Best fish (for eating)

WTF NO BREAM

Out of these ones, it's gotta be something like Mackerel or Monkfish or Sea Bass...deffo not Salmon or Cod

Sorry, copied off a wikipedia list which bream wasn't on until I just added it.

I might vote mackerel myself. Really tasty and pretty cheap.

does shad include shad roe?

Just the fish itself. Otherwise I probably should've included sturgeon.

Mackerel would win my vote right now were it not such a terrible fish for the bones.

SALMON.
Second in line (on the line? roffle... not really) would be eel (Japanese style) but after seeing how it looked before it was sliced 'n' grilled: urgh.

going for cod, because i don't really like fish and it's the least 'fishy' in terms of strong taste. would usually only take battered with chips, though.

ha Trout, easy.

this is so hard... fish vary so much in terms of flavour. but then again there's so much on this list that i've never (knowingly) eaten

if including all varieties, tuna easy.

i mean it's hard to say that bluefine tuna is good for eating, since it is so overfished, but christ it's tasty.

swordfish mmm

Tough choice. Hard to pick between the local (catfish) and my favorite at the sushi bar (eel).

xxxpost, yeah, I've only had toro a couple of times but that makes it even tougher.

Swordfish.

Striped Bass, aka Rockfish.

i don't like tuna much since it reminds me of meat too much. :-( unless it's (almost) raw.
salmon wins every time: fishy orgasm

if you vote salmon or cod, you hate fish

if you vote anchovy, you hate life itself

i love skate too

if you vote salmon or cod, you hate fish

― POLLonius (country matters), Monday, March 16, 2009 4:19 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf at this. fish alt.

skate in a browned butter sauce!

if you vote anchovy, you hate life itself

― POLLonius (country matters), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:20 (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o man u so wrong

^what they said

lol ok i overstate things but anchovies are like kippers - they're fish when you want a savoury salty snack, not the luscious seafood aromas of a fresh catch

like a good piece of HALIBUT

have you had fresh anchovies at any point

xpost

Salmon is the winner because it's so versitile. It's the people's fish.

hmm...i'm a huge fan of sprats and whitebait (esp fried and devoured whole)...maybe anchovies are pretty much the same thing

I voted salmon right after I saw that second post, just because I bristled at it.

"if you vote salmon or cod, you hate fish"

i don't hate it. i love fish... in my mouth. esp salmon. i always think that if you pick tuna, you actually prefer meat over fish. THERE I SAID IT.

guys i want a plate of fish with a very summery salad and a glass of white wine, and maybe an empanada appetizer kind of thing

Going for Sea bass but actually what I mean by that is merluza negra which is sold as Chilean sea bass but is actually Patagonian toothfish.

i mean salmon and cod are NICE, esp fresh salmon...but they're a bit er tame and unfishy, also very default, y'know, blandly acceptable...i'm being very rockist about fish aren't i :(

on a more positive tip, seafood is the best!!!

are we eating this raw or cooked?

so glad i came around on seafood (used to hate it) - it was like NEW WORLD OF FLAVOR AND TEXTURE HERE STEP RIGHT UP

CM, dude, you're right. I know very little when it comes to fish. It's a cliche to pick salmon.

take food tips from the english and you've already lost, nath.

I don't give fuck from cliche. I went to high school in Alaska. Salmon 4EVA!

trout, esp rainbow, is a fine choice as well btw, maybe the best freshwater choice

http://www.elvincountry.com/travel-images/11707261.jpg

"I'm a grizzly bear, and I endorse this message."

I think I prefer trout to salmon, it's slightly subtler. (Smoked salmon rules supreme though, obv.)

no bluefish on the list is sad :(

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Salmon is incredibly fishy-tasting wtf, thats why a lot of people cant stand it. I hope by salmon, though, people are thinking salmon had fresh and grilled as cutlets etc and NOT canned salmon (which is fine, but should not be part of a fish poll).

I actually really like flake (shark) but thats a cheat - no bones, barely any fish flavour.

For an all-rounder I'm voting snapper. Red Emperor snapper from sparkling east coast aussie waters, cooked on the BBQ = bliss.

love haddock, salmon, cod if used right.

LOVE seafood so much it's untrue. got an amazing thai veggie/seafood/fish restaurant on my street where I ate tonight, unbelievably good salmon red curry and stuff, so good.

Sea Bass!

No walleye, no credibility.
Voting halibut.

voted for haddock. love it in fish & chips.

i'm so not a fishy-fish person, and a lot of the fish i do like are higher on the food chain and are overfished, contain loads of mercury, etc. i eat fish pretty rarely though.

boring old tuna for me

gotta be salmon

though raw tuna in sushi...

my two cats would also like to vote for tuna, btw.

has to be monkfish but an honourable mention for (fresh) anchovies

Sardines deserve rep too, esp good big fresh juicy ones cooked over coals and drenched in herbs and garlic, nom.

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no bluefish on the list is sad :(

― ian, Monday, March 16, 2009

^^^ this!

also things like tilapia or mahi mahi...super mild but much better than cod imo.

no votes for shark or skate make me :(

salmon is only ok to me -- it is best raw so i don't make it very much.

i ate shark for the first time last week.
Shark empanada from Caracas!

p.s. i am waiting on an anchovy/pepperoni pizza right now.

I'm prob wrong but i thought in Aus it's shark a lot of the time you order budget fish n chips?

also barra deserved votes

john dory

a strange man just knocked on my door to tell me "if you like fish, i'm just around the corner. I'm the fishman!"

anyone else have a fishman?

Ormskirk used to have 'Jan Jan the Fishman' who would travel from pub to pub just before kicking out time flogging cockles and crabsticks etc to the punters non of the landlords minded and he was a local hero, I once got a lift off him from the Royal Oak to the Buck'th Vine on a pub crawl.

Sadly he has now retired.

he wasn't a largish dude in a white overcoat? we had somone similar in Warrington, but I know he did quite the rounds in the north west.

use to love the crabsticks, or packets of twirls

He was Scandinavian had a white coat and wicker basket, used to announce himself with the words "Fresh Fish" even thouhg it was all preserved stuff ans packets of scampi fries, it was likely the very same chap.

in our local he used to get a rapturous welcome with everyone singing 'cockles and muscles', obviously the later he came the louder the singing.

Oh man fishman coming round the pub was about the awesomest part of a night out when I was a kid. Banks's Bitter + tub of cockles = High Life

I can only guess that none of you ever ate a fresh north sea sole meunière.

ta for that, Niles.