeder is a problem. It's not actual bottoms.

🤣🤣

BetteDavisChin · 04/12/2024 07:24

What happens to male chicks?
What do you mean gas or blender?
Omg I've just googled it!
I had no idea!
So cruel and unnecessary 😪

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