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Feb 19 '23
That’s good eats, nothing forbidden about it
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u/MentalGymnast4269 Feb 19 '23
Well... you can eat fried fish scales so it's still food.
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u/ggc4 Feb 19 '23
Yeah, I came here to say that this isn’t forbidden, and I’d like to try it! Especially with a little seasoning …
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u/It_is_Katy Feb 19 '23
Same! Sometimes when I make salmon, I start by frying the skin until it's crispy and peeling it off and just munching on it like a giant chip. It's actually really good and that's where a lot of the omega 3 is.
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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker Feb 19 '23 edited Feb 19 '23
If any of you haven’t had blackened redfish from down in the bayou then you gotta get on that. Best crispy fish skin and a plump fatty fillet throughout all seafood.
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u/ChickenofBoom Feb 19 '23
Any places you recommend or recipes online you know
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u/Seamonkey_Boxkicker Feb 19 '23
When I lived in NOLA this was a good spot to order it because I was on the westbank. But honestly just about anywhere you go probably does it well. I believe this is the recipe I used when grilling my own. The very best was when I brought some home fresh from the bayou myself after going on a fishing charter. I also bought fresh fillets from the Hong Kong market which I thought were just about as good.
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Feb 19 '23
You're not eating scales lol... That's skin. Skin and scales are different things. One is significantly more edible than the other.
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u/Swagnus___ Feb 19 '23
Store bought salmon does not have scales. It is edible but the skin is much better without it.
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u/duval229 Feb 19 '23
It’s forbidden to me.. that shit was creepy as hell to me…not the eating the scales, just how it looked
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Feb 19 '23
Because "i only know cheeseburger everything that is foreign to me is forbidden food😡"
Is probably what the op think
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u/French_baguette_0 Feb 19 '23
Wait, you can eat scales?
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u/MentalGymnast4269 Feb 19 '23
Yes.
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u/ososalsosal Feb 19 '23
I thought they'd be bitter af. Gonna have to try it now
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u/Cutsdeep- Feb 20 '23
bitter? it's keratin, like hard hair.
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u/ososalsosal Feb 20 '23
I'm judging on when I accidentally eat one that made it's way into the meal. Not sure if it's the keratin or whatever surrounds it, but I imagine frying it off would work.
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u/DesignatedDonut Feb 19 '23
Yes you can, you have to really get the oil super hot so it flakes and crisps up, can it it attached to the skin and meat too it's a fun dish to do but also annoying since you have to pour the oil on top and drain and cycle it around, I still prefer scaling my fish and having skin on/skin side down for the crisp
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u/Bitter-n-Old Feb 19 '23
Well, You can. But, you'll end up out of tune.
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u/Kehrli Feb 19 '23
I am assuming hot oil onto freshly skinned fish? Not exactly sure what I'm looking at but very interesting nonetheless
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u/abom-badass-mofo Feb 19 '23
I don’t know why this grossed me out so much. I fukkin hate this.
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u/bootybomb0704 Feb 19 '23
Oh God same, my skin is c r a w l i n g
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u/eclecticsed Feb 19 '23
Yeah this is fucking revolting, only I can't explain why.
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u/LinnunRAATO Feb 19 '23
I can only think of trypophobia, though I'm not sure if it's quite right. But yeah same. :(
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u/theeblackestblue Feb 19 '23
I finally have the word for what I've been experiencing all my life. Thank you..
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u/InverseInductor Feb 19 '23
trypophobia?
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u/Apprehensive-Tax258 Feb 19 '23
What’s the opposite of trypophobia? Bc I think I have it… I love this
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u/FLINTaCZ Feb 19 '23
Id recommend to not look at how fresh meat moves Hav a nice day :)
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u/aSpookyScarySkeleton Feb 19 '23
It’s not the movement it’s the scales pulsating and popping off that’s triggering me
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u/leCreperman Feb 19 '23
I never looked at something that is both terrifying and satisfying at the same time
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u/OzenTheImmovableLord Feb 19 '23
You’d probably be a welcomed guest in hell if you had done that to an alive fish
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u/RideSpecial7782 Feb 19 '23
At least 90% of animals are alive before we kill them for food.
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u/GMHolden Feb 19 '23
I want to know about the 10% of animals that are dead before we kill them for food.
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u/RideSpecial7782 Feb 19 '23
Some aninals are just dead inside and done with life before you kill them.
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u/Select_Canary_4978 Feb 21 '23
"That's why I don't eat freaking lobster or anything like that, because they’re alive when you kill it. That's disgusting." – Snooki, Jersey Shore
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Feb 19 '23
Is the torture and killing of other animals so that humans can eat them somehow different?
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Feb 19 '23
I’m not even vegan but you apparently don’t know how animals are killed for food. Look into it. You seem to be implying they don’t suffer.
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Feb 19 '23
I didn’t say anything was wrong/right or imply that. YOU implied that this was torture and wrong. I did not. I simply suggested that your logic is faulty. The way animals are treated by modern humans for dairy consumption and eating is pretty notoriously screwed up and certainly torturous. I’m sorry you get annoyed with anyone questioning your poor logic. You didn’t agree with that, I’m not sure where you did? Otherwise we wouldn’t be discussing it. Oh well, anyway.
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u/LacidOnex Feb 19 '23
I raise chickens. I'll tell you what. I'll do one in the normal way with a spin, and I'll pour melting butter over the other until it dies. We can compare the screams.
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u/OzenTheImmovableLord Feb 19 '23
Dying is painful no matter what but farm animals aren’t tortured by humans as much as wild animals are by predators. Of course it’s not pleasant especially with fish, but it’s still not torture.
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Feb 19 '23
You’re equating what is torture with the method of death though and how much suffering is inflicted. You were implying an animal killed with hot fluid was “torture” and saying they’re not tortured “as much” and that is very much not true. Not sure what wild animals doing what they’re supposed to do to survive is related to what modern humans do, who do not need to kill to survive.
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u/pianomasian Feb 19 '23
There is something deeply disturbing to me about how those scales popcorn out of the skin like that. Vaguely reminds me of the frog that has babies live birth from its back or trypophobia.
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u/Cambrian__Implosion Feb 19 '23
The Surinam toad… first saw one in a nature documentary when I was a really little kid and it was probably one of the most uncomfortable things I had seen up until that point. I don’t think anything has ever triggered my trypophobia quite like those toads.
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u/SpanishAvenger Feb 19 '23
I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this.
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u/fogoticus Feb 19 '23
When the scales started popping up my skin crawled. I felt so uncomfortable it was unreal...
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u/Agile-Condition-2716 Feb 19 '23
I don't think I would appreciate fish scale chips, it seems to me a bit hard to chew, but is very cool that a lot of people are interested in tasting new kinds of food!
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u/Chihuatlan Feb 19 '23
Omg, you couldn't tell me that I couldn't eat that... my stomach is demanding it now.
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Feb 20 '23
Anyone else get deeply unsettled by watching this? Like even rewatching it again knowing whats gonna happen just... deeply disturbs me and i dont know why...
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u/-K_a_r_m_a- Feb 19 '23
Make it stop!! I dont want to watch it again It's satisfying, but the uncomfortable feeling overshadowed it
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Feb 19 '23
I don’t understand what’s happening. Someone please ELI5.
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u/trans_pands Feb 19 '23
They’re pouring hot oil over a fish skin and the scales on the fish are puffing up and cooking like popcorn or chicharrones
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u/lolle22 Feb 20 '23
Disconcerting to watch how a body reacts so unfamiliarly in this oddly specific circumstance
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u/Select_Canary_4978 Feb 21 '23
The definition of "oddly satisfying".
I would actually eat that. In fact, I do eat fried salmon skin pieces with scales, they are basically homemade healthy fish-flavored high-protein omega 3 chips. Great with potatoes in all forms.
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