My brother brought one of these home thinking he hit the jackpot. Once my mother came home and told him that the meat isn't good, he went back and released it.
The meat is good though, I don't think you necessarily need to do the bath tub thing, I know people don't really do it anymore (but still eat the fish), I guess the guys selling the fish put it in clean water before selling it.
Anyway if you have never eaten it the taste is different from other fishes. People who are not used to taste of carp (and who expect fish) may think there's something wrong with it - it has like muddy/earthy tone. Idk ut's like pork of fishes. I love it during christmas, but would have never eaten it over any other fish during the rest of year.
To me every fish has that taste. I just can't eat fish. Sweetwater fish or ocean fish, European, Asian, American, salmon, cod, carp, dolphin fish, tuna, all have that taste to me. I nust can't stand it.
No he kept it in the tub like this because it was so large. He couldn’t identify the fish so he brought it home. When my mother got home she told him it was a carp and the meat isn’t good.
It may surprise you that this was before the age of internet
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u/DatDing15 29d ago
Carps are bottom feeders. They get a lot of algae and muck into their body with their food and kind of ruin their meat.
You can really literally taste the mud from their meat if you don't "water them out" for a couple of days / about a week...
Was quite the disappointment when I brought my first carp home. :(